- Fb radom model 35 caliber serial number#
- Fb radom model 35 caliber serial#
- Fb radom model 35 caliber manual#
- Fb radom model 35 caliber license#
Fb radom model 35 caliber serial#
Those made during German Blitzkrieg has non-matching serial numbers. Around 40 000 of Vis pistols were manufactured 1936-1939.
Fb radom model 35 caliber serial number#
Proof and quality marks and five digit serial number were stamped on the slide.
Radom", year of production, Polish Eagle, "VIS wz. 1935: Standard Polish issue Vis with decocker, take-down latch and shoulder-stock slot. Prototype version with no decocker and angled rear part of the slide. German Vis pistols were carried in a typical Nazi-issue holster with pocked for one spare mag. Vis was carried in a leather flap holster equipped with a pocked for two spare magazines and a cleaning rod. On the late German (Grade III and IV) versions which lack the take-down latch, the frame can be locked by pushing down the decocker until it catches a special notch cut into the hammer. The slide stop can then be removed, the slide can be unlocked and moved out of the frame. Vis is disassembled by moving the slide rearwards until it can be locked with the take-down latch. A shoulder-stock slot is located in the butt but no original Vis stocks were ever found (There are pictures showing a Vis with a Mauser stock attached). The left panel has a triangle with letters FB (Fabryka Broni) the right has a similar triangle with letters VIS. Grips are made of black, checkered plastic.
Fb radom model 35 caliber manual#
Take-down latch is located where Colt 1911's manual safety is usually found. When depressed, it draws the firing pin in inside its tunnel so it can't be struck by the hammer. The decocking lever is mounted on the slide. Magazine catch is located on the left side of the receiver, behind the triggerguard. Controls consist of a slide stop, a magazine catch, a decocker and a take-down latch. The finish of the Polish gun is rust-blue. Vis is made from carbon-steel although the frames of the first 3000 guns were made from alloy-steel. The forward movement continues until the barrel and slide are again locked together. Slide continues to travel rearwards cocking the hammer then returns stripping of a fresh round out of the magazine. When fired, the barrel and slide recoil together for a short distance until the barrel cam catches the lug in the frame forcing it down and unlocking it from the slide. It uses a cam-lug system of operation similar to that of Browning Hi-Power. Externally it closely resembles Colt 1911 but it's not a copy. Vis is a recoil operated, single-action pistol. Pistols were manufactured in Radom but were assembled in Steyr factory in Austria. Germany restarted the production of Vis in the middle of 1940 in co-operation with Steyr-Daimler Puch. Plans for this version were scrapped when Mors submachine-gun was developed. Trials were also conducted with a full-auto Vis equipped with larger magazines and a detachable shoulder stock. 45 ACP version was developed but never made it into production (it was shown to Argentinean officials in 1937).22 LR variant was also made, but there is no information available on the amount produced and the only known specimen is on display in Hungarian Army Museum in Budapest.
Production started same year and continued until the fall of Poland in September of 1939.Ī. In 1936 the pistol was adopted by the Polish military as Vis wz. At Department of Cavalry request a decocking lever was added and a first production run of around 30 pistols was made between 1932-33. At the same time the name was changed to Vis (Latin for "Power"). The pistol went through tests in which over 6000 rounds were fired showing high reliability and accuracy. 1931 (it was Skrzypinski who suggested the acronym WiS: Wilniewczyc i(and) Skrzypinski). Wilniewczyc was later joined by Jan Skrzypinski, director of "Panstwowa Fabryka Karabinów" (State Rifle Factory) in Warsaw. It was accepted and plans for manufacturing the Czech gun were scraped. Piotr Wilniewczyc, an employee of "Panstwowe Wytwórnie Uzbrojenia" (State Arms Factory), presented preliminary plans for a pistol of his own design. Since the price was high (250 000 US$) and the pistol in question was not a very successful design, the decision met with justified opposition from the firearms industry.
Fb radom model 35 caliber license#
The history of the Vis started in 1929 when the Polish army decided to purchase a license for Czech vz-28 pistol (a modified vz-24, itself based on a Mauser design).
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