qsy-complains-a-lot: Sauce: YuriPasholok.LiveJournal.com; gun property of the Museum of National Mil
qsy-complains-a-lot: Sauce: YuriPasholok.LiveJournal.com; gun property of the Museum of National Military History in Padikovo near Moscow, Russia.Nagant revolver with removable axe/stockNagant M1895 revolver designed in Belgium by the Nagant brothers, then produced starting in 1898 by Tula Arsenal well into the days of the USSR. This particular gun is dated 1905 while the axe is from 1906.7mm proprietary round with extended brass, working in tandem with a forward-sliding cylinder, giving the revolver its unusual gas seal; 7-round cylinder, double action.The Imperial Russian military had tried, like many other, to make its service pistol into a carbine on a few occasions. The first one was the so called “border carbine” which was fitted with a regular wooden stock screwed in place of the gun’s grip panels, sometimes with a wooden forend protecting the extended barrel as well. The second time used a simpler removable stock and was designed for engineers, much like the so-called artillery Luger of WW1 Germany. The third and final time happened in 1905 when a “marine” variant was designed, by using a boarding/sapper’s axe as the stock.Beyond the dubious advantage of being able to use the abundance of boarding axes onboard ships to a soldier’s advantage, rather than have them carry an actual removable stock, Nagant carbines as a whole were not particularly popular for the simple reason that the Nagant’s 7mm round proved not lethal enough at carbine rage for active duty.Only the border variant would see some degree of serialized production, before the Great War put an end to such silliness. Only three sets of Marine carbines are known to remain today. -- source link