Subscribe now or renew your subscription. That’s why I decided to write this article.ĭon’t miss a single issue. I have worked on these guns for nearly three decades and have never seen complete disassembly instructions in print. The grinding of feed ramps and extractors, cutting coils off springs, and the like are similar issues.
For the professional gunsmiths, the ones you’ll see come through your shop usually have been tinkered with in some way as to make them inoperable. It’s a good design as proven by the similar S&W and very little goes wrong with it if not abused. Contrary to what is spoken on the gun forums by the uninitiated, the parts of this gun are not interchangeable with the S&W guns! Unlike the S&W guns, this pistol does not have a barrel bushing. Its engineering was loosely based on the S&W Model 39 and 59. 4 hours ago Manufactured from 1980 to 2000 in Budapest Hungary by the FEG firm, the 9mm Luger Model P9R pistol is a well-made, reliable, and very accurate pistol. However, the trigger on mine was not very smooth and it was very heavy. Vintage FEG Model P9R 9mm Pistol w/ 2 Factory Magazines. The P9R was very nicely finished and was fairly accurate, it was also very reliable. The P9R is a short recoil-operated pistol made with a strong and good quality frame, slide, and parts of alloyed steel. I had a P9R for several years, but I traded it for a Ruger P89. These instructions will generally apply to those models as well. 45 auto version was made with a single stack eight round magazine and marketed as the FEG ACK or GKK-45. You’ll also see these listed as the R9 or the Mauser 90DA. The P9R is the most common model encountered and will have either a fully rounded trigger guard or a squared back front, as is the example used in this article. The P9R, a full-size model which is the subject of this article, the P9RK, a short model with a finger-style front grip, and the P9RA model, a lightweight, aluminum-framed version which was imported in relatively small numbers. There were three distinct models in the series. The Hungarian P9R 9mm is a good quality DA/SA pistol manufactured by FEG (iiFegyver es Gazkeszulekgyar), now known as FEGArmy, and was imported into the United States in large numbers from the middle 1980s to the late 1990s. In effect, the barrel remains locked with the breech during recoil, which explains its curious profile.While the P9R looks like a Hi-Power clone on the outside, this Hungarian-made pistol is anything but on the inside. 32ACP), the Stop uses a peculiar three-lug rotating bolt long-recoil system with two telescoping springs located in a tunnel above the barrel. A relatively compact - 22-ounce weight, 6.3-inch overall length - semi-auto in 7.65x17mm Frommer Long (basically a spicy. Becoming the company’s business director, Frommer kept pushing forward with his own gun designs.īy 1910, Frommer had crafted his early masterpiece, the Stop (with some arguing the name alludes to its ability to “stop” a target). While at the company, he came up with some interesting early semi-auto pistols, filing his first of over 100 patents in 1899. (26) Beretta C89282 92FS/CX4 Magazine 30RD 9mm Blued Steel. However, during Frommer’s time, FEG was in the business of making small arms for the Honvédség, the Hungarian military. This product has an average rating of 5 stars out of 5 stars from 26 ratings. Rudolf Frommer started working with Budapest’s Fegyver- és Gépgyártó Részvénytársaság (FEG, now one of the biggest water heater makers in Europe) in the 1890s. These classic handguns are highly collectible, often brought back from Europe by returning GIs after the World Wars. The Frommer Stop was used by the Hungarian Gendarmerie as the Pisztoly 12M before World War I, then later by the Austro-Hungarian military, continuing to serve into WWII.