Unblinking Eye

Traditional darkroom photography and historical photographic processes

Gun pages

1907 Dreyse

Early slide at top and late slide at bottom. Note the different length of the strikers. The early slide at top has no cutout for the disconnector and has a hook at the front to hold the barrel bushing, whereas the late slide at bottom has the cutout for the disconnector and also has a hollowed out area to accept the later barrel bushing with the tab.

Copyright 2012
by Ed Buffaloe.