INCREDIBLE FIALA GUN AND EQUIPMENT COMPANY MODEL 1920 .22 SINGLE SHOT PISTOL / RIFLE 3 BARREL SET WITH FACTORY SUPPLIED CASE AND ACCESSORIES

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WOULD BE HARD TO FIND A BETTER MORE ORIGINAL COMBO! INCREDIBLE FIALA GUN AND EQUIPMENT COMPANY .22 SINGLE SHOT PISTOL RIFLE 3 BARREL SET WITH FACTORY SUPPLIED CASE AND ACCESSORIES -- AS FOUND UNALTERED ORIGINAL GUN!



QUOTE FROM PROBOARD SITE FOR HISTORY AS FOLLOWS.

"Anthony Fiala was an Arctic explorer who also accompanied Teddy Roosevelt in the early portion of his voyage in the Amazon country. He went into the sporting goods business in his later life."

"These firearms look a lot like the semi-auto pre-Woodsman Colt .22rf, or the High-Standard Model B semi-auto .22rf. However these are a magazine fed single-shot designed as such by an adventuring explorer who didn't trust semi-auto actions in sub-zero climates where these guns most likely would be used. (He even used a polar bear as his company logo.)

The Fiala could be used as a regular target pistol or as either a pocket pistol or a combination riflepistol. With the regular 7 1/2-inch barrel the total length was 11 1/4 inches, with a sighting radius of 9 3/4 inches. The weight with this barrel was 31 ounces. By substituting a 2 3/4-inch barrel for the regular barrel one could have a pocket pistol with a total length of 6 1/2 inches, and the weight of this combination was 27 ounces. Or, if one desired the rifle combination, a 20 1/2-inch barrel could be had, together with an easily attached shoulder stock. The total length of this combination was 35 inches and the weight was 3 1/2 pounds. The interchange of barrels was very simple, as they were held in place by an easily removable thumbscrew located on the right side.

The pistol was chambered for the .22 L.R. cartridge. Specified data are as follows: bore diameter, 0.217 inch; number of grooves, 4; right hand twist; one turn in 16 inches; depth of grooves, 0.002 to 0.0025 inch; land width, 0.1024 inch; and magazine capacity, 10 cartridges.

The magazine is inserted in the "handle", a bolt lock is pushed in to release the breechblock slide which is drawn to the rear as far as it will go, permitting the magazine spring to push a cartridge up into position so that when the block moves forward the cartridge will be picked off and chambered. There being no recoil spring, the block is pushed forward by hand. When the action is fully closed the block is locked in position, so there is no danger of premature firing. After the shot is fired the block must again be unlocked and drawn back manually to extract the fired shell and pushed forward to insert the next cartridge.

This pistol was claimed to have an advantage over the single shot pistols, formerly popular for target shooting, in that both extraction and loading are easier and the arm is much safer than an automatic because a manual operation is required to load and unload it. It was also claimed that there was less distortion or damage to the lead bullet because the chambering of the bullet in an automatic pistol is violent compared to the hand chambering operation. Another important claim was that a higher velocity was imparted to the bullet because none of the energy provided by the explosion was used in the compression of a recoil spring and in the moving of mechanical parts.


 

Manufacturer: FIALA GUN AND EQUIPMENT CO.
Model: 1920
Barrel Length: 2 3/4. 7 1/2. 20 1/2.
Condition: ORIGINAL
Metal Condition: ORIGINAL
Wood Condition: ORIGINAL
Bore Condition: EXCELLENT
Barrels: 3 SETS INTERCHANGEABLE
Action: SINGLE SHOT
Stock: ATTACHABLE SHOULDER
Butt Pad: FACTORY PLATE

Price: $4,750.00