I've seen them at collector gun websitesites and online auctions and they are readily available between $300 and $500 dollars. It's a shooter, with no great collectors value really.
HISTORY OF ORTGIES PISTOL SERIAL NUMBER
The slide markings and relatively high serial number of our pistol, which is a 2XXXXX means that according to this article, my father's gun was made near the end of the manufacture of this pistol, which ceased in 1924. Here's a great article about the history of these pistols. In both wars they were used somewhat as officers guns from what I understand, and there were contracts with other governments who bought these over the years. He liked how it shot, and pretty soon Big John found him a good clean used version for cheap.īut before that, in his childhood, my father in his youth had seen older men who had brought these back from WWI and then later saw fellows just a bit older than himself bringing them home from WWII. My Father had a long fascination with this pistol because as a younger man, one of his good friends, Big John the hunter and shooter and collector of guns, had one. has taken a liking to the low recoil of this gun and has become quite adept at shooting it accurately since he's been spending a lot of time with it at the range. Yeah, the cartridge ain't the best for defense, but El Fisho Jr. At seven yards you can get nice aimed and point and shoot groups. There are lots of pages on the internets about these guns and what I've recently found out is what a good little shooter this gun is. The button grip safety does not pop back out like that on an 1911 once pressure is no longer being applied, but one must reengage the button to pop the grip safety back out in this instance. One interesting point about this pistol is that it has a button grip safety, meaning that the button on the left rear side of the frame "pops out" the grip safety, which then once depressed is engaged. In the 90's, although the finish has always been good on it, he had it completely refurbished as far as parts goes and for all practical purposes it's a brand new gun. He bought one sometime back in the seventies for probably less than $50 and carried and shot it for years as one of his favorite pistols to slip in his jacket pocket for the walk from his downtown Houston office to his car and vice versa. It's an interesting design, with not one screw in it. One of my father's favorite pistols was always his Orgties.
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