25s with no external safety, only an estimated 30,000 or so were made before they redesigned the guns and introduced the so-called triple safety model (Triple Surete). It turns out that FN did make a gun that was almost externally identical to a Colt VP using a style of safety allegedly designed by Browning and used on the Colt. I know the differences.Įverything else is deleted, 'coz it was all wrong and based on a 40+ year old lack of a very important piece of information.
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Please understand that the FN marked gun I saw was identical in EVERY respect to a Colt, not an FN 05/06. 32 FN 1910s, and having no resemblance whatsoever to the Colt.
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(Nope, wrong, it turns out there are three.) First variation (probably pre-WWI) with NO external manual safety of any kind and no magazine disconnect Second variation (which actually turns out to be a third), made until production ceased, with external manual safety and internal magazine disconnect very similar to those used on the. There are only two variations of 1905/06 FN. In fact, the only interchangeable parts are the extractor/pin/spring, the barrel, the striker/spring/spring guide, the trigger/pin, the connector (aka trigger bar), sear/pin, recoil spring/guide (pre Tansley safety models) mags and mag catch. Some small internal parts are also different, as well as the Tansley magazine disconnect. The grip safety is different as well as the sear spring and do not interchange. The slides are completely different and the manual safeties are completely different. There are some major differences and some minor differences. Parts will usually interchange.Ĭolt NEVER made guns for FN, or marked FN.įN made 1905/06s were NEVER identical to Colts (or vice versa, as the Colts came after the FNs.). Later ones were exactly like the Colt model. There were several versions of the early FN 25. Smug line removed and eating of crow substituted. The later, third variations have very obvious differences from a Colt. This second variation used an almost identical safety as used on the Colt VP, and the outward physical appearance was virtually identical to the Colt. 30,000 or so before introducing the "Triple Surete" (triple safety) model made until the final production in 1959 at over 1,008,000. Second edit: What I perceived to be an FN marked Colt turns out to actually be a very scarce (and previously unkown to me) second variation FN 1905/06. I dug out one of my Colts and the safety performs similarly to the FN, but the parts are still not interchangeable. LOL!Įdit: Regarding the 180 degree safety, Jim K was right: I was thinking of a Czech Duo. My surmise is that that Colt started producing FN marked guns after Belgium was overrun by the Germans in WW I, but this is only a guess.-And incorrect. It's the only sample I have ever seen, and another collector I talked to said he had also seen one. At the time, the guy wanted in excess of $200.00 for the gun which I thought was too high at the time. 25s, early ones that had only a grip safety and a later variation that had a manual safety very similar to that used on the 1910s and 1922s, a grip safety and a magazine disconnector.Īs I stated, EVERY detail was identical that that of a Colt. Prior to that, I was always aware of two variations of the 1905/06 FN. 25 that was identical in EVERY respect to a Colt 1908 V.P. 25s, some years back (in the 80s) a guy come into the shop where I worked and offered to me an FN. These things really are a disease ya know! :p Came out great, and back it went into the safe until a few years ago, when I decided to sell it.
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By that time, we had got into parkerizing, and I parkerized it.
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It had lost a lot of its finish and was pretty rough looking. Mine ended up sitting in the safe for a number of years before I refound it and decided to refinish it. The Brownings are cool little guns, and truly "little" guns. That was also the last time I used a hanky for a holster. I went the Seecamp route, he went with a Walther TPH. I guess all the stars aligned, and while he was lucky, and wasnt hurt, it was an eye opener, for both of us, and we both soon had something else. I did that up until my buddy, who also carried one, and in basically the same fashion, had his go off while bending over working in his garden. I normally carried it loaded, with the safety on. I carried a Baby for a number of years, usually slipped into a folded handkerchief in my back pocket.