My friend found a single stack 9mm stainless steel pistol in his aunt's attic. It must have been belonged to the previous home owner. On the side it states "Catron", "9 mm", "Military and Police" and no serial # (manufactured without it). It has a fixed barrel and there is no play when you rack the slide. When retracting the slide only the rear portion of the slide moves in order to cycle the cartridge. It is missing the magazine and what would appear to be the safety. Has anyone ever heard of this pistol. If so, we need to see if we can get parts for it and try to determine it's value.
2007-10-18 15:27:10 · 4 answers · asked by So. Cal Man 3 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
It is definately "Catron". Possibly polished nickel. Magazine release is the same as a Walther p-38.
2007-10-18 15:48:16 · update #1
There was firearms designer named Russell M. Catron that made the "Catron" pistols, it would probably fit your description as that in the 1940's when he would have designed it, a serial number was not yet required. They also used their own proprietary 9mm Catron cartridge. Good luck on finding a magazine, you would probably be better off reverse engineering something else to fit it. This is definitely an oddball. Possibly since you say it resembles a P-38, if you had a magazine for one laying around, you could try to fit one in it.
I did read somewhere that Mr. Catron did experiment a little with automatic pistols, you may want to do a functions check on it to make sure it is semi-auto.
2007-10-18 17:41:16 · answer #1 · answered by Matt M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
probably a gun made by Russell M. Catron
that may be one of his prototype guns.
i tried to find you some more information.. but all i could find is this book by Warren H. Buxton, titled Russel M. Catron and his pistols.
thats the only Catron ive heard of in guns, and he made a few that looked like what you describe.
if you do happen to have a gun made by him its worth a mint. and if ur friend has it.. tell him its worthless and give him a $50 for it.
2007-10-18 23:04:02 · answer #2 · answered by drewhenderson13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Gunsmith.......Are you sure that it's a "C" and not a "P"
as in Patron? Are you also sure it's stainless steel and not polished nickel?
2007-10-18 22:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by JD 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Never heard of it. Sounds like a good reason to get to know your local gunsmith.
2007-10-18 22:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋