The Destroyer Carbine is a small bolt actioncarbine (usually) chambered for the 9 x 23 mm Bergman-Bayard cartridge, more commonly known as 9 x 23 mm Largo, and used by the Spanish Guardia Civil from the mid 1930s until the late 1960s. A bolt-action firearm is one that is manually operated (i. ... A carbine is a firearm similar to, but generally shorter and less powerful than a rifle or musket of a given period. ... Patrol boat, Nervion river, Bilbao. ...
Essentially a scaled down Model 1893 Mauser with two rear-mounted locking lugs and a mauser-style two-position flip safety, the Destroyer Carbine fired the same ammunition as the standard-issue police handgun and took the same magazines, however the longer rifle barrel resulted in much greater velocity and accuracy, and subsequently range. Mauser is the common name of German arms manufacturer Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensysteme GmbH, as well as the line of bolt-action rifles they built for the German armed forces. ...
While no longer in government service, the Destroyer Carbine is highly prized as a collectors item due to its rarity, as well as a desirable target rifle due to favorable shooting characteristics such as minimal recoil and relatively inexpensive ammunition.
SAFETY WARNING: While all rimless 9 mm diameter pistol cartridges will chamber in a Destroyer Carbine, and consequently will fire, it is EXTREMELY UNSAFE to use ammunition other than 9 x 23 mm Largo due to the dangers of excessive pressure. Some late-production experimental Destroyer Carbines were produced in other calibers such as .38 Special or 9 mm Parabellum and are even more highly sought after. ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ... . ... ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ...
The DestroyerCarbine is a small bolt action carbine (usually) chambered for the 9 x 23 mm Bergman-Bayard cartridge, more commonly known as 9 x 23 mm Largo, and used by the Spanish Guardia Civil from the mid 1930s until the late 1960s.
Essentially a scaled down Model 1893 Mauser with two rear-mounted locking lugs and a mauser-style two-position flip safety, the DestroyerCarbine fired the same ammunition as the standard-issue police handgun and took the same magazines, however the longer rifle barrel resulted in much greater velocity and accuracy, and subsequently range.
While no longer in government service, the DestroyerCarbine is highly prized as a collectors item due to its rarity, as well as a desirable target rifle due to favorable shooting characteristics such as minimal recoil and relatively inexpensive ammunition.
From markings on the carbine I have deduced that it was manufactured by Ignacio Zubillaga in Eibar some time around 1930 and brought into this country sometime prior to 1968.
I have found mention of this type of carbine in two old articles and interestingly enough, both mention that the magazine is missing on the specimen examined; there was no magazine with this carbine either.
The metallurgy and design of the DestroyerCarbine was not developed to handle the pressure of these rounds.
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