>Interestingly, this attempt at gun restoration popped up around the
>Internet:

Oh yeah, that's another Browning design (in some of the later photos you can see some similarities of the internal design, such as the barrel retention lugs), though it's a much smaller gun. The Vest Pocket automatics were .25-caliber, and despite the name I think they were mainly marketed to ladies as handbag guns. (Also sold in Europe as the FN Model 1905/1906, depending on the regional market.) Interestingly, despite not having Hammerless in their trade name, they actually were hammerless (striker-fired, you can see the striker in one of the disassembly photos there), unlike the Pocket Hammerless, which, as we have seen, was not hammerless. Ah, marketing. :)

As to whether it's fully reparable, he seems to be making pretty good progress, though he may hit a wall when it comes to some of the smaller internal components. He probably won't be able to make any use of the original springs, for instance, and I don't know offhand how readily available replacement spring sets for those guns are. It wouldn't surprise me too much if you could still get them someplace, though.

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