Roth Theodorovic Prototypes: From Very Awkward to Mostly Ungainly
Semiauto Pistols
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Today we are going to take a looks at a series of six prototype Roth Theodorovic pistols. These were a design that competed in Austrian pistol trials around the turn of the century, and eventually lost out to the Roth Krnka (adopted as the Roth-Steyr M.7).
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