Wof Ultramatic CDNN ???

[brendog10]

I was looking through the Fall CDNN catalog & came across an add for a Wolf Ultramatic. Apparently they are high quality Austrian pistols. The thing that confused me was that the add states that they are For Collection purposes only,Not to be fired. Can anyone explain why that is?

[Vin496]

What I can gather is that these were not reliable at all, and prone to failures, after as little as 1000 rounds.

CDNN is probably just covering themselves by stating Collectible Only.


Here is some info on them

An Austrian firm has introduced a pistol that at first glance looks a bit like a 1911, but really isn't anything like it at all. The Ultramatic LV pistol has a fixed barrel and "fixed slide". What moves is an internal bolt, retarded after firing by two locking studs, in a fashion similar to that of the MG-42, the German machine-gun of WWII. Ultramatic calls this a "torus segment locking system".

This is a big pistol, about 10 inches long and 6 inches high with a 6 inch barrel. It has conventional double action and a staggered-column magazine. A manual safety combined with a decocker conforms to IPSC rules.

The pistol is offered as a 9mm now, but others in 40, 45, 10mm, and 50 AE are in the works. Pistols have reportedly been in production since late 1995. The company plans to incorporate in the United States and open an office in Atlanta, Georgia.The picture in the story almost exactly matches the one in your post. Curiously, it appears that elements of this pistol design resurfaced as the prototype for the Hogue Avenger. Never heard of that? Me neither until I looked around. It is apparently some sort of 1911 top end: