Why did a slide become a standard on handguns? Luger and Mauser

Easier to have one big moving part that a lot of little ones

Browning's recoil-operation was simpler and worked better than the other attempts at making a semiauto handgun, so it stuck.

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>>34798065
Bumping with Theodore Roosevelt's own FN 1900, first production pistol with a slide.

>>34798065
Because John Moses Browning (pbuh) is a minor god to firearms development.

>>34798086
Ehhh mediocre damascening at best.

>>34798147
Fits his personality, direct and simple but deep and solid, I can guarantee you that gold wire is at least as deep as it is thick.

Don't care core the scroll work though

>>34798106
>John Moses Browning
>a minor god

literally father, son and holy spirit, all wrapped up into a middle aged white guy with a stash

>>34798147
>only exposure to damascening is Ian's video
The point of this damascene work is to contrast with the engraving. Not every damscened gun has to some gaudy pure gold thing like Ian thinks it does. He really just needs to stick to historical guns and leave decorated guns to somebody else, because he obviously has no interest in them.

>>34798210
He doesn't mean it from a artistic viewpoint, he means it from a purely craftsmanship viewpoint, it's like a watch that has like 30 complications, of course it looks like fucking crap but it doesn't change a massive amount of time and work went into it

>>34798210
>i jump to conclusions
oh boy I want summer to end

>>34798147

Is that really damascened? Looks more like traditional inlay to me

>>34798065

I think mainly due to Browning's operating mechanism becoming widely used and mimicked.

It worked, and worked well. So, you get a lot of other designs taking elements from it, and after a while that becomes the standard for "how a pistol should look". At which point the market and people's perception take over.

It could have gone other ways, but the Browning's success made it the standard.

>>34798065
The "slide" is actually the bolt. By having it telescope over the barrel and lock in the front, you get the benefit of a lot of mass to slow down the rearward motion of the bolt for safe operation (especially of blowback designs) without adding unnecessary length like is necessary with rear locking designs.

The rear locking P08 Luger, for example, is half an inch longer than the 1911 despite having a 1 inch shorter barrel.

Most people associate the term "telescoping bolt" with the Uzi, but Browning's original 1897 patent refers to the slide as such.

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Here you go op