Colt's advertising and marketing literature of the time highly touted the advanced safety features of the Model 1908, including a standard slide-locking safety catch, as well as a grip safety. The pistol’s fixed open iron sights were rather small and rudimentary, but typical for small hideout automatics of its era and adequate for the short range at which it was intended to be used. Weighing a mere 13 ounces, it is fed by a six-round single column magazine. Known as the Model "N" internally within Colt, the 1908 Vest Pocket is a diminutive 4.5 inches long, and has a 2-inch barrel. 25 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) cartridge. Both pistols were chambered for the Browning-invented. Designed by John Moses Browning, the Model 1908 followed Browning’s earlier European version, introduced by Fabrique Nationale de Herstal as the FN Model 1906.
Manufactured by the Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1908 to 1948, it was marketed as a small concealable firearm which could be easily tucked into a vest pocket for unobtrusive carry. The Model 1908 Vest Pocket is a compact, hammerless, striker-fired, semi-automatic single-action pistol. Two variants of the Colt Auto Pocket pistols, Calibre.
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