Dansk Schouboe Model 1907

     Notes: This pistol was designed by Lieutenant Jens Torring Schouboe, an officer in the Danish Army and director of the Dansk Rekylriffel Syndikat, a maker of firearms of the time.  The Model 1907 was designed after the failure of his first pistol design; it is a very large-caliber pistol that was designed to be relatively light in weight.  He also wanted to use a simple blowback design, but this was difficult to do with such a large bullet.  He therefore designed a very lightweight bullet, made of wood with a thin copper jacket.  The weapon worked, but the bullet was really too light to have much stopping power, and it lost velocity quickly.  The Model 1907 was never popular, and production stopped altogether in 1917.