{"id":50589,"date":"2019-10-23T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50589"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:16:47","slug":"the-guns-of-john-pedersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/the-guns-of-john-pedersen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guns of John Pedersen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U998IeAAWYY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 10 Apr 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sold for:<br \/>\n$34,500 (Pedersen Device)<br \/>\nFailed to sell (Model 10 shotgun)<br \/>\n(Model 12 in a later auction)<br \/>\n$1,610 (Model 14 carbine, with one other rifle)<br \/>\n(Military Ithaca 37 in a later auction)<br \/>\n$2,588 (Remington 51 pistol with one other pistol)<br \/>\n(Irwin-Pedersen M1 Carbine in a later auction)<br \/>\n$16,100 (Vickers-Pedersen rifle)<br \/>\n$74,750 (Pedersen GY rifle)<\/p>\n<p>John Pedersen was one of the more prolific and successful gun designers in American history, having even been described by John Moses Browning as &#8220;the greatest gun designer in the world&#8221;. And yet, many people only know about Pedersen from his unsuccessful toggle-locked rifle or his WWI Pedersen Device that never saw action. In truth, Pedersen&#8217;s work included a number of very successful sporting rifles and shotguns that many shooters would still recognize today. While looking through the guns at Rock Island on my most recent trip there, I realized that they had examples of virtually every one of Pedersen&#8217;s guns &mdash; so I figured I should do an overview of the man&#8217;s work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-23-The-Guns-of-John-Pedersen.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published on 10 Apr 2015 Sold for: $34,500 (Pedersen Device) Failed to sell (Model 10 shotgun) (Model 12 in a later auction) $1,610 (Model 14 carbine, with one other rifle) (Military Ithaca 37 in a later auction) $2,588 (Remington 51 pistol with one other pistol) (Irwin-Pedersen M1 Carbine in a later auction) $16,100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,5,13,663],"tags":[140,1366,49,1266,174],"class_list":["post-50589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-handguns","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-d9X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51877,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50589\/revisions\/51877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}