MAB P8
Do you know the MAB P8? , it probably acts of the precursor of P15.
The configuration and the caliber are identical. Opening by short rotation of the barrel in the axis. The charger is with single range and contains eight cartridges. He would have been manufactured during two or three years of 1967 to 1969.
I have of it a specimen, with which I practice the shooting. Unfortunately I do not have any information on this weapon, nor on the possibility of getting spare parts to me.
If you had further information on this weapon, that would help me much.
Thank you
Ph.D.
PS: your site is formidable
Pistolet Automatique MAB models P-8 (1966).
Manufacture d’Armes de Bayonne (MAB).
France.
Pistol MAB models P-8, appeared in 1966, and is a modernization of the R-9 model. It also functions with breech fixed by short recoil and helicoids rotation of the barrel. The lock in simple action has a hammer external provided with a squared and bored round peak of a hole. The spring recuperator is placed under the barrel. The steel slide has vertical scratches of gripping, with a small triangular handlebar and a fixed bead gone up to dovetail. The steel carcass comprises an oval trigger guard and the lever of safety is placed at its left back. The lever of disassembling-stop of slide at the end of the charger is on the left above the trigger and the push rod of the bolt of charger is placed at the left rear of the trigger guard. The handle of right form comprises plates out of wooden striated in width or squared black plastic with name MAB registered in an oval, moulded in the higher part or in the centre. The completion is bronzed.
Pistol MAB models P-8 was manufactured as from March 1966 until 1968. There a version with 15 blows of this weapon was carried out the same year in 1966, it remotely by a slide and a broader carcass to be able to place a charger with double column. It is referred under the name of PA-15 (see this model for more details).
Length: 20,2 cm and the barrel 11,5 cm.
Weight: 1,040 kg.
Calber: 9 mm Parabellum.
Capacity: 8 shots.
