7.62 Spanish handgun

[pdentrem]

Had a Llama 1911 copy in .22RF. Very well made. Should of kept it!

 

[lordbeezer]

Ruby. Not so hot. Star well made pistols. Have 3 star 45acp.carried one for years as backup. First commercial made compact lightweight 45’s. 9mm bm’s are nice.

 

[Bobbyc01]

I recently purchased a 7.62 Spanish automatic pistol at an estate auction. There is little information on the net about the gun. Where would one find ammo for it?
I would greatly appreciate any knowledge you share of this gun.

 

[Bobbyc01]

After taking a closer look it’s a Buffalo 7.65 Spanish.
sorry about the wrong info in the beginning just going what I was told.
But clearly on the chamber Buffalo 7.65

 

[motormech1]

Check this out

Browning & Bufalo

 

[Aaron_W]

Spain had very loose copyright laws, so Spanish gun makers made copies of a lot of successful guns. Browning and Colt semi-autos, as well as Colt and S&W revolvers were very popular subjects. Quality varied from very good, to very bad.

During WW1 Spanish gun makers churned out thousands (estimates between 500,000-1 million) of Browning clones, mostly in 7.65mm (32ACP), as a group they are called Ruby pistols. After the Spanish Civil War the government reined in gun manufacture and the dozens of small manufactures closed up shop or consolidated basically leaving Astra, Star and Llama.

 

[Bobbyc01]

Check this out

Browning & Bufalo

You nailed it!
thank you for your time

 

[pontiac428]

Looks a rare bird, only made for six years.

Bufalo and Danton​

In 1919, Gabilondo introduced the Bufalo, a pistol inspired by the Browning designed FN model 1910. While resembling the 1910 closely externally, the mechanism had some features carried over from the Browning model 1903. The striker was replaced with a concealed hammer, and in those models fitted with a grip safety, the Browning design was replaced with a native design patented in Spain. The Bufalo was manufactured in 7.65 mm/.32 ACP, and 9 mm corto/.380 ACP with seven-, nine-, and twelve-round removable magazines.

For the first time a Spanish product appears to have inspired copies by foreign makers, in the form of the FN Model 1910/22 supplied to the Yugoslavian military, to replace worn out, nine shot Ruby-types supplied during the war.

The Danton, introduced in 1925 to replace the Bufalo, was very similar but also available in 6.35 mm/.25 ACP calibre. Despite being marked "War Model" and being fitted with a lanyard ring, these pistols attracted no official military sales, but were popular private-purchase and police weapons. Both guns were a great success, with one exporter alone shipping 100 pistols a day to the US. Production of the Danton was stopped in 1933.