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The model has the large emblazoned American Eagle Crest on top of the chamber area. There are multiple “Crown N” proof mark stamps. The grips have “trench Art” a custom skull carving on one side. This pistol is in excellent condition for its age, and the bore. Choose Your Serial Number Rebate Available Price Match Request Recently Added Firearms View All Firearms. Ammo By Caliber. Magnum Research MAG380E Micro Desert Eagle 380 ACP 6rd Black $ 24.14. Free FedEx Option. (0) Magnum Research BAR4296PC Desert Eagle 429DE 6' Polished Chr $. The Desert Eagle is fed with a detachable magazine. Magazine capacity is 9 rounds in.357 Magnum, 8 rounds in.44 Magnum, and 7 rounds in.50 Action Express. The Desert Eagle's barrel features polygonal rifling. The pistol is primarily used for hunting, target shooting, and silhouette shooting. Variants Mark I and VII (Mark 1 & 7). I have a Desert Eagle.357, been in the family for at least 20 years. The serial number is only 4 digits (not sure if that is significant) My question is - Is this a MK VII or MK XIX? How the heck do you tell? There are no markings that give it away. The reason I ask is because I am ordering.

The Desert Eagle is a semi-automatic pistol known for chambering the .50 Action Express, the largest centerfire cartridge of any magazine-fed, self-loading pistol. Magnum Research Inc. (MRI) designed and developed the Desert Eagle. The design was refined and the pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI) until 1995, when MRI shifted the manufacturing contract to Saco Defense in Saco, Maine. In 1998, MRI moved manufacturing back to IMI, which later commercialized its small arms branch under the name Israel Weapon Industries. Since 2009, the Desert Eagle Pistol has been produced in the United States at MRI's Pillager, Minnesota, facility.^[3]Kahr Arms acquired Magnum Research in 2010.^[4]

Magnum Research has marketed various versions of the short recoilJericho 941 pistol under the Baby Eagle and Desert Eagle Pistol names; these weapons are not directly related to the Desert Eagle but do share a similar visual design.^[5]

Design details[edit]

The design for the Desert Eagle was initiated by Bernard C. White of Magnum Research and Arnolds Streinbergs of Riga Arms Institute, who filed a US patent application for a mechanism for a gas-actuated pistol in January 1983.^[6] This established the basic layout of the Desert Eagle. A second patent application was filed in December 1985, after the basic design had been refined by IMI Systems (Israel Military Industries) for production, and this is the form that went into production.^[7]

The pistol is fired by a single action hammer, and has a manual safety switch on the slide. The ambidextrous safety switch rotates a drum mechanism which sits over the firing pin, causing the firing pin to lock in, which prevents it from moving forward and reduces the possibility of the gun discharging accidentally. With the safety off, pulling the trigger releases the hammer to fall downward, hitting the firing pin and causing the chambered round to discharge.

The Desert Eagle uses a gas-operated ejection/chambering mechanism normally found in rifles, as opposed to the short recoil or blow-back designs most commonly seen in semi-automatic pistols. When a round is fired, gases are ported out through a small hole in the barrel in front of the chamber. These travel forward, through a small tube under the barrel, to a cylinder underneath the front of the barrel. The slide, which acts as the bolt carrier, has a small piston on the front that fits into this cylinder. When the gases reach the cylinder, the piston pushes the slide rearward, with a large pin inside the camming surface in the rear of the bolt causing the bolt to rotate and unlock. A mechanism on the left side of the bolt prevents the bolt from rotating freely as the slide moves, forcing it to remain aligned correctly with the barrel while the breech is open. The spring-loaded ejector is continually being depressed by the case, until the case is free of the chamber and the tension from the ejector is released, causing the case to eject, breaking free of the extractor in the process. The slide reaches its rearmost position, then moves forward again under tension of the recoil springs. The bottom lug of the bolt pushes a new round into the chamber, then the bolt locks up and the gun can be fired again.

The rotating bolt has three radial locking lugs (forth lug is only for pushing next round in the chamber), with the extractor on the right hand side fitting where the fifth lug would be, and strongly resembles the 7-lug bolt of the M16 series of rifles, while the fixed gas cylinder/moving piston resemble those of the Ruger Mini-14 carbine (the original patent used a captive piston similar to the M14 rifle).^[3][5]

The advantage of the gas operation is that it allows the use of far more powerful cartridges than traditional semi-automatic pistol designs. Thus it allows the Desert Eagle to compete in an area that had previously been dominated by magnum revolvers. Downsides of the gas-operated mechanism are the large size of the Desert Eagle, and the fact that it discourages the use of unjacketed lead bullets, as lead particles sheared off during firing could clog the gas release tap, preventing proper function.^[5]

Switching a Desert Eagle to another chambering requires only that the correct barrel, bolt assembly, and magazine be installed. Thus, a conversion to fire the other cartridges can be quickly accomplished. The rim diameter of the .50 AE (Action Express) is the same as the .44 Remington Magnum cartridge, consequently only a barrel and magazine change is required to convert a .44 Desert Eagle to the larger, more powerful .50 AE round.^[3][5] The most popular barrel length is 6 in (152 mm), although a 10 in (254 mm) barrel is available. The Mark XIX barrels are machined with integral scope mounting bases, simplifying the process of adding a pistol scope.

The Desert Eagle is fed with a detachable magazine. Magazine capacity is 9 rounds in .357 Magnum, 8 rounds in .44 Magnum, and 7 rounds in .50 Action Express. The Desert Eagle's barrel features polygonal rifling. The pistol is primarily used for hunting, target shooting, and silhouette shooting.^[3][5]

Variants[edit]

Mark I and VII (Mark 1 & 7)[edit]

The Mark I, which is no longer produced, was offered with a steel, stainless steel or aluminum alloy frame and differs primarily in the size and shape of the safety levers and slide catch.^[5] The Mark VII includes an adjustable trigger (retrofittable to Mark I pistols). The Mark I and VII are both available in .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum; the Mark VII has been chambered for .41 Magnum. The barrels had a ​³⁄₈' dovetail, to which an accessory mount could be attached. Later Mark VII models were offered in .50 Action Express with a ​⁷⁄₈' Weaver-pattern rail on the barrel; the .50 Mark VII would later become the Mark XIX. Barrel lengths were 6, 10, and 14 inches^[5] for .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum, but only 6 or 10 inches for .41 Magnum.

Mark XIX (Mark 19)[edit]

The most recent model, the Mark XIX, is available in .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, 429 DE (introduced 2018) and .50 Action Express (or .50 AE). This model comes in a variety of different finishes, such as brushed chrome or titanium gold. Magnum Research offered this model in .440 Cor-Boncaliber, a .50 AE derived case. There were fewer than 500 original .440 Cor-Bon Desert Eagles imported into U.S. in December 2000. These are marked by the number 440 on the left lower side of the barrel, in numerals twice the size of other calibers, and without the preceding period. A number of .44 Magnum barrels were re-chambered to produce .440 Corbon barrels, but these can be identified by the off-centered '.440' (with period) produced by adding the final 0 to the original barrel mark.

Mark XIX barrels are available in 6-inch (150 mm) and 10-inch (250 mm) lengths only.^[5] .357 Magnum barrels have exterior barrel flutes on the left, right and top sides of the barrel. .44 Magnum barrels have flutes on the left and right side only, not on the top. The .50 AE barrels have no flutes.

The DE44CA (Desert Eagle .44 Magnum California) is the only XIX that is approved for dealer sales to the public in the State of California.^[8] It differs from standard XIXs in that it has a firing-pin block incorporated in its design.

Current-model Mark XIX Desert Eagles now have a new-style Picatinny rail along the top of the barrel, as opposed to the dove-tail style rail on previous models. Magnum Research now also offers a proprietary internal muzzle brake with different colors for the .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, and .50 AE versions to help reduce recoil, that includes external muzzle brakes. Moreover can have another picatinny rail on the bottom of the frame.

Users[edit]

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• Poland: GROM^[9][10]
• Portugal: Grupo de Operações Especiais

In popular culture[edit]

The Desert Eagle has been featured in more than 500 films, television shows and video games, making it well known in popular culture.^[11]

The commercial success of the pistol is due in part to its use in motion pictures, according to Magnum Research chairman and CEO John Risdall.^[12] According to a 1994 newspaper article, the company actively solicited prop houses to use the gun.^[12] By 1999 it had been used in over 40 films, including Eraser, Red Heat, RoboCop, Last Action Hero, Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, Assassins, The Last Boy Scout, Double Impact, Snatch, The Matrix and Austin Powers.^[12]

It is also featured in a number of various video games and series, including, but not limited to Duke Nukem, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, Resident Evil, Far Cry, Call of Duty, Tomb Raider, Killing Floor, Fallout, Fallout 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Garena Free Fire, Counter-Strike and Hitman.^[13]

The Desert Eagle was referenced in the song My Life,^[14] by The Game which was released July 22nd, 2008 in the US.

References[edit]

1. ^Monica Arnold (October 31, 2018). 'Magnum Research Introduces New 429 DE Pistol Cartridge'. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
2. ^Yekutiel, Darom (1991). The Art of the Handgun: An Illustrated Guide to Self Defense and Combat Shooting (In Hebrew). Jerusalem, Israel: Keter Publishing House. p. 245. ISBN965-07-0076-5.
3. ^ ^abcdTaffin, John (2005). 'The Desert Eagle of Magnum Research'. Guns Magazine. 30 (8).
4. ^'Gun Review: Magnum Research IWI Desert Eagle Mark XIX .50AE'. 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-28.
5. ^ ^abcdefghHartink, A.E. (2002). The Complete Encyclopedia of Pistols and Revolvers. Edison, New Jersey: Chartwell Books, Inc. pp. 165–167. ISBN978-0-7858-1519-8.
6. ^US Patent 4,563,937, Gas Actuated Pistol, the first patent filed (though not the first assigned).
7. ^United States Patent 4,619,184
8. ^'Roster of Handguns Certified For Sale – Firearms Division'. California Dept of Justice. 2009. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
9. ^'//- Strona powicona Wojskowej Formacji Specjalnej GROM -//'. Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
10. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20060703092850/http://www.wp.mil.pl/galeria/517/zdjecie_517_6398.jpg. Archived from the original on 2006-07-03. Retrieved 2012-12-09.Missing or empty |title= (help)
11. ^Rees, Clair (1998). 'Multiple Threat Magnum'. American Handgunner. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
12. ^ ^abcHornaday, Ann (Jan 17, 1999) 'Guns on film: a loaded issue ', Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
13. ^'Desert Eagle Games'. Giant Bomb. Retrieved 2019-06-23.
14. ^The Game (Ft. Lil Wayne) – My Life, retrieved 2020-12-17

External links[edit]

• Multiple Threat Magnum (American Handgunner article)

The all new Baby Desert Eagle “Fast Action” Pistol is an all new animal and. Based on the serial number, they looked it up and said it was. Have any numbers but that there were VERY few two tone Baby Eagles imported. Baby Desert Eagle Serial Number Lookup. After your Desert Eagle racks up a few miles, install new springs and restore the zing. Recommended every 1,000.

The Jericho 941 is a double-action/single-action semi-automatic pistol developed by Israel Military Industries (now: Israel Weapon Industries) that was launched in 1990.

It was first imported into the US in 1990 by K.B.I., Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It was later imported by O.F. Mossberg & Sons and named the Uzi Eagle and by Magnum Research, Inc. as the Baby Eagle until the end of 2008. Some pistols from Magnum Research are marked Desert Eagle Pistol. Despite these names being used in the US market, the Jericho 941 is not related to the IMI Desert Eagle other than its manufacture and design by IMI, and bears only a slight cosmetic resemblance to the larger pistol. From January 2009 until they ceased business in January 2010, K.B.I., Inc. (which also imported Charles Daly firearms) imported the handgun as the Jericho. Magnum Research, now a division of Kahr Arms, announced a renewed importation of the Jericho.

In December 2014, IWI US, Inc. announced they would begin importing both the steel and polymer versions of the Jericho 941 in early 2015.^[1]

• 3Variants

Design and features[edit]

The original Jericho 941 was modeled on the well-respected CZ-75 pistol designed and produced by Česká zbrojovka (CZ) of the Czech Republic and built using parts supplied by the Italian arms house Tanfoglio, which had been making their own CZ-75 clones. Using a well-tested design allowed IMI to avoid the teething problems most new pistol designs experience, and subcontracting much of the basic fabrication work to Tanfoglio allowed IMI to quickly and economically put into production a pistol that would have enough Israeli content to satisfy government contract requirements.^[2]

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While the R-versions of Jericho 941 feature a combined safety/decocker (the decocking lever also acts as a safety and remains on 'safe' when actuated), the decocker version of the CZ-75 (CZ-75BD) features a simple decocker (the pistol is always ready to fire in double-action mode when decocked). The barrel of the CZ-75 is traditionally rifled, while the Jericho 941 features a polygonal barrel, furthermore the Jericho 941 is substantially heavier. These differences translate into substantial differences in the condition in which the gun is carried. Magazines for the CZ-75 and Tanfoglio T95 will function in the Jericho 941.

One innovation by IMI was a new, much 'hotter' cartridge, the .41 Action Express (see below) to go along with the Jericho 941. The difference between 9mm and .41 AE is the same as .44 Magnum and .50 AE. The AE cartridges have rebated rims which are the same diameter as the less powerful rounds, but the case is wider, providing more power. This allows these pairs of calibers to be used in the same firearm with only a change of barrel, recoil spring and magazine.^[2]

The .41 AE was less commercially successful than the 10 mm, and was soon discontinued.^[3] Experience with heavily loaded rounds gave IMI a considerable lead, however, in chambering for the soon-to-be successful .40 S&W and also allowed the Jericho to 'up-chamber' to the very popular .45 ACP.^[2] The Jericho 941 design has been modified to include accessory rails on the frame for mounting lasers or flashlights, a feature found on many current-generation semi-automatic handguns.

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In Pop Culture[edit]

The Jericho 941 serves as the signature weapon of Spike Spiegel, the main protagonist of the anime Cowboy Bebop.In addition, the DC Comics character, Jason Todd, the Red Hood, wields a pair of customized Jericho 941s, fitted with extra serrations and mini red dot sights.

The pistol is referenced in the Maurice Broaddus short story, 'The Dead Yard,' in the Larry Corriea and Bryan Thomas Schmidt edited anthology The Monster Hunter Files (Baen Books, 2017)

The Jericho 941 R is carried by Jack Crow, the main character in the movie 'Vampires', played by James Woods.

Protagonist Richard Castle used a Jericho 941 Stainless in the episode “Reckoning” (Season 7, Episode 15).

Variants[edit]

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Steel frames^[4][edit]

Polymer frames[edit]

The introduction of the Jericho 941 also introduced a new caliber to the market, the .41 Action Express (or .41 AE), which was developed in 1986.^[2] The .41 AE was a unique rebated rim cartridge designed to use .410-inch (10.25 mm) bullets and duplicate a reduced power police loading of the .41 Magnum.^[3] The Jericho originally shipped with two barrels, one for 9×19mm Parabellum and the other for .41 AE. Since the .41 AE was designed with a rebated rim the same dimensions as that of the 9 mm, the extractor and ejector worked equally well for either cartridge.^[2]

Ballistically, the .40 S&W was similar to moderate .41 AE loads (the reloading manuals that list the .41 AE generally say to use .40 S&W data), although commercial loadings of .41 AE were somewhat more powerful than the .40 S&W. With the stronger backing of major American firearms and ammunition manufacturers, the .40 S&W quickly pushed the .41 AE out of the market. The Jericho 941 was only on the market for one year before the dual 9 mm/.41 AE chambering was dropped, and the pistol was sold as either 9 mm or .40 S&W. Some shooters like the Baby Eagle in .40 S&W for its extra reserve of strength, since the Baby Eagle was originally designed for a more potent cartridge (the .41 AE), which is the reverse of some makers who dropped .40 S&W barrels into pistols previously spec'd for the milder 9 mm cartridge and had subsequent barrel and cartridge case failures.

A later compact version, the Jericho 941, was chambered in .45 ACP or 9 mm. It is not clear to what extent the Jericho original .41 AE/9 mm Jericho frame and slide were 'built-up' to handle the .45 ACP's much larger diameter; although the .45 ACP is a milder load running at much lower pressures than the .41 AE, the barrel opening for the .45 ACP is, of necessity, much larger. Desert Eagle does not permit the use of +P or +P+ loads per its website FAQ, although reviewers have shot and reported the ballistics on +P .45 ACP defensive loadings.

Initially Jericho pistols used barrels with polygonal rifling, which sometimes produces slightly higher velocity due to better bullet to barrel fit. IWI switched to conventional land and groove rifling from 2005 to 2007.

The Jericho 941 is issued in current service throughout the Israeli Security Forces, and Israel Weapon Industries lost a 1.2 Billion Pesos bid for the Philippine National Police's 60,000 handgun procurement on July 11, 2012.

Israeli Government IMI Jericho 941F's, occasionally available on the US Civilian Surplus Market, are SAO (Single Action Only) versions of the IMI/IWI Jericho 941 models sold new in the US.^[5][6] These pistols can appear with either factory SAO triggers, or trigger/frame modifications performed by Israeli Armorers. The Armorer-modified version can be externally identified by an extra roll-pin added in the frame slightly forward of the trigger-pivot (also a roll-pin). This extra roll-pin prevents the trigger from moving forward to the now non-existent DA position within the trigger-guard. The SAO triggers of the Govt. 941's apply to what is commonly known as the 'Israeli Method'^[7] of carry, otherwise known as 'Condition 3' within the lexicon developed by Jeff Cooper.

Desert Eagle Interchangeable Barrels

Users[edit]

• BelgiumSûreté de l'Etat
• Colombia^[8]
• Costa Rica^[9]
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador^[10]
• Georgia: Used by army and police.^[11]
• Greece^[12]
• Hungary: Used by police.
• India: Used by Special Forces. ^[13]
• Israel: Used by various police and security forces.^[14]
• Romania
• Serbia^[15]
• South Korea: Used by Army and Marine Corps Military Police Special Duty Team^[16]
• Ukraine: since September 2009 produced in Ukraine under the name “Fort-21.03”.^[17] Used by Ukrainian police and special forces^[18]
• Kenya: Used by The Kenya Police.

References[edit]

1. ^'IWI US Announces the Return of Jericho 941 - The Firearm Blog'. 18 December 2014.
2. ^ ^abcdeLewis, Jack; Campbell, Robert K.; Steele, David (26 September 2007). 'From uzi to Cornershot'. The Gun Digest Book of Assault Weapons. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. pp. 242–243. ISBN0-89689-498-3.
3. ^ ^abBarnes, Frank C. (5 October 2012). Cartridges of the World: A Complete Illustrated Reference for More Than 1,500 Cartridges. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. p. 353. ISBN1-4402-3059-5.
4. ^'Jericho 941 models'(PDF).
5. ^'Jericho 941F'. www.czfirearms.us.
6. ^'Jericho 941F'. www.czfirearms.us.
7. ^'The Truth About 'Israeli Carry' - The Truth About Guns'. 24 April 2017.
8. ^Jane's Infantry Weapons. 17. 1992. p. 29.
9. ^Central America Report. 24. Inforpress Centroamericana. 1997. p. 33.
10. ^Montes, Julio A. (May 2000). 'Infantry Weapons of the Salvadoran Forces'. Small Arms Review. Vol. 3 no. 8.
11. ^Vining, Miles (22 April 2016). 'ISAF armament of BLS'.
12. ^'Israel Gifts Jericho 941 pistols to Hellenic Coast Guard - The Firearm Blog'. 30 August 2012.
13. ^'Special Group (4 VIKAS) - Indian Clandestine Unit'.
14. ^Charles Q. Cutshaw (28 February 2011). Tactical Small Arms of the 21st Century: A Complete Guide to Small Arms From Around the World. Iola, Wisconsin: Gun Digest Books. p. 88. ISBN1-4402-2482-X.
15. ^Nenad (3 October 2009). 'Specijalna brigada Vojske Srbije'.
16. ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2016-11-21. Retrieved 2014-12-02.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
17. ^'на выставке НПО «Форт» показало и еще одну новинку израильского происхождения – пистолет «Форт-21», являющийся лицензионной копией израильского пистолета «Jericho»'
    Петр Черных. И в бою, и на охоте, и по банкам пострелять: чем оружейники порадовали украинскую публику… // УНИАН от 2 октября 2009
18. ^'Pistol 'Fort-21.03''.

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