Anybody Heard of A wolf HV?

[oldgold]

Someone asked me if I've heard of a Wolf HV pistol. Supposed to be a Fixed barrel .45 made in Europe.

 

[Jim Watson]

When I was reading about it years ago it was known as the Wolf Ultramatic.
Picture and comments at:
http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/ugly-gun-sunday_24.html

Big, ugly, odd inertia lock operating system, unsuccessful in the marketplace.

 

[oldgold]

Thanks Jim, that's what we were looking for. We were more curious about how it locked up rather than wanting to buy one.

From the 1997 Gun Digest, Page 114:

An Austrian firm has introduced a pistol that at first glance looks a bit like a 1911, but really isn't anything like it at all. The Ultramatic LV pistol has a fixed barrel and "fixed slide". What moves is an internal bolt, retarded after firing by two locking studs, in a fashion similar to that of the MG-42, the German machine-gun of WWII. Ultramatic calls this a "torus segment locking system".

This is a big pistol, about 10 inches long and 6 inches high with a 6 inch barrel. It has conventional double action and a staggered-column magazine. A manual safety combined with a decocker conforms to IPSC rules.

The pistol is offered as a 9mm now, but others in 40, 45, 10mm, and 50 AE are in the works. Pistols have reportedly been in production since late 1995. The company plans to incorporate in the United States and open an office in Atlanta, Georgia.The picture in the story almost exactly matches the one in your post. Curiously, it appears that elements of this pistol design resurfaced as the prototype for the Hogue Avenger. Never heard of that? Me neither until I looked around. It is apparently some sort of 1911 top end:
http://www.getgrip.com/main/whatsnew/avenger.html