Semi-automatic Pistol

The Semi-automatic Pistol is a weapon featured in Red Dead Redemption.

Description

The Semi-automatic Pistol , along with the High Power Pistol, is the only semi-automatic pistol in the game. This gun is also the choice weapon of Dutch Van Der Linde.

Acquisition

Single Player

This weapon can be purchased at the Escalera Gunsmith at a base price of $300, or $150 if the players Honor is high enough.
Alternatively, the player can unlock this weapon for free after completing the Fort Mercer hideout. It will be found in the treasure room on the wood table left of the entry door, and one of the gang leaders will drop one.

Undead Nightmare

The player obtains the semi-automatic pistol by returning a missing person to Fort Mercer. However, all 5 of the sharpshooter challenges can be completed in New Austin, and it is possible to have the Mauser unlocked before a semi-automatic pistol.

Multiplayer

The Semi-automatic Pistol is unlocked into the player's regular inventory upon reaching rank 24.
- The "Semi Auto Pistolero" weapon challenges are unlocked at the same level. Completion of these challenges turns the weapon golden for the player.
It can also be obtained by killing another player who has the weapon equipped.
Sometimes the weapon can also be found by killing Blackwater police, some of whom carry it.

Tips and Tricks

The Semi-automatic Pistol holds seven rounds in its magazine. Early semi-auto pistols had single stack magazines, meaning the rounds are in a straight line in the magazine as opposed to the offset double stack magazine of some modern pistols. Though seven rounds is little improvement over the six rounds of the Cattleman, the Semi-Automatic Pistol has a higher reload rate and a seemingly higher level of damage.
In Multiplayer, this gun seems to defeat repeaters and other guns at close range and so it's possible to use this as an advantage. Due to this gun's relatively high damage, high rate of fire (depending on how fast in tapping the fire trigger) and reload speed it can easily defeat enemies at close range except when enemies have shotguns, then the user needs to run back, take cover and pop out quickly with a quick burst of semi-auto fire. Also with the pistol's recoil, it is easy to aim for the upper chest and let the recoil take the gun into a headshot.

Trivia

The Semi-automatic Pistol is based on the Borchardt C-93, the predecessor of Georg Luger's famous P08 pistol. Despite the gunsmith's spiel, it was not "brand-new" in 1911.
The Semi-automatic Pistol uses a toggle-lock action, a mechanism not commonly found in modern handguns designs, to load and eject rounds, the same mechanism that would be used in the Luger P08 pistol.
When reloading, the gun's toggle action always locks back, empty or not, despite Marston not even cocking it back, but pulls and releases it forward when finishing the reload animation.
Occasionaly Landon Ricketts uses this weapon.
It is the choice weapon of Dutch Van Der Linde. However, in the cutscene just before Dutch's death, he is seen holding a Cattleman Revolver instead.

Achievements/Trophies

The Semi-automatic Pistol can be used to unlock the following achievements.

	IN A HAIL OF BULLETS 20 gamerscore Silver silver Kill 500 enemies with any pistol or revolver in any game mode.

	BULLSEYE 20 gamerscore Bronze bronze Get 250 headshots in any game mode.

	THE GUNSLINGER 5 gamerscore Silver silver Get a headshot while in Expert Mode in Singleplayer.