can we have another hint?
im having a hard time with this one.

Last hint is that it's a 7.65mm.

my searches pulled up nothing......is this 7.65 x21 or .32 acp, or other?

Alright, I'm officially calling this one. It's a Schwarzlose 1898 in 7.65 x 25mm Borchardt. Never a big success because it had to compete with the Mauser C/96. Most important part of history was 1000 sold to Socialist revolutionaries at Russia in 1905. The shipment was intercepted and they were issued to Russian border police.

Let's try another, shall we?

a lot of glare around the trigger gard, is that a second iece of metal in front of trigegr or a shadow?

It's another piece of metal.

yeah....the trigger does have an awful lot of glare. but! it shall be identified.
its an ugly lil' bastard

Ugly? Sure. But not little, not at all.

It looks very awkward

Perhaps an Iver Johnson break action revolver?