Multi Barrel pistol

Coffinmaker · September 20, 2013, 01:56:30 PM

Well,
Another thread rubbed my two memory cells together. Anybody remember a USFA (I think) multi barrel (6 I think) percussion pistol?? Looked like a SA based Pepperbox. Odd gun. Interesting, but .... Odd. Would however, make a great Steampunk piece :-)

Coffinmaker

Capt. John Fitzgerald · September 20, 2013, 02:02:59 PM

I don't recall word of anything like that coming from USFA. I did post the following as a joke over a year ago;

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,43898.0.html

Coffinmaker · September 20, 2013, 04:07:25 PM

Hi Capt John.
Nope, twasnt that one. The picture I sorta remember was a SA '51 frame with a super long Arbor and a super long 6 barrel cylinder. I don't know if it was a concept, a prototype, or pipe dream but it looked really "neat."
Heck, it may not even been a USFA.

Coffinmaker

MJN77 · September 20, 2013, 04:35:46 PM

This it?

Put out by EMF a few years ago.

Pettifogger · September 20, 2013, 04:37:21 PM

I believe EMF showed a few of those things. The idea never took off and I'm not sure they ever actually sold any. I have seen Walkers with the arbor trimmed and drilled and tapped for a big head screw to make it into a giant pepperbox.

I see the previous poster found a photo while I was typing. That's the one I handled.

Coffinmaker · September 20, 2013, 04:42:30 PM

MJN77,
YES!!! That's it!! I wonder if they made more than one that they'd sell. I'll have to call em on Monday.

Coffinmaket

Pettifogger · September 20, 2013, 05:16:54 PM

As I recall, they were smooth bore as it would be very difficult to ram a ball down five inches of rifling. They were also quite heavy.

Hoof Hearted · October 12, 2013, 02:21:31 PM

Here are a couple pics of the one that Walt at EMF sent me:

There was talk of me turning them into conversions but the moola didn't work out right for either party $:-\$

It is hanging on my pistol wall in the gun safe, never fired, I did purchase it from them and the original barrel assembly so I guess it's a convertible pepperbox......

Interesting back story here is that my original post on this pistol created the start of Mako's unwinding, so to speak, here and ended up in the "outhouse".

HH