USFA Omnipotent in 44-40.

[Buckaroo Lou]

I really liked this one. I thought it to be a very unique firearm.

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=388239542

[Coffinmaker]

I had a pair of them in .38 Spl.  Really really nice guns.  I however, shoot Gunfighter and just couldn't figure a way to draw and point em.  Sold em.  Mine were about 1300 apiece when I bought em.  I can't believe how much this "customer" paid for that 44-40.  A fool and his money are soon parted.

Coffinmaker

[Buckaroo Lou]

"A fool and his money are soon parted." This statement is true, however, in it's previous context I am not sure I would be so quick to judge another man's decision to purchase an item he wants and obviously has the funds to pay for. Perhaps someday he may be smiling while taking a profit to the bank or he may simply enjoy his purchase for years to come.

[Professor Marvel]

I am afraid I am another one of those wackadoodels eccentrics who really likes the Omnipotent. But not at that price  

I was absolutely intrigued by the lines and style of the Omnipotent when it first came out, and was saving up my lunch money with plans to purchase one, in spite of the obvious ergometric screwup issues of putting a double-action grip frame on a single action revolver.

I thought there was a real possibility unlike the astronomicallly slim chances of obtaining a new-made Merwin & Hulbert    
Unfortunately The Omnipotents  were such a short run, I never really stood a chance.

Then the owner took his bat and ball and stadium even the entire franchise and left the game, leaving hundreds of players and thousands of spectators stunned and disappointed.

After considerable huffing and puffing, cogitation,  and examination and measurement of the Omnipotent Photos (the only thing left to us mere mortals) , I realized that it is little more than a model P with a heavily modified gripframe, grip , and hammer - so there is hope for a self-made "one-of" - much like putting a Thunderer gripframe and grips on an 1860.

So, a custom manufactured frame is getting put on The List Of Dreams, (after finishing my Hysterically Correct Fullstock Flintlock  Lehman Trade Rifle). If I can ever get the Honeydos , Winter Emergencies, and Summer Fire Season Preps under control ...

Without the possibility of having the opportunty to fondle actually handle an Omnipotent, however, I can only hope that  if I  ever actually get it started and finished once the gripframe is done I am not utterly dissappointed by, say, the inability to reach the hammer or some other such fubar dilemma.

yhs
prof amrvel

[Skeeter Lewis]

It's hard to know what the point of this firearm was.