Palmetto Arms Colt Roots Carbine value

[Mike]

 Palmetto Arms Colt Roots Carbine what are these worth. Are there many out there.
Any info appreciated.

[Dick Dastardly]

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php?topic=16804.0

They are shown here.

DD-MDA

[Mike]

DD.Thanks read all the pros and cons on the gun, been offered one but dont no what they are worth now, $750 new when available.
I have a 1858 Carbine and you don't hold the gun in front of the cylinder.

[Dick Dastardly]

Correct Mike.  If that chamber doesn't line up exactly, shaved lead will come forward.  And, what's forward?  Yer tender hand.  The idea of using a revolving rifle needs some understanding.  Any failure to line up 100% with the barrel will shave the bullet and the shaving WILL go.  Not where you may want it to go.  Could be into the limb you have in front of the cylinder.

DD-MDA

[Pettifogger]

I have never ever seen one of these for sale new or used.  They are not common.  They are no longer made.  Since there was and is virtually no market for them it is hard to tell what the value is.

[Mike]

Thanks Need to sleep on it.

[Earl Brasse]

Per the link, I watched Cap n Redneck shoot his in Norway back in '07, style, lots of style.

Very interesting the "fixes" he did to it to bring it back to "factory specs"; maybe if Palmetto would have stayed closer to the original design they would have been better received with less problems.

Deffinately not an "shoot right out of the box proposition".

Was what was offered a rifle or a carbne?

It would be worth a 2nd look to see of any of the "fixes" were done.

[Mogorilla]

I wish they would have produced a carbine version.  I have handled an original root carbine and it was nicely balanced for keeping the front hand back at the trigger guard.   I had toyed with the idea, when they first came out, about buying and cutting one down, but I did not have enough discretionary $ sitting around.

[Blair]

The only reproduction Colt Root long arm I have seen was a Military type Rifle.
This was in a six shot .44 cal. My understanding is that the Military arms were all in five shot .56 cal.
.44's were made, but these were in the Civilian type/style models.
Had it not been for this, I would own one today, I would have settled for one in .54 cal. five shot, only because more bullet styles are available in that cal.
My best,
Blair