Any interest in a Merwin Hulbert collectors and shooters group?

[Zip Wyatt]

I've become hooked on these intriquing revolvers but there doesn't appear to be much discussion about them anywhere on the web.  Are there others like me that would participate in a group for Merwins like BOSS for Smiths or SCORRS for Remmies?   I'm sure there are some folks out there that have knowledge about both collecting and shooting these great guns?

Zip

P.S.  We can call it SMHART - Shooters of Merwin Hulbert Automatic Revolver Technology

[St. George]

Since the 'BOSS Forum' covers the top-breaks - and the Merwin, Hulbert falls into that category - there's no read need for another  specialized forum.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Montanian]

I think it's a great idea and there's a lot more to figure out about Merwins than their enormously more documented and discussed better known competitors. 

While there are Hopkins & Allen topbreak revolvers that look nearly identical to period Smiths, Iver Johnsons, Harrington & Richardson, and others, the Merwin's ejection system of sliding forward isn't a top-break,  a "forward-slide" (boy is that awkward) that you only see elsewhere in the French-designed Galant-Somerville revolvers 1868-1870 forward that use a long lever hinged underneath the barrel to slide the cylinder forward so that only the spent (shortened) cartridges fall out. 

Learning from others is the only way we can progress on the many mysteries of Merwins, just like many of the other 19th century innovative guns that have far more mysteries than Winchesters, Colts, Smith, etc. that have been talked to death 40 years ago (that's when I started reading about them and the discussion really hasn't changed much on the old models.)

[St. George]

If it helps - I've already spoken to the Marshal, and we're changing the 'BOSS Forum' to one that deals with 'all' of the Frontier Revolvers - not just the Colts and Smith & Wessons.

Look for the name change as soon as he can install it.

This also means that the readers are going to have to do some documented research, and not just wish for more information that in too many cases just isn't really available.

Art Phelps wrote the Merwin, Hulbert 'Bible' - most articles that followed on are derivative - so 'new' material is needed to expand the knowledge base - as it will be for Forehand and Wadsworth and Hopkins and Allen and so on and so forth.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Dalton Masterson]

I like the idea of a Merwin group, but dont think a forum would be very active if it was only Merwins. I look at the new Merwin Co forum, and its really not very active as far as an interest group.

Btw, we could always just start a thread on Merwins, such as show me your Merwin.

DM

[Dr. Bob]

The BOSS forum here in CAS City is the regular location of Merwin Hulbert owners.  Drop on down and check it out.

[Short Knife Johnson]

The site for the Merwin Hulbert Collectors Association is    http://www.merwinhulbert.com/home.html   

Terry Wagner that is the "President for life" is one hell of a nice guy, and willing to help anyone lucky enough to own one of these beauties.