Showing posts with label double revolver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label double revolver. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2009

Weird Guns (part 3) Double Revolver




Not much info on this one, Evidently from the Nineteenth Century, an attempt to increase the ammunition capacity and rate of fire of a revolver by giving it a cylinder with two rows of cartridges and a over under double barrel. From the looks of the hammer, both barrels may have fired at once. I'm not sure if that would have made a greater impression of the one firing the weapon or the target. The barrels' diameter would lead me to guess that it was chambered for a .45 or .44 caliber bullet and it looks like it was made for centerfire ammunition. As with most firearm technology that is not common or stolen by other manufacturers, it probably didn't work very well. I can't imagine that this gun had any kind of balance at all, which likely made it only accurate at food throwing distances. From the clumsy looks to the rather insane design, I also am going to guess this weapon was made in France.
(sorry, France, you are good at other things)

If anyone has more info on this weapon, let me know.