|
Post by legacyofthesword on Feb 15, 2016 19:49:27 GMT
Imagine this: It's sometime in the later half of the 19th century. You're in a small, dusty town, where you've finally tracked down the man that killed your pa. You give him a steely-eyed glare (and a little jaw clench on your cigarette) as you face off in the empty street. He goes for his gun, and so do you - bullets buzz past you and kick up little clouds of street dust around your boots. You fire your third shot, your forth, fifth, and then final sixth shot, and your hammer clicks against an empty cylinder. Oh no! Lucky for you, your opponent has also fired six shots (you've counted, of course - no, really, it's easy to keep track of the bullets whizzing past your head). And then your opponent shoots you. With the same gun he's just shot six bullets out of. And he shoots you again. And again. And again, and again, and again. And the last thing you see as your knees weaken and you fall to the dirt is your opponent's cold smile, as he says: "Idiot! Haven't you ever heard of the Walch Navy .36? Apparently not." *thud* jamesdjulia.com/item/lot-2374-rare-walch-navy-12-shot-percussion-revolver-37816/percussionrevolvers.com/index.php?topic=727.0
|
|
|
Post by munk on Feb 16, 2016 0:23:38 GMT
Or
|
|
|
Post by Alexander on Feb 16, 2016 0:41:02 GMT
During the war of northern aggression :) the south had a little dandy called the Lemat. It was a nine shot 36 caliber with a 20 gauge smooth bore under the main barrel for good measure.
|
|
|
Post by legacyofthesword on Feb 16, 2016 0:51:38 GMT
munk - of course, if the Glock had been invented back then, history would be far different. Imagine if Custer would have carried one of these little toys to the Little Bighorn: Alexander - Yeah, I read about the LeMat back when I was a kid, and loved it. A shotgun/nine-shooter? Yes please.
|
|
|
Post by legacyofthesword on Feb 16, 2016 2:21:53 GMT
The LeMat must have been extremely heavy. It's a lot bigger then a Remington, which is already a heavy gun to begin with.
|
|
|
Post by shogun on Mar 14, 2016 18:27:30 GMT
Or How come all the pins are white?
|
|
|
Post by munk on Mar 14, 2016 18:48:38 GMT
They're actually just steel colored. At one point I was going for a certain look, black with silver accents (steel pins, trigger safety, slide release, etc) but never really got there. Nowadays I'm more of a black on black kind of guy, which ironically is how it came stock lol.
I still have the stock pins, might swap them back in ay some point. The adjustable trigger is staying though. I've tuned it to eliminate ~90% of the pre and post travel of the trigger pull.
|
|
|
Post by shogun on Mar 15, 2016 1:00:42 GMT
That's cool. I can dig it . The glock I used to have had a ton of slop before break and it was too heavy trigger pull. I don't know much about guns or swords for that matter but I should have messed with the trigger before just selling it .
|
|
|
Post by chrisoro on Apr 16, 2016 23:44:04 GMT
Luckily for me, the way I imagine it is that the events described above never happened as described, because in my mind I was in fact packing this. A 24 barrel Peterson pepperbox. Also available in a smaller model, with only 18 barrels.
|
|
|
Post by Alexander on May 23, 2016 0:15:21 GMT
The biggest problem for me with that many barrels is forgetting which ones I already loaded and which ones I didnt. :)
|
|
|
Post by legacyofthesword on May 23, 2016 19:19:18 GMT
Y'know, those things had a bad habit of shooting off all the barrels at once....
|
|
|
Post by aussie-rabbit on May 24, 2016 12:39:21 GMT
18 shot triple !
|
|