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03 January 2015, 02:08
boom stick
What is this?
Anyone know anything about this?



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03 January 2015, 02:12
raamw
Speed loader??


actually it is
joseph_enouys_8cylinder_48shot_percussion


http://www.reddit.com/r/Artefa...r_48shot_percussion/


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03 January 2015, 03:36
mete
How would a holster maker deal with it ?? 2020
03 January 2015, 20:43
whelenite
Gatling revolver. Wink
04 January 2015, 23:22
HerrMesser
Here is the details.

The Enouy revolver was a design patented by Joseph Enouy of Middlesex, England, who received British patent #1359 in 1855. The basic revolver was based on a transitional revolver design made by Charles Osborne in 1845. The innovative part of Enouy's design was the compound magazine design. According to the notes for his patent application:



Patent 1359. Joseph Enouy, of 31, Denbigh-place, Pimlico, St. George's, Hanover Square, Middlesex, for The means of removal of every rotary or revolving barrel or cylinder containing chambers from all revolver pistols, guns, and fire-arms, and the substitution in their place by another and other barrels or cylinders in succession.

Two or more revolving breech-pieces are connected in a frame attached to the stock in such a manner that when the charges in the chambers of one breech-piece have all been fired, the breech-piece may then be removed and others ready charged by successively substituted in its place.
- Dated June 14, 1855. Sealed December 11, 1855.


In this particular example, each revolver cylinder is capable of holding 6 shots and there are 8 different revolver cylinders attached to the compound magazine wheel, thereby giving this weapon a capacity of 48 shots.

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05 January 2015, 17:02
9.3 X 75R
it's a pain to load!


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05 January 2015, 19:47
OLBIKER
A bad idea!!! Roll Eyes
07 January 2015, 22:02
Peter
A bad idea for 1855??!!
Peter.


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08 January 2015, 07:31
Grizzly Adams
quote:
Originally posted by 9.3 X 75R:
it's a pain to load!


Or, another gun you can load on Sunday and shoot all week. Big Grin

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10 January 2015, 03:19
Paul H
and you thought a scoped handgun was hard to pack Wink


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11 January 2015, 04:33
Dulltool17
Extraordinary, especially for the period!

Either this is ingenious or insane. I'm not sure which.


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03 February 2015, 22:47
Pa.Frank
Looks like and EVIL ASSAULT PISTOL!

It's likely illegal in Calif, NJ, Illinois and NY..


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04 February 2015, 04:07
Rockdoc
Another Hollywood handgun. The six-shooter that shoots 48!


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05 February 2015, 20:09
TBEAR99
heavy


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06 February 2015, 09:41
drewhenrytnt
I had a chain-fire once with a Walker reproduction. I can't imagine a chain-fire with this beast!


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