[arcticap]

Now that's some "sweet 16" pepperbox pistol.

http://www.collectorebooks.com/gregg01/DSC00169.jpg

[Voodoochile]

That'll get their attention.
Bet that lil cannon weighs a ton too..

[Ratdog68]

that someone thought outside of the box when it comes to multiple shot capacity. :eek:

[Searcher1970]

Imagine having a chain fire with that one. :what:

[Loyalist Dave]

Imagine, the guy on the other end of that thing when it chain fires

[sltm1]

OMG!! Took a small donkey and 2 strong boy's to carry that puppy I'm sure!! Any info on mfgr or date, or where I can get one??!!

[BHP FAN]

probably tough to find a holster for...

[Shultzhaus]

Something like a hand held Henry. Load it on Sunday, and shoot all week.

[BCRider]

And this is what happens when the design engineer gets into the punch at the Christmas party and the shop machinist says "Sure, what the hell! It'll be good for a lark!".

Some rich kids toy from way back?

[AussieTH]

This link may give a bit more insight - but not much on the actual image that Arcticap has put up.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2255563/posts.

It is interesting the comments about chain fires. Mark Twain wrote that the only safe place in the country was standing behind one!

[arcticap]

Thanks for the link. :)

The following come from a page with 66 images on it that can take a few minutes to load.
It shows side profiles revealing some of the many nipples.

PEPPERBOX, the collection:

http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/images/mar18.jpg

http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/images/28.jpg

http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/images/62.jpg


[And there's even a flintlock version]

http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/images/24.jpg


http://members.chello.nl/j.vandriel4/farecollection.htm

[BHP FAN]

Mark Twain
''George Bemis . . . wore in his belt an old original "Allen" revolver, such as irreverent people called a "pepper-box." Simply drawing the trigger back, cocked and fired the pistol. As the trigger came back, the hammer would begin to rise and the barrel to turn over, and presently down would drop the hammer, and away would speed the ball. To aim along the turning barrel and hit the thing aimed at was a feat which was probably never done with an "Allen" in the world. But George's was a reliable weapon, nevertheless, because, as one of the stage-drivers afterward said, "If she didn't get what she went after, she would fetch something else." And so she did. She went after a deuce of spades nailed against a tree, once, and fetched a mule standing about thirty yards to the left of it. Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to buy it, anyhow. It was a cheerful weapon--the "Allen." Sometimes all its six barrels would go off at once, and then there was no safe place in all the region round about, but behind it.
- Roughing It

[BHP FAN]

and...

''I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault--you could not hit anything with it. One of our 'conductors' practiced awhile on a cow with it, and as long as she stood still and behaved herself she was safe; but as soon as she went to moving about, and he got to shooting at other things, she came to grief...''
- Roughing It