can you identify this pistol

[hoggunner]

Saw this on another forum... anyone know what it is?? looks like it would be fun to shoot...

 

[Jim Watson]

I think they called it the Thunder Five.
.410 revolver with enough rifling to call it a .45 LC.
Crudely made.

 

[armoredman]

Haven't seen one of those in a while! The company was quite proud of the Thunder 5, the first wheelgun to use .410 shotshells deliberately, and use an M16 style safety. Funky little gun I can see no use form, other than a survival battery gun as a flare gun that can occaisionally be required to do other things....do they make .410 flares?

 

[SDC]

I've fired the one in the collection at work a couple of times, and my general impression is A HORRIBLE trigger-pull, unless you like doing push-ups with your finger-tips.

 

[hoggunner]

found the web page,,, I would not spend the $$$ but would still like to shoot it just for grins.. have to agree with SDC & armoredman about its uses... hate to be on the receiving end... even if you missed the bad guy,, you would sure blind him for awhile... LOL

http://www.thunder5.com/docs1.html

 

[Mal H]

.410 shells might be small, but they do have a good kick. So I wonder how long that flimsy looking light mount is going to stay attached.

 

[MrMurphy]

Thunder Five .410 shotgun/.45 Colt revolver.


Among the other uses I heard as a possibility for it, an anticarjacking gun, loaded two shotgun 3 pistol rounds.


It's claim to fame is the gun was used in "Three Kings" even though in 1991 the gun didn't exist (set in Gulf War #1).

 

[parados]

I've always wondered...

How do they get away with it not being an EVIL "short barreled shotgun"?

Seems like the ATF would be all over that...

 

[MMcCall]

Because it's not a shotgun. You can buy shot cartridges in any caliber, it's the launching platform the ATF cares about.

 

[faustulus]

looks like it would be fun to shoot...

masochist.

 

[gvass]

hi,
one US company marketed this big fat ugly thing as NON-LETHAL weapon for fin-stabilized rubber bullets.

That is a more logical use of such bastard, as no need for good trigger and long barrel.

The frame looks like it was molded from pot metal.

 

[MrMurphy]

It was cast in one piece.

 

[Ktulu]

The Thunder 5. You can see one in action in the movie Three Kings.

 

[Browns Fan]

Looks like a neat thing to have in the tacklebox.

 

[Darkmind]

I need me one of these for my $***s and giggles factor.

 

[albanian]

I can think of a few specialized uses for this gun that it could do better than most.

1. Snake gun. If you need to blast a snake or small animal at close range, .410 is better than pistol caliber shotshells. Maybe you need to kill a Coon in the attic but you don't want to blast a hole in the roof. You get the idea anyway.

2. Anti-carjacking gun. Like someone said, this would be perfect at close range against a carjacker or mugger.

 

[carebear]

looks like it would be fun to shoot...

looks can be deceiving....