i just traded for this today so anyone have one and any advise much appreciated??

[noelf2]

Yes I have one. I use a Howell's 45 Colt conversion cylinder. Mine shoots best with round ball (either in cartridges or c&b cylinder), but plenty good with 200 grain lead bullets as well. I wouldn't use it for deer, but smaller critters are fair game.

 

[midland man]

i hope this pic is good as this is off my phone which is all i have! but first two shots were low and so raising the rear sight twice the last four shots were in the bullseye at 25yrds.

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

I think you would have to have a case made (or DIY) if you want a perfect fit because this carbine length falls between the lengths of handgun and even short rifle cases.
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/List/Item.aspx/28/1

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Concur. Both hands back. I read about Berdan Sharp Shooters being injured when they supported their 1855 Root Revolving Rifles by the wood forearm. The men generally hated those guns.

I wonder...could a guy wear a long leather "gauntlet" on the left arm? Maybe buckskin with some fringe...might look pretty cool, and allow holding the carbine normally. ??

 

[hawg]

I wonder...could a guy wear a long leather "gauntlet" on the left arm? Maybe buckskin with some fringe...might look pretty cool, and allow holding the carbine normally. ??

That would probably work with chamber flash but a chain fire would probably still hurt. Granted a chain from the side doesn't have much force behind it but it would leave a nasty gash unprotected.

 

[Ugly Sauce]

I didn't thunk of that. !!!

 

[Ugly Sauce]

That would probably work with chamber flash but a chain fire would probably still hurt. Granted a chain from the side doesn't have much force behind it but it would leave a nasty gash unprotected.

That could ruin one's accuracy, wondering if you were going to get one of those one-in-one-thousand chain-fires every time you pulled the trigger. !!! And that errant runaway ball would probably strike one right in the wrist. Well, it would work I guess with a cartridge firing revolving carbine or rifle. Maybe I'll have Jack or Mike make me a cartridge conversion revolving carbine, and wear the gauntlet. Yeah right! (but how cool would that be?)(Very very cool)

 

[Ephraim Kibbey]

Midway's price:
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1002300125

plus a conversion cylinder:
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1020684298?pid=377483

and you are almost to the price of the one Uberti makes for cartridges:
https://www.uberti-usa.com/1873-revolver-carbine-and-buntline#:~:text=The Uberti 1873 Revolver Carbine,icons of the Old West.

 

[noelf2]

Midway's price:
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1002300125

plus a conversion cylinder:
https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1020684298?pid=377483

and you are almost to the price of the one Uberti makes for cartridges:
https://www.uberti-usa.com/1873-revolver-carbine-and-buntline#:~:text=The Uberti 1873 Revolver Carbine,icons of the Old West.

But you can't shoot that thing with cap and ball. I have best of both worlds.

 

[midland man]

well guys i love mine and now wished i had gotten one years ago!

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Howdy

I used to think this was a fantasy gun that did not actually exist, but Ian McCollumIan has proved me wrong.

Here is a link to one of Ian's Forgotten Weapons videos, all about the Remington revolving rifle. The one Ian has is a cartridge conversion model, but he goes into quite a lot of detail regarding the genesis of the rifle, and why they ultimately were not very successful.

By the way, if you are shooting a percussion model, absolutely keep your hands from in front of the cylinder.

Spoken by one who has experienced a chain fire in a Cap & Ball revolver.

Whenever I watch Lonesome Dove it drives me crazy that this outlaw did not know that.



Anyway, here is a link to Ian's video:

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Colt produced more than a couple revolving shotguns and rifles. As far as I know, they didn't make one based on a production revolver. ?

 

[Ugly Sauce]

Whenever I watch Lonesome Dove it drives me crazy that this outlaw did not know that.

Drives me crazy that producers and directors don't know nothing, or have a tech advisor that knows more than which end the bullet comes out of.

 

[Miguel Loco]

I agree. That can ruin a movie for me. For instance ...... Kevin Costner's buscadero holster rig in the movie Wyatt Earp, made it all but unwatchable for me.

 

[hawg]

At one point it came with a percussion and a cartridge cylinder.

 

[Driftwood Johnson]

Colt produced more than a couple revolving shotguns and rifles. As far as I know, they didn't make one based on a production revolver. ?

That is correct. As Ian said in his video, Colt did not make any rifles based on their revolvers. Colt's revolving rifles were larger and were larger calibers. Remington's revolver was based on the New Model Army Cap & Ball revolver and used the same frame, slightly modified for the rifle version.

Smith and Wesson however made some very fancy cartridge rifles base on their New Model Number Three revolver.