Mateba

[MagnumDweeb]

You have to smile when you release the newer grey beards among gunnies grew up watching anime or have at least watched a series two.

I'm 27 going on 28 this year with my first grey hairs(balding already), and I own more guns than I ever thought possible. Sadly the Mateba came and went and may never come back.

The Mateba design is one that's fallen prey to the cost cutting measures of the late 21st century. It's easier with a greater profit margin to turn out guns doing MIM and CNC. So why would you would bother turning out a Mateba that's going to take five times as long to make, selling to a public with access to far more affordable firearms (and I'm saying $800 is affordable).

Only the more wealthy, or better able to sock their pennies away would be able to buy one, and for the price one new quality made Mateba, a purchaser could buy a couple new S&W revolvers and maybe used glock. It's hard to get out there and take a risk in the marketplace with that kind of reality staring you right in the face.

Coonan is trying a comeback with its .357 magnum 1911, but even then you have 'order' the pistol for around $1,300 and only get a couple of magazines and the magazines ain't cheap if you want more. Maybe the Mateba could make a comeback following that model. Order the gun for $1,400, wait six months, and get your gun. I could pull it off (the patience more of a challenge than the money so to speak), but could another thirty thousand customers do it as well.

 

[EvilGenius]

I just want a Tachikoma...

You can have 'em!

I want the tank from the original flick!

 

[yenningcomity]

Coonan is trying a comeback with its .357 magnum 1911, but even then you have 'order' the pistol for around $1,300 and only get a couple of magazines and the magazines ain't cheap if you want more. Maybe the Mateba could make a comeback following that model. Order the gun for $1,400, wait six months, and get your gun. I could pull it off (the patience more of a challenge than the money so to speak), but could another thirty thousand customers do it as well.

I cannot say I am a fan of the coonan. It does not appear to have the fit and finish. Besides, if I want a semi auto handcanon I would rather have a desert eagle. I was originally debating getting one in 357, but will probably hold off. Even with reloading, jacketed and plated ammunition are not cheap.

As for mateba coming back no idea. The designer sold off his stake in the company so last I heard it was owned by a German investor. I handled a rhino at the gunshow yesterday and while you can see the similarities in the design, it felt cheap.

 

[Dnaltrop]

Emilio Ghisoni, The designer of the Mateba created the Rhino afterward and died in '08 before it reached full production.

So we need to find ourselves a NEW gun "mad scientist" somewhere and give them seed money.

http://matebafan.com/ghisoni.html

 

[HDCamel]

we need to find ourselves a NEW gun "mad scientist" somewhere and give them seed money.

Me and my two engineer former roommates are actually working on an autorevolver design.

 

[Justin]

The Mateba design is one that's fallen prey to the cost cutting measures of the late 21st century. It's easier with a greater profit margin to turn out guns doing MIM and CNC. So why would you would bother turning out a Mateba that's going to take five times as long to make, selling to a public with access to far more affordable firearms (and I'm saying $800 is affordable).

I think the bigger issue is that the guns are overly complex for a revolver, and, at least in my experience, many revolver enthusiasts tend to be traditionalists who wouldn't be likely to adopt a semi-auto revolver. I still can remember back in the late 1990s when CDNN was blowing out Matebas for under $500.

 

[DPris]

The Mateba died because there was insufficient market for a large, clunky, complex, expensive gun that really offered no benefit over existing conventional revolvers.
Its primary value & appeal was strictly as a novelty gun.

It shot no better than a standard revolver, and as far as I know nobody made leather to carry it in.
Denis

 

[Dnaltrop]

I don't think that changing the physics by firing from the bottom cylinder is *no* benefit, ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O217lS2kVRk Rhino but close enough) but the rest of the gun was indeed complicated and strayed far enough from the norm to guarantee it would never gain traction.

There will never be a huge market for "weird" guns, but think of how boring the world would be if all that existed were SAA's and Glocks. Someone has to be different somewhere for our own good.

I still want to re-create a functional Josselyn Chain pistol.

 

[Justin]

It shot no better than a standard revolver, and as far as I know nobody made leather to carry it in.

I wouldn't go that far. Felt recoil with a Mateba is less than with a traditional revolver, and the gun is extremely accurate.

 

[JHenry]

Me and my two engineer former roommates are actually working on an autorevolver design

Im sort of intrigued, elaborate please

 

[HDCamel]

Im sort of intrigued, elaborate please

It's actually a magazine-fed autoloader with multiple revolving chambers rather than a standard autorevolver. The revolver part is mostly to alleviate cook-off with caseless ammunition, but also for added strength while minimizing bulk since the magazine I've designed should also load conventional .357 Magnum and .38 Special cartridges.

It's working out on paper so far, but we're still quite a ways off from building a prototype.

 

[JHenry]

Hmm i understand where your going but im having a hard time picturing it.

Well, Good Luck

 

[Mr.454]

Beautiful gun, I'm extremely jealous. Also it is nice to see some other anime fans on the forum. Now we just need the protagonist's revolver from Wicked City. The revolver version of the angry cricket from Men in Black.