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Rob Mancebo
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| Posted 7/12/2008 9:16 PM (GMT -5) |   |
darkbow said...Oh, there's a bunch of rare, cool weapons from the 19th century. One of my favorites is the LeMat, a 9-shot percussion cap revolver with a second barrel that fires a shotgun blast! Even the Volcano repeaters are interesting, but I've never fired one and they look sort of clumsy.
- LeMat, ah yes, a favorite of JEB Stuart. Most civil war buffs will recognize that one. I've got one out in the safe that was my father-in-law's. Very nice but they point like an old single-shot rather than a revolver (different grip style).
- The Volcanic action was simply beefed-up to become the Winchester 66 (Via the Henry).
The volcanic fired an impotent little 'rocketball' cartridge (Like a German 'Needle-gun). Not a bad action, but a terrible round. So B.Tyler Henry, Winchester's foreman, created the rimfire .44 cartridge to use with it and the Volcanic was turned into a repeating rifle. They called it the 'Henry Rifle' after the foreman, but in 1866 when they added a split firing pin and a loading gate, it was re-named the 'Winchester 66' (The serial numbers of the Henry and the Winchester 66 overlap.) [As a side-note, as soon as those cartridges hit the market, all sorts of people side-stepped the Smith&Wesson patent and drilled out their cap-lock Colts and Remingtons to take the new .44 cartridges. No more cap fragments in the action--no more wet powder--faster to load. That's what every pistolero had been waiting for!]
- So, if you want to fire a 'Volcanic', just swing by some Cowboy Action Shooting and borrow someone's Henry or Winchester '66 you'll be using the same action.
The Wastelander
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