New EMF 1851 Pepperbox

[F.G. Ford]

Question: Did any pepper box have a reliable rotation method, similar to colt.
Most that I have seen, you rotate by hand, and then they lock up....maybe.
Old Ford

 

[David W.]

I'm not sure about that statement on reliability. Accurate they weren't!

Here's an example of a real pocket pistol!

 

[Emet Huntsman]

Mine is actually a double action -- cylinder rotates as trigger is pulled. :thumbsup:

 

[Emet Huntsman]

I Love it! Volley Gun cut down?
Seems they beat the 16 shot repeater by a century or more. My SR9 just barely holds more :rotf:

 

[Lou G.]

The basis for EMF's "1851 Pepperbox" was a handgun found by Herb Houze (the Colt/ Winchester authority) in Canada in the 1970s, and was then owned by a collector named Jimmy Fielder. It was made by attaching a barrel cluster of the Blunt & Syms type, about five inches long, to the frame of a Colt M1860 Army. Its present location is unknown, but there are other handguns of this kind in existence. One such gun, a double-action percussion Bentley, with a revolver-style frame and a typical pepperbox barrel cluster, is shown on Plate 11 of W. C. Dowell's "The Webley Story" and undoubtedly there are (or were) others out there as well.

 

[junkman_01]

As Ned Pepper said to Rooster Cogburn in 'True Grit'....."Too thin". :shake:

 

[F.G. Ford]

I'm looking forward to seeing that gun.
It has been a while that any new gun has been produced by any gunmaker.
Many black powder gun manufacturers are calling it quits!
Old Ford

 

[junkman_01]

LouG.

Now THAT's what I call a 'reference'. I see the 'family resemblance' to the EMF thing now. Good research work. :bow: Here it is as a jpg photo...