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Revolving Rifles

Porter Turret Rifle (2nd Variation) – Unsafe in Any Direction

March 7, 2018 Ian McCollum 12

The Porter Turret Rifle was patented in 1851 by Perry W. Porter, and is a vertical turret design – meaning that it has a revolving cylinder in which the chambers are aligned pointing outward radially […]

Antiques

Miller Pill-Lock Revolving Rifle

April 24, 2017 Ian McCollum 9

John and James Miller of Rochester New York designed and built this rifle, which is an example of an intermediate revolving firearm. It comes after the flintlock Collier guns, but before Sam Colt’s Paterson demonstrated […]

Revolving Rifles

Colt Paterson No.1 Carbine (Video)

November 30, 2016 Ian McCollum 13

Sam Colt’s very first work was done in Baltimore, but this ended fairly quickly, and it was with his subsequent move to Paterson New Jersey that the first true production Colt firearms were made. Colt […]

Flintlock

Nock 6-Barrel Flintlock (Video)

November 16, 2016 Ian McCollum 10

Henry Nock was a highly respected and very talented British gunsmith, who manufactured a wide variety of arms including military muskets for the British Army. He is probably best known on the internet for his […]

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RIA: 15mm Belgian Pinfire Revolving Rifle

April 16, 2016 Ian McCollum 31

The pinfire system was a popular type of early self-contained metallic cartridge in Europe, but didn’t find much use in the United States. Pinfire revolvers were made in a variety of calibers from 5mm up […]

Percussion

RIA: Porter Turret Rifle

February 7, 2016 Ian McCollum 23

The Porter was one of the few turret rifles ever put into serial production. Turret rifles are similar in principle to revolvers, but they is a cylinder with radial chambers (like the spokes of a […]

Revolving Rifles

RIA: Wesson & Leavitt Revolving Rifle

September 2, 2015 Ian McCollum 7

The Wesson & Leavitt is one of the scarcest revolving rifles made in the US, with no more than 50 made (some sources say only 16). The reason for this is that the Dragoon revolver […]

Revolving Rifles

Colt 1855 10-Gauge Revolving Shotgun at RIA

June 4, 2015 Ian McCollum 14

In 1855, Colt introduced a new revolver unlike the others in their lineup – it was a side-hammer design with the cylinder stops built into the axis pin instead of the cylinder. They then proceeded […]

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Revolving Rifles

Mexican Pieper Revolving Carbine

January 28, 2015 Ian McCollum 26

I often find myself answering the question, why didn’t anybody adopt a revolving rifle based on the M1895 gas-seal Nagant revolver? It does seem like a natural solution to the gas-related problems inherent to a […]

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LeMat Centerfire Pistol and Carbine at RIA

November 28, 2014 Ian McCollum 19

Colonel LeMat is best known for his 9-shot muzzleloading .42 caliber revolver with its 20 gauge shot barrel acting as cylinder axis pin – several thousand of these revolvers were imported and used in the […]

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