You guys get on your thinking caps and help a fellow out.
I am looking for examples, any example, of a cartridge revolver (or a conversion of a percussion revolver) from the 18870-1880 era that had an octagonal barrel.
I'm pretty sure that someone in the Old West was carting around an octagonal barrel revolver, but for the life of me, I can't find any documentation. I've even thought about writing the NRA Museum.
If you come up with something, let me know.
The "open-top" (no backstrap) Colt Navy conversions had octagon barrels, and so did the Remington Army conversions. Taylor's Firearms has a number of them in their catalog.
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ReplyDelete1858 New Model Remington Army .44 Caliber along the lines you were inquiring about?
Rogers and Spenser Army Revolver ,44 RF . Remington Model 1858 .46 RF .
ReplyDeleteI’ve been beaten to the punch on the Remington 1858, but the wiki page for them has a handy chart with manufacturing dates and barrel/caliber options.
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I have a repro Remington cap-and-ball revolver with an octagonal barrel which I'm pretty sure is based on the original, and there are conversions to cartridge.
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Those conversions to take modern cartridges were a wide open field. All sorts of gunsmiths doing them on all kinds of revolvers.
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