15 shot .38 revolver???????

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I caught the last 2 minutes of "Guns n Gear" on NBC Sports cable channel. They were shooting Desert Eagles, but at the very end, the host mentions how he loves shooting this "15 shot .38 special (I think). He then appears to fire 15 consecutive shots. It kinda looked like a Smith with a non-fluted cylinder, but it was quick and I couldn't tell.

Does anyone know if I was seeing things, or is this a real gun? I haven't found anything about it online.

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Don't know about that, but how about a 24-shot .38?

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In Firearms Curiousa Lewis Winant lists all sort of strange creations, some of which were actually made. I read an account about Ed McGivern, one time he was firing an M1911, it jammed, the reporter covering the story wrote that McGivern was firing so fast that one buller followed the previous one too closely and tied up the action.
 
I think it was a spoof .

It kept showing a diff camera angle after 4 or 5 shots , so I think he reloaded .

No way did that gun have a 15 shot capacity .


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Sometimes I wonder how many rounds the gun could hold if S&W ever decided to make an N-frame .22LR. They crammed 10 into the 617, and 8 rounds of .38/.357 fit in the 627, so they might well get 15 rounds into something like that.

Timing it would be a cast iron pain though.
 
Sometimes I wonder how many rounds the gun could hold if S&W ever decided to make an N-frame .22LR. They crammed 10 into the 617, and 8 rounds of .38/.357 fit in the 627, so they might well get 15 rounds into something like that.
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It could be done. But would you buy it?


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I read an account about Ed McGivern, one time he was firing an M1911, it jammed, the reporter covering the story wrote that McGivern was firing so fast that one buller followed the previous one too closely and tied up the action.
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That can't happen as described. The slide takes a considerable amount of time to cycle--at least in terms of how long it takes the bullet to traverse the barrel length.

By the time the barrel has unlocked from the slide (before the slide has traveled more than half an inch backwards), the bullet has already exited the barrel. I don't have exact numbers, but the slide probably takes around 50 times longer to complete its full cycle than it takes the bullet to leave the muzzle.

What is more likely is that one load was a squib load that drove the bullet just far enough into the barrel to cycle the action but not far enough to get it out the muzzle and the next round jammed behind the bullet lodged in the bore.
 
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