Are "pepperbox" revolvers good for anything?

[Oleg Volk]

I saw and fired a six-shot .22LR pepperbox (made by Cobray) and was not impressed. The barrels have to be rotates manually and the trigger was heavy...I did not think it ws worth $109 new. However, thinking about it, I realized that this device was as small as a NAA Mini and less complicated or fragile.

Has anyone experience with better-made pepperboxes, maybe with mechanically rotated barrels? Do they have a niche which they fill better than other types?

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Oleg "peacemonger" Volk

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[Jim V]

I have had some experience with cap and ball originals. None of them had any accuracy that I wanted to depend on. Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) had a story about the lack of accuracy of pepperboxes.

The COP .357 Mag models (4 shots) had the same horrid accuracy, weighed a "ton" and had trigger pulls that would give an ox a hernia according to a friend of mine. He had his for about a month before unloading it on some pigeon, err, selling it to a collector of fine arms.

I don't see what nitch the pepperbox would fill. They are one of those things that make one ask, "Why?"

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