Auto-Revolver?

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FUD

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Is there any advantage to an Auto-Revolver (" ... This unique handgun combines the best qualities of both revolver & pistol in a truly state-of-the-art firearm. The Auto-Revolver features a single action trigger for optimum accuracy. When the gun is fired, a unique reciprocating cylinder, which fires from the bottom chamber rather than the top, cycles the slide and cocks the hammer ... ")? I'm looking at a picture of this thing right now and trying to figure out how it works. Does anyone have any experience with any of these? With prices starting at $1149, I'm not exactly going to run out and buy one but I am curious what benefits it might have over a regular pistol or revolver.
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Fud, unless you have an overwhelming taste for knicknacks and an overabundance of excess cash.....don't go there. They are fascinating from an engineering or mechanical standpoint. Our beloved revolvers already have more parts than autos and we don't really need additional things that can go wrong. The advantage of always having single action trigger pull is dubious at best. Our old smiths have double action pull that is good enough for all but the most discerning target shooter.

The old brit Webley Fosbury auto revolvers are a case in point, fun to play with but nobody that I ever heard of voluntarily used one for either target or defense.

Simplicity = insurance against Murphy.

Sam.....gew gaw geek but not that one.
 
WHere is the picture?

I have no idea about how something of this nature works but I sure as hell would like to see one.

Interesting to say the least.

~Jason
 
Jason, click on the link in my opening post and go to their web site. Download their *.pdf catalog and look in there.
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[ HumpMan, thanks for the image ]
Sam, I don't ever see myself buying one because it seems to just too weird to trust my life to it but I wouldn't mind handling one just to see how it shoots & operates.

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CR SAM,

"The old brit Webley Fosbury auto revolvers are a case in point, fun to play with but nobody that I ever heard of voluntarily used one for either target or defense."

Well, I don't know about defense, but you'd be wrong about the target aspect.

The Webley Fosbury automatic revolver, in .455 Webley, had a reputation as one of the most accurate handguns of its period.

Many of the top military target shooters, and many civilians, in Britain used the W-F to set most British target shooting records prior to the 1930s.



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An unusual firearm, for sure, if we are talking about the Mateba revolver:

http://www.americanarms.com/mateba.htm

It is also the featured sweepstakes gun in the recent Guns Magazine. I believe it is the issue with the Taurus Millenium pistol on the cover. This issue has a very large photo of the Mateba auto revolver.
 
For a target shooter, the appeal of the Mateba is that it combines the trigger action of a semiauto with the accuracy and feed reliability of a revolver. And while the price is very high, it's comparable to that of other European target pistols.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by C.R.Sam:
Thanks Mike for the correction.

Would that maby have been cause twas the best that THEY had.?

Sam[/quote]

Hum, I don't know if I would say that. There were some pretty high end target pistols from that age.

But, from the fact that it did so well in competition, even though it was an abnormality, and even though logic dictates that it wouldn't be a very good target gun due to the excess of moving parts, it was.



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Chances are he knows how to use it.
 
Discharging from the lower cylinder makes a tremendous deal of sense. Here's why. The higher the bore from the web of the hand, the greater the torque upon firing. By lowering the bore such that it is closer to the web, the torque is reduced. This makes recoil more controllable and follow up shots faster.

When Fosbery first developed the semi-auto revolver, his prototypes were built on Colt SAA revolvers.
 
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