OK... this is cool... 12 shot revolver...

[Magnum Wheel Man]

if ammo were still available... I'd have to get in on the bidding... but I guess I'll just have to sit back & watch...

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=247942270

 

[MLeake]

Not sure I'd want a 5.5mm... Louis L'Amour had a couple of his characters carry a Walch .36 Navy Revolver.

http://www.prices4antiques.com/firearms-edged-weapons/hand-guns/Hand-Gun-Revolver-Walch-Navy-Model-Revolver-12-Shot-Cylinder-36-Caliber-D9911296.htm

Those look interesting, but I imagine they were too complex for maintenance.

 

[James K]

The hammer could be altered to fire .22 rimfire. There was another Belgian revolver that fired (I think) 14 rounds that had two rows of chambers and a movable hammer nose.

Jim

 

[Slowhand]

European Revolvers

This French LeFaucheux was a little too expensive for me. I had to let it go.

I didn't bother checking the price on this one. The engraved look plus that extractor rod, which reminds me of a bathroom sink, would no doubt be expensive.

I got into those old French and Belgium revolvers, when I acquired a Guardian Model of 1878 in 9mm last year. That foreign look, combined with some of them having a cylinder designed to hold 12 to 20 rounds just blows me away.

 

[mega twin]

Looks like the cylinder is at least 3" in diameter.

 

[Cheapshooter]

Ya gotta love the days when the Velo Dog revolver was marketed to bicyclists to shoot dogs that were nipping at their feet!!!
Try that one today!!!

 

[pvt.Long]

you could try and find a lemat or a nagant.

 

[Slowhand]

Le Mat

You betcha! I’d love to have one of Col. Le Mat ‘s “Grapeshot” Revolvers. 9 Pin fire .44 Caliber rounds with a 20 Gauge shotgun barrel. But those prices are something else. Even for a replica.

I'm not cheap. I'm just not easy.