Rifle With A Cylinder?

No, they don't, because those aren't revolvers...

They're pepperboxes.

Whoops, I forgot about that one. So, it still doesn't count because the "buttstock" requires a jet engine and weighs 50,000+ pounds.
 
Actually the first guns produced at the Colt Paterson factory were revolving rifles. The revolving pistols came afterward and even shotguns. Then, just as now, revolvers are best held at arm's length.
 
Don't forget the precursor to the Colt Root Revolver rifle,

the Colt Harmonica rifle.

Actually, used a sliding horizontal box "nag" that indexed over after each shot.

There's an old John Wayne movie that preceded "Rio Bravos" that the old time hunter used one. The actor I think played "Wishbone" in "Rawhide" TV series???
 
Picked up a Taurus "circuit judge" today at a LGS seemed like a novelty. I can't really see the practicality. They had 2, one with the standard 'judge' cylinder (45,410) and a shorter cylinder model in 44mag. The only use I see is if you only owned a 44mag or 45colt handgun and only wanted to but I type of ammo.

BTW, the idiot at the LGS, kept saying it took '45 long colt'. Then proceeded to sell a guy (who said hes not into target shooting) a box of FMJ ammo he called full metal case, target ammo he claimed was great for home defense. (I had been holding my tongue, but At that point I had to chime I that 'target' ammo was only really good for punching holes in paper)
 
Remember the rifle that "Bull" carried in El Dorado?

I always thought that was cool but never knew just what it was. Caliber, maker, etc. I figured Colt but didn't know anything else.

Anybody know what that was?
 
"BTW, the idiot at the LGS, kept saying it took '45 long colt'."

Yes, so many people think that this is some sort of monumental sin. You need to hop in a time machine and go back 100 or more years and find the first heretic who dared to utter the words Long and Colt together.

Either that or just accept that Long Colt has for decades been a part of the firearms culture and somehow find a way to make peace with it.

"Then proceeded to sell a guy (who said hes not into target shooting) a box of FMJ ammo he called full metal case..."

Take a look at a box of Remington-UMC valueline ammo lately?

Easy to see where he got the term when Remington calls it... metal case.

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"he claimed was great for home defense."

Yeah, that's pretty bad.
 
Oh it is definitely part of firearm's culture. The fact that most don't even know how it originated or what cartridge the "Long" was used to differentiate does not lend much credibility to its use. Most assume, incorrectly, that it is to differentiate the .45Colt from the ACP. A few get closer and think it has something to do with the .45S&W. How people might think you need to throw a "Long" in there to differentiate .45Colt and .45S&W is beyond me. Most people that say ".45Long Colt" don't even know the .45Gov't existed and why. It is typically used so the counter monkeys don't confuse it with .45ACP (:confused:) and by people who don't know any better.
 
Berdan and Colt rifles

Yeah, the Sharpshooters use of the Colt rifle also was documented in an American Rifleman article just a few years back. I don't remember if the article was on the rifle, or the regiments.

Hugely disliked, and a bit fragile to boot. They did have a rate of rife initially that was considered a plus.

I'll look for the article.
 
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