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Re: Colt Revolving Rifles & Shotguns
      28/10/14 01:35 AM

if Colonel Colt had gone the step to breech loading cartridges a little bit earlier he had avoid the chain fire problem. here you have a revolving carbine by Lefaucheux in Paris Mod 1858











http://www.galeriedemars.fr/allfolks/CFA2007_frameset_UK.html
65 cm long barrel, shoot the long 12 mm Pinfire carbine cartridge

such revolving carbine had have some popularity in the 1860s
here is a Liege made copy in 10mm pinfire in the next Hermann Historica auction



http://www.hermann-historica.de/db2_de/onlinekatalogeneu/schusswaffenneu.html

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Edited by lancaster (28/10/14 03:20 PM)

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