| Author | Message | ||
     Kyrocket |
Interested to see what you guys have to say. Personally I think it's novelty. The grip has to be huge comparatively speaking. It can be had with one trigger or two, does that mean each barrel can be fired individually? Making it 16 individual rounds or is it only eight double rounds? It looks neat, kinda like a lamborghini, I'd never own one but I'd like to drive one once just to see what it's like. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Watch "Green Hornet". You'd have to fire both barrels together or the thing's going to twist in your grip, & if both are firing together there's going to be some kind of recoil I'd imagine. | ||
| Aesquire |
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| Slaughter |
Hollywood. Noise, flash, gimmicks. TO quote Elmer Keith, "Hits count." | ||
| Reepicheep |
A stupid little gimmick, though it did take some fabrication skills. I wonder how they synchronized the firing pins to keep the single slide from firing both rounds while still in battery. I wonder if a misfire in one round will still cycle the slide. | ||
| Blake |
Model 1922?  | ||
| Xdigitalx |
thats strange, I have been having dreams of doing that to my Uly. | ||
| Blake |
Looks pretty cool to me. Doubtful it would cycle if one side misfires. Misfire in a standard pistol requires manual clearing too though, and puts no projectile down range. The double trigger seems ungainly. For me, a single trigger would be better. I wonder how the ballistic flight characteristics are affected by the pair of bullets. A subsonic round like the 45 ACP would seem to have an advantage in such an application; the shock waves of supersonic rounds would likely cause significant perturbations to the bullet trajectory. Even subsonic seems like they'd be affected. Maybe the gun is designed to fire one round slightly in advance to help diminish such an effect. Interesting. All that said, is the amount of lead down-range really the primary parameter for choosing a handgun? Does anyone make 45 ACP shot shells? Load one side with bullets, the other with shot shells? | ||
| Blake |
Google says yes. http://www.gunweek.com/2005/feature1001.html http://www.eastexshootingsupply.com/ccispeer-shotshell-117gr-shotshell-3745-p-33455.html Interesting. (Message edited by Blake on March 13, 2012) | ||
| Sifo |
Looks like a solution in search of a problem to me. The two triggers would have to be tied together. It's probably just that the gun is so fat they had to do that to make it ambidextrous. You wouldn't want to fire just one side simply because if it does manage to cycle the slide (doubtful) you would eject an unfired round from one side. I too wonder about the syncing of the firing pins. A slightly slow primer (it happens) would likely cause one side to fire while out of battery. Unnecessary complexity is seldom a good thing in a gun. Nice novelty piece though. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
http://www.shootersdepot.com/shortbarrelshotguns.h tml 'pistol' is a loose term. | ||
| Kenm123t |
I want to see the Holster lol | ||
| Sifo |
Kind of reminds me of this which I really hope is a photoshop...  At least I have no interest in firing something like that. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Here you go Blake..  Revolver shotgun combo, circa Civil War... (Message edited by reepicheep on March 13, 2012) | ||
| Blake |
http://www.arsenalfirearms.com/products/af-2011-a1 -double-barrel-pistol Their server is slow, probably getting hammered. Looks like the video was just posted this morning. They say single or double trigger is optional. No price yet. | ||
| 2734 |
Only if it comes with threaded barrels and cans | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Dumb gun is dumb.  | ||
| Littlebuggles |
Novelty, definitely. Watch his face as he shoots it, he's rally working for it, and he's winded when done. Fun to watch the casings eject in either direction. It's funny how mechanically minded we are here, everyone is trying to get their heads' around this thing. | ||
| Cowboy |
I have a 410 ga. 2 bbl. pistol with 1 inch BBl | ||
| Ourdee |
You can get shotshells in .22 long rifle up to .45 long colt. | ||
| Sifo |
Just realize that pistol shot shells are designed for killing things like snakes, not bad guys. | ||
| Aesquire |
Reep, always loved the LaMat. Just a lotta boom in one package. Ahead of it's time. I am impressed with the double "2011". Now if they'd put that much work into a stainless steel copy of the Luger .45, the model tested by the US back in the beginning of the 20th century, I'd be thinking what I can do to save up for one. It's not the few years the Nazi's used them, it's the other century of history, and the fact that a Luger is just a mechanical wonder. One screw. Whole gun. ( holds on the grips ) assembles like a puzzle.. far too much hand work to be practical or profitable... but the tech used today by firms like USFirearms, with ultrahigh speed machining and 21st century CAD/CAM, could make it with no hand fitting. ( like USFirearms does with the 1873 Colt. A gun too expensive to make the old way ) Final thoughts. Great job on a novelty. The grip looks worse than an Automag, and that's saying something. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Blake, just get a Taurus Judge for one hand & a 9mm auto for the other. |
