Gunroom
Sep 29, 2021
2 minutes
The so-called transitional revolver has always piqued my curiosity. These guns pair the frame and grip of a pepperbox-type revolver with a short cylinder, bored with a number of chambers. It is for that reason people imagine them to be some sort of missing link between the pepperbox-type and the perfected revolver, famously patented by Sam Colt in 1836.
Pepperbox revolvers had been about since the mid-1830s.
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