Speaking of guns...

[zippyt]

and another link for the madusa ,
http://www.cadco.com/firearms/pri.htm
Interesting revolver , but pricey !!!!!

The dan wesson conversion pistol talked about earlyer had different barrel inserts and cylenders , a nice boxed set .

[slang]

Great pistol there. Damn shame the background on the website contrasts in such a way as to give visitors a headache trying to read the micro text.

[Crimson Ghost]

Originally Posted by wolf

Do you remember how it handled the different size cartridges? I'm assuming that it actually revolved and you had some way of switching calibers, rather than having a static cylinder with one of each cartridge loaded for use through each of the three barrels ...

Yup. It had an oversized cylinder (.22 inner, .38 center, and .45 outer), if I remember right. A selector switch repositioned the hammer, thus repositioning the firing pin. As I said, it was 20 years ago, so I might be wrong on the operation of the weapon.

[zippyt]

CG , sorry dude but that is impossable !!!!
A .22 inner with a .45 outer ??????
impossible ,
reason 1) Does the .22 bullet just jump from the cylinder to the barrel ???
reason 2) a .22 sized hole is WAY smaller than a .45 sized hole . Did it just squeeze the lead from a .45 down to .22 ?? Long and thin bullet there .

Now the hammer switch i rember so it could switch from center fire to rim fire .

[slang]

Impossible, but hey Zip.....wouldnt that be great to own!?

[zippyt]

Oh hell yeah Slang !!! just dump a mixed box of ammo in it and it would sound like this " pop , BOOM , pop, pop , BOOM !!!"

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yup. It had an oversized cylinder (.22 inner, .38 center, and .45 outer), if I remember right.

A .22 inner with a .45 outer ?????? impossible

"Dan Wesson" (a weapons maker, for those who may not know) made a tri-barrel revolver about 20 years ago.

[zippyt]

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Yup. It had an oversized cylinder (.22 inner, .38 center, and .45 outer), if I remember right.

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A .22 inner with a .45 outer ?????? impossible

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"Dan Wesson" (a weapons maker, for those who may not know) made a tri-barrel revolver about 20 years ago.

Think about that bruce .45 is roughly 1/2 an inch x 2 ( i am assuming that it was a 6 shot ) =1 inch ,
.357 + .22 = .577 x 2 = 1.054 inch , plus supporting steel so the cylinder doesn't blow up when you shoot . so we are talking about a 3-4 inch piece of steel , heavy , and how the hell would you time it ( so the cylinder ligns up for all 3 calibers ) ????? Tri barrel gun with the frame to support all this , again heavy , did it have 3 different sets of sights ???? sorry but i don't think so.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Maybe that's why it wasn't a success, but not impossible. I should have asked him.