STRANGE 18TH CENTURY PISTOL WITH FEEDING MAGAZINE

[Gil Boyd]

Found this during the week...........interested to see if anybody knows the development date of this way ahead of its time hammer pistol and magazine fed action??

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[RCS]

Called the "Harmonica pistol" in the US, most were percussion some pinfire, many variations

[browningautorifle]

It's made in both pistol and rifle. I can see chainfire being a thing here.

[Gil Boyd]

Thanks for that. My original image shows a clear channel, just wondering if it moved after each shot to the left using that channel rather than being moved manually. Compare that one to the Harmonica type action certainly a different design.

[rcathey]

Ian was being clever with that video title.

The harmonica is a Johnathan Browning design...not John Moses Browning. The senior Browning was a firearms designer as well.