Volcanic Pistol Shooting

[wmaught7]

You can see a Volcanic rifle in the movie For a Few Dollars More. Eastwood holds it during the final duel when he lends his pistol to Van Cleef. Notice that the rifle is not fired during the movie. Would be pretty hard to make a studio blank without converting the gun.

[Gizord1]

Dang, you're lucky! How did you get your hands on one of those babies?

[tiagandremo]

do the shooting and cocking with 1 hand, would look kick ass

[ermaslv44]

shoot with one hand lad

[vinosd773]

i want a gun like this sooo bad, how much was it??

[sweetstickyicky]

SO COOL

[carjunks]

I know a gentleman who replicated the muzzle end of a volcanic. It was time consuming. Looks 100% original tho.

[pecospest]

i would call it a henry pistol , not a volcanic , since the volcanic shot caseless ammunition .

[sludemage]

A real man shoots with one hand

[john4knecht]

This is amazing I've allways wanted a Volcanic pistol. My dream combination for civil war reenacting is a Henry and a Volcanic Did you make this if so how did you go about it?

[ShaneKarma376]

arrrrrr arrrggg arggghhhh < making Tim Allen sound from Home Improvement.

[NirvanaFG45]

thats neat! a lever action pistol

[LiamtheDub]

de veins on yer mans arms!!!!

[DoughboyJonesmk2]

That is severely cool. *high five*

[Dawgmeatt]

So it's basically a mini repeater rifle, I get it.

[Thatevilmidget]

Very cool! I haven't ever seen a firing Volcanic before... Frankly I always thought they were some of the most interesting pistols ever made (seriously, it had to take a mad scientist type person to think of a lever action handgun)

[arrkhal]

Have you seen those vaguely similar guns where the breech is kind of like a "fake hammer," and it feeds even shorter rounds from an underbarrel tube mag, but you just "cock" the "fake hammer"? I want to try making one of those that fires a shortened .380 (might need custom cast hollow base bullets, to have room for the powder?), but the internals are even more ridiculous than a volcanic. Not remembering the name doesn't help, either...

[virginian800]

@arrkhal

You are talking about that "Reminton Rider, Magazine Pistol".

That is a cool gun.

[arrkhal]

@virginian800 That's what it was called!  Thanks.

[TheRadioman1976]

It's almost impossible to believe that Winchester and Smith and Wesson got their start from that gun.

[piutesteve]

yours works great!! Man those togle links are a bitch. I don't have a cnc I am an old hand cranker. But I will get it done . I have made some other guns. check out my videos search for; piutesteve all one word all lower case I think the volcanic is the hardest project so far. did you have an original to look at?

[piutesteve]

I am also building a Volcanic but mine is a rifle. It's going to shoot 380 pistol rounds. I had to fudge the length a little. The receiver is done the stock is band sawed out and fitted to the receiver. But I can't figure out how to do that twisting part of the barrel were the magazine opens. Do you have any pictures? or can you tell me were I find some

[virginian800]

@piutesteve

That you said you had to fudge the length a litte, tells me you are serious and know what you are up against..

I had to shorten the Cartridge to keep the original length. heck out the following link, if "YouTube" allows it.

No, it want.

Then, just search for home-build Volcanic.

[5aq]

How would it be to fire it one handed?

[xXhunter47Xx]

LOL It's like a tiny 1887. Which one came first?

[cloudycolacorp]

@xXhunter47Xx the gun that this was based off came first

[JEFFRAAYY]

I have one of those

[Dtac25]

Sure is a sweet pistol. I love the guns made in the 1800's

[MrMarcusLangseth]

@Dtac25 they have such intrigue, don't they

[TheRebelman95]

what caliber is it?

[virginian800]

@TheRebelman95

40 caliber ~ 140 grain bullet at about 900 feet per second.

[TheRebelman95]

@virginian800 rimfire

[virginian800]

@TheRebelman95

Centerfire,

cases were made from highly modified 40 S+W.

[TheRebelman95]

@virginian800 strange, i like it. You really must be an amazing machiner and gunsmith

[CarapuceShiney]

Tu es français?

Et il ne ressemble pas au Volcanic, pourtant...

Sinon, pour exercer la cadence, tu fais comme avec les carabines?

[nepobedivititanik]

Just amaising!!! =D

[matt101797]

you should make a lemat revolver

[nozero1]

Have you ever tried doing the one handed, quick flick down thing to cock it? Or will that just knacker the lever mechanism?

[E2theSamps]

@nozero1

I recall someone asking him that before. I believe his answer was that there was not enough weight in the gun to do so.

[nozero1]

@E2theSamps Ah, thanks. Do you know if that would have been the case with the original models, or were they constructed from heavy enough metals to make it possible?

[supaluigi96]

you made this gun ? your a hell of a gunsmith ever made any other unique guns ?

[virginian800]

@supaluigi96

Yes, - - - Thank You.

Yes, I have made several unique guns, but this is the only one that I have a video of.

[supaluigi96]

@virginian800 yea i hope to be a gunsmith one day, hopefully able to make cool guns like the volcanic pistol and schofield

[Wedwickboy]

@virginian800 it would be cool if you could make a borchardt

[silentra008]

round the lever duke

[AlaricxMalgraith]

@hydralisk90

DRD doesn't depict the Volcanic pistol as lever-action.

[xaxie1]

That pistol must be incredibly inefficent to use, I mean why not just use a revolver?

I wouldent want to pull back a lever each time, a rifle maybe but not a pistol :L

[virginian800]

@xaxie1

You are right.

That is why they quit making this kind of pistol over 150 years ago.

This Volcanic is not the ultimate, end of the road, of repeating pistol evolution,

It was one of the very first, made back in the 1850's

For me, it is just one cool and historic gun.

That is why I built it.

[1Morey]

HA! I beat all your Red Dead Redemption comments!

I first heard about the Volcanic Pistol from Call of Juarez 1, back in Christmas of '08.

But I got to say, I wish they were as powerful as CoJ made them out to be. They are bad-a** looking.

[stridingshadow]

@1Morey Actually they were quite weak, but then again the makers of CoJ don't have a big idea about weapons, so the game's weapons' realism leaves much to be desired.

[1Morey]

@stridingshadow, I know that, but I wish the volcanic pistol was as powerful as it's ingame counterpart. They look cool.

[kregerfilms]

Thumbs up for stupid video game-related comments.

[burningsponge]

at 0:06 did that cartridge burn your wrist?

[virginian800]

@burningsponge

No, I'm only burning 3.5 Grains of "Power Pistol", pushing a 150 Grain Bullet, around 850 FPS.

[xfighter3100]

Wow i always thought tht gun wud be smaller

[virginian800]

@xfighter3100

Many of the original Volcanics were smaller.

This one is the same size as the 8" 41 Caliber "Navy".

[JumentaVoadora]

thumbs up if red dead brought u here

[felipelomando]

Man, this is great! Congratulations for your idea!

[elitegamebeast2]

i have one of these in red dead redemption

[dark323ful]

I love volcanic pistols i wish they had them on the stock market. I'll do any thing to get one!

[datres77]

Man this is awesome what caliber is it

[virginian800]

@datres77

It's a very short, (custom, wildcat), 40 caliber cartridge. About 900 FPS, so more power than a 38 Special.

[streetsurf194]

That is Incredible! May i ask if the action is so smooth that you can do a one hand cock, like they do in the movies with the lever action shotguns? Halfway-flip and back (-ish)

[virginian800]

@streetsurf194

No, this gun doesn't have nearly enough mass to preform such a manuver.

[blokhed99]

Wow, remarkable! Can't believe you fabricated your own functioning Volcanic!  Did you have to adjust the original feeding system to allow it to eject shells, since the original didn't have anything to eject?

[virginian800]

@blokhed99

Hey Man, I'm glad you like this.

Yes, everything in this gun was adjusted in order to get a shooting Volcanic.

I even had to design my own Cartridge to make a "Lever Gun" this small work.

[blokhed99]

@virginian800 Somebody pointed me to your "making-of" thread on another forum for this gun. Fascinating! Those cartridges are so tiny!

[whopper1209]

Repeater handgun? O.o

[minielk454]

RDR is an awesome game but thats not where i saw this gun first. thumbs up for that gun!! beutiful

[legokid5872]

thumbs up if u discovered this gun from red dead redemption!

[MrSmilewin]

@legokid5872 I discovered this gun from Call Of Juarez :D

[thehammernator]

How much would you sell one for?

[virginian800]

@thehammernator

I do not have a manufacturing license. It is not legal for me to build guns for sale.

Building guns is just a hobby. It takes several hundred hours to build one of these guns, so selling one would require a price that would seem un-reasonable to the majority of folks.

I am happy that you, like I, find this gun cool to look at, it is fun to shoot.

[megadeth22885]

@virginian800 hey.. whered you get the plans/blueprints to construct this pistol?.. im curious, ive built things in the past, but never this one

[virginian800]

@megadeth22885

There are no plans or blueprints, I had to scale photographs of the real thing, and design the internals to function the same as the originals.

[megadeth22885]

@virginian800 it appears as if it would be similar to the henry 1860 action, where did you get the photos?

[megadeth22885]

@virginian800 id like to find photographs myself, seems one of these in .22lr would be rather fun to shoot.. or even a custom bullet mould to produce the hollow base minie ball that can be filled with black powder and topped off with a percussion cap wouldnt be hard to do

[virginian800]

@megadeth22885

To get pictures, I just went to "Google" typed in Volcanic Rifle, Volcanic Pistol, Volcanic Guns, (not all at one time)

I also bought some books.

That minie ball idea would be very difficult to pull off, because sealing the breech against the pressure is not easly done.

The Volcanic looks like the Henry because the Henry was made from the Volcanic, just enlarged to shuffle and shuck the 44 Rim Fire Cartridge.

[megadeth22885]

@virginian800 the minie ball idea is teh origional cartridge the volcanic pistol was designed to fire, which is where it gets its name, it was among the first cartridge ammunition designs out there, and was that of a caseless design... a bullet mould could easily be created for the process of recreating the origional ammunition for a volcanic pistol, however they only achieved about 50ft/lbs of energy, which might be enough to piss off a squirrel

[mangiardi1]

@virginian800 OMG HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT IS FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!

[druisteen1]

@virginian800 hhi myy américan friend

i have undestand your law

a licence protect during 50 years , after youu have not to buy this licence

[mrleoui9s]

use it with one hand next time cuss u get more viwes and stuff like that



[virginian800]

Yes, it is awkard and difficult, but doable (I have done it).

I am sure this time could be cut down with practist and specialised muscle strength.

It is not possable to quickly swing the lever, useing the mass of the Gun to hold it steady for the compleation of the action. (like the video game) Doing it like this would require an action so violent that it would be like useing a hammer to knock the lever back and forth.

[Jaahaah]

Can you operate it with just one hand?

[virginian800]

I made it.

[Wintermute01001]

Where did you get it?

[Flyytb]

seems hard to reload

[DireSloth]

It's hard to find info on this gun. Shame, it's so cool!