Mateba Unica Hunter

[Dagg215]

Gimme.

[yomejustacandy]

I'm jealous.

[MrSamster911]

vash the stampede! lol

[halopartyboy]

The mech looks like a bitch to clean

[melissa12300]

This gun is used by Thomas Jane (punisher) in a movie called, Give 'em hell Malone.

[0xXdarkstarzXx0]

Do u really have to pump every shot

[Kiryu394]

@0xXdarkstarzXx0 not that i know, since i read it was a Mateba Auto Revolver, its like a slide action

[moglinpunter]

semi auto revolver?

[Halo2100]

@moglinpunter Yes, it's concept isn't new. The first revolvers to incorperate that type of action have been around for about 100 years now.

[chrismc410]

@moglinpunter Yup. The first one I know of was the Webley Fosbery. This is the modern equivalent.

[NecromancerWolf]

Remember this shit at Christmas!

[riseagainstrocks5]

some one has got to tell me where the crap i can buy this sexy gun. it is freakin amazing

[minkyboodle2014]

"It's a fuckin anti-aircraft gun, vincent"

[IggyHazard]

I always thought they should make 7- or 8-shot versions of this. If you use .38 Special in it, I'm guessing you'd have to cock it single-action, correct?

[vampire847]

this sir.. is one sexy revolver... thanks... i have morning wood again now><

[xristo702]

Well...I said all that 10 months ago and the only thing I will retract is my opinion of the auto industry.

The big downside to the 6 Unica is that some assholes bought them all up for around 1k and nobody lets them go for under 2k these days.

Lot of moving parts in the gun can break as well....so if you have money to burn, you can just get it as a safe queen and finger bang it once in a while before locking it up again. =/

Reminds me of the Dan Wesson PPC: also discontinued. >:(

[fpsgene]

Easily the coolest revolver I've ever seen.

[passthataxe]

i want one these lol and also a webley-fosbery..

[fywacia]

An automatic cycling revolver, I'm totally impressed.

[bestbet25]

awesome but ugly

[ReticentIndignation]

@bestbet25 you must be a fan of plain, boring, common women/men. I be you drive a toyota corolla too...

Like xristo702 stated "why are boring guns so plentiful, when beauts like this go extinct"?

[r8wing]

Cons? Heavy, complicated, probably expensive, limited ammo supply.

Pros? Super-hyper-mega cool gun. I would certainly buy one:))

[mantorok09]

@SpiritofAdventure22 Yeah, only problem is that if you use anything less powerful than .357 Magnum, there isn't the proper amount of blow-back force and the whole auto-rotate hammer-cock function may not work every time. You can still fire the gun alright, you just may have to shoot it double-action like standard revolvers if you use a less powerful round. Of course, it has to be a round that fits. .38 Special works, it fits just fine, it just lacks the power.

[msk7a]

Wow! Gotta love the Mateba! Any chance on making a video on cleaning the thing? I have a couple Matebas as well, but the instructions for removing the slide from the frame aren't worded very well. Also do you know where to get parts (outside of Italy)? - the grips on my 4" Mateba shattered and my gunsmith is having a doozy trying to come up with a solution (said something about Delrin polymers on a duplicator rig - whatever that means).

[maoristereo]

I dont much aprove of guns but that is definitively a magnificent piece of engineering.

[ishouldplayzelda]

hey santa... guess what i want for christmas?

[itzyaboyrick]

that gun is simply amazing.....how much did u get it for?

[sevendeadly69]

is this gun available in the u.s. ?

[LotusDragon09]

This is a very sexy gun. If my state (Pennsylvania) allowed open gun carry, id have this with me just to show its sexiness off. I think it does actually, but im not sure. If this gun ever becomes affordable to me, I hope I can find someone to buy it off of.

[sceptic300]

Cool gun. Not in production anymore.

[Velet66]

Well color me envious!

[JDPatriot]

Beautiful piece of machinery. Hopefully I will own one someday, thanks for posting this video.

[Cire21Century]

a very unique and good looking gun.

[morderca95]

This crap is based on webley forsbery! It looks like space like thing :/

[Cssfiend]

@morderca95 this is no more a copy of the webley auto revolver than every gun is a copy of ancient chinese bamboo canons

[Araqnydd]

crazy space gun must have cost an arm and a leg.

[GnR357sig]

Hi there,

Well, the video is quite self-explaining for gun function and its design.

This is a blowback action gun, where the recoil will push the top of the gun back, thus cocking the hammer. When the top goes back in place, another mechanism makes the cylinder turn and present the new round in front of the firing pin. Indeed, there is a recoil spring to make all of this happens.

As the gun is heavy, it requires hot rounds to function properly.

Cheers,

[r8wing]

@GnR357sig

This is rather recoil operation and not blowback, as the whole barrel moves back. In blowback operation the barrel is stationary and the bolt moves back under the pressure of the gases (this one even doesn't have a bolt, being a revolver).

Cheers,

[Santiago125a]

@GnR357sig how did you get your hands on one of those beuties?

[TheBumpFireChannel]

@GnR357sig hypotheticly speaking, this could be made full auto. you'd have to hold it VERY tightly but imagine that.

[cal10mag]

Please talk to us . . . tell us about the gun and its function as you show it. Thanks for the video, different gun for sure.

[jakep42zer0]

what a cool firearm....such an interesting design..this is the reason i love firearms so much...there all so unique and cool

[munched55]

instead of leaving greasy fingerprints all over it, mear some cotton gloves..

[ShyGuy236]

THAT GUN IS SO SEXY AAAAS FUCK!

[dcsabe]

that gun is sexy as fuck

[RepPhilly215]

That gun sexy as fuck

[thegoof171]

Give 'em Hell, Malone

[bachterman]

fantastic piece of engineering!

[supersonicbros23]

a pump revolver... whats the world coming to?

[lambda55]

@supersonicbros23 It's not a pump revolver, that's like a slide on a magazine fed pistol moving to eject and chamber another round. It's an autorevolver. When you fire it, the recoil forces the upper portion backward, moving the cylinder, lining up another round to fire.

[inkbot2000]

it doesn't eject bullets, you have to do that manually

[lambda55]

You misunderstand. I was approximating the autorevolver to a automatic pistol. When you fire an automatic pistol, the gases propel the spent cartridge out of the weapon and forces a new round into the breach. An autorevolver works the essentially the same way. Read a little closer.

[Grayfox988]

Reminds me of the good ol' Webley-Fosbery autorevolver.

[preesty]

Can someone explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of this gun? Im new at this gun thing..

[EvilBloodGnome]

It's a big magnum that won't jam like automags will.

Revolvers have proven time and time again to be one of the more reliable forms of handguns. That and they can chamber large rounds without increasing the chance of jamming.

This gun combines the ability to chamber a large round with a quick firing rate of automatics. Plus its just a neat gun, no one really needs a .44 or a .454 Casull, but we like em anyways.

[xristo702]

Why are boring guns so plentiful, when beauts like this go extinct?

I understand practicality/affordability but christ....imagine if the auto-industry turned out the same way?

Anyway, awesome gun dude, thanks for the vid!

[duckduden]

@xristo702 Never understood why this gun went out of the market, it is pretty perfect. All the reliability of a revolver, with the steadiness of a pistol.

[PooPoo2U]

@xristo702: the auto industry already IS the same way.

[xristo702]

@PooPoo2U

Well, said....and very true for the most part. >:/

[bobbytimberlake]

@xristo702 The auto industry, and most others, do work this way.

Look at the Corolla, Civic, and other wrong wheel drive appliances powered by ratty 4-bangers. Then look at the Z06, or even the 370Z.

[fpsgene]

@xristo702

Simple; Boring guns are here to stay because of cost and effectiveness.

[vampire847]

@xristo702 liberals...that's why...

[riseagainstrocks5]

@xristo702  that is sooooo freakin true

[m91nagant]

@xristo702 the auto industry did turn out that way

[mutantmachine]

orgasmic...

so let me get this straight..when this revolver is being fired, the recoil and the blowback system will "cock" the revolver...same as a double-action revolver??

[SGTvolcan]

Yep, semi-auto.

[bobbytimberlake]

No, not "same as a double-action revolver". Double action means a pull of the trigger performs two actions: cocking the hammer, and dropping it to fire.

A double action revolver does not cock again for the next shot. The Autorevolver does. That means the first shot is double action, and all the rest are single action (the trigger just drops the hammer to fire).

[andyx181x]

I'm curious then, after the first shot is done for the rest of the five remaining rounds the hammer stay backs correct? Does that mean the trigger itself is already pulled back to the hairline distance? Sorry if my terminology is wrong, i just notice that when you manually cock the hammer back on a handgun the trigger itself is pulled back to requiring hardly any force to drop the hammer.

[bobbytimberlake]

When you fire an uncocked DA revolver or DA pistol, it is a very long pull because you're performing 2 actions: cocking, & then firing.

On a SA revolver or SA pistol (like the 1911), you cock it yourself leaving a very light trigger pull with only one action: dropping the hammer.

The Autorevolver can be fired DA with a heavy trigger pull for the 1st shot, or you can cock it yourself and have a light SA pull. The 1st shot's recoil cocks it, and the rest are light SA pulls. Make sense now?

[andyx181x]

Ton of sense, man you can unload that gun fast and better accuracy. Why the hell they don't make these kind of guns anymore???

[bobbytimberlake]

It's not terribly practical. It's too big & heavy to carry, and it's complex and expensive to make.

An awesome toy to collect and have fun with at the range, but not really a big market for it.

[andyx181x]

The extra parts needed for it to do what it does is what makes it big and heavy?

[bobbytimberlake]

Yes, just look at it. It weighs about 3 pounds.

A Glock 26/27 loaded with 11 rounds weighs less than half that. Even the full size G17 loaded with 18 rounds weighs just a little over half the Mateba.

[BornToBreakdance]

@mutantmachine when they say double action, it means that it's either you pull the trigger, which cocks back the handle and releases it at the distress point, or when you pull the hammer back, then firing, thus relieving the trigger pull. single action is when you have to pull down the hammer after each shot.

[ButtPoopWiggle]

Was in a gun shop the other day, held a .357 with a four inch barrel and he said not to dry fire it.

Eh?

[lilmarzet]

it would look nice if that ugly thing wasnt pokin out the barrel

[bobbytimberlake]

That "ugly thing" is a compensator, which uses the combustion gases to reduce the muzzle flip and recoil.

[PhatsMahoney]

Why is this 4 starred? What isn't there to like about this video? Unlike any other Mateba video on youtube, we actually get to see how it works in this one, considering hardly any of us will get our hands on one

[leersay]

=O sweet

[ultrababeman]

is he RACKING a REVOLVER?!?!?

[ryuuzaki010203]

What is the caliber and barrel length (minus compensator) of the specific Mateba in the video?

[joiless]

According to another video by the poster, this 6 Unica is a .357 Magnum, and that's the the 8" barrel (minus the compensator/thread protector).

[SaintMephistoph]

most likely .44 or .454 & the barrel is at least 7 inches long.

[DelJunya]

there's one listed for like 1,250+30 Shipping at gunsamerica... it's OK looking.

[Ujkey]

thats not a revolver, its a cannon lol

[haloasc]

Shame you can't buy brand new anymore :(

[lonewanderer77]

wow

[southerner985]

where can i find this handgun! realy

[smoof60]

its kinda rare, mateba closed in 2005 i believe, i know thats when this gun was discontinued, and considering its rarity, you can probably guess the price is stiff, i've heard of em sellin around $2000, dont take my word on that lol, but it is an amazing gun

[iherduliekmudkips69]

do you have to cock it back every time to shoot?

[Slysdexsic]

nope, just the first time. wouldnt be very good if ya had to, it uses the recoil from the first shot to do it.

GOD I WANT THIS GUN!

[Ujkey]

no, it works like an automatic pistol.

[battletoads22]

This may be a stupid question, but I don't know anything about guns. What's that grey thing at the end of the barrel?

[iherduliekmudkips69]

that my friend is a muzzle break. Never seen one on a revolver though.

[CamDemon]

The difference: This is the more bitchin' AUTOREVOLVER. QEB.

[bobbytimberlake]

Just to add: what it does it direct the combustion gases rearward (and often upward) to reduce the recoil (and muzzle rise).

Normally the gases would just go straight forward along with the bullet, meaning more recoil.

[LotusDragon09]

Not only that, but I think the barrel is lined up with the bottom cylinder chamber. This further reduces recoil, since its closer to your hand. Correct me if im wrong about this, though.

[bobbytimberlake]

Yes, the bottom chamber is the one that fires, and this decreases the leverage it has for muzzle flip.

The original comment was asking about the muzzle brake, so that's what I was explaining.

[LotusDragon09]

Ah, leverage. I was trying to think of the term for what was causing that.

But yeah, if the gases have only one direction to go to, that means more force in the opposite direction the bullet is going; towards you.

[Rasengan450]

what a beautiful gun

[Th3RedX]

beautiful gun and design, one of the only revolvers I like. the one with the larger, shorter, blunter barrel is nicer looking. same Gun Togusa use's in Ghost IN The Shell Series.

[battletoads22]

And the gun used by Vash the Stampede and his brother in Trigun.

[ArmyofOneandaHalf]

Actually those are custom Made, and the series was created before the mateba was designed

[xXEvilScientistXx]

it has got a blowback system

is it full auto too?

[JaxRhapsody]

I have been looking for one of these. I didnt know they made a gun like this one The one I was looking for was smaller than this, This is the one I want is it called Unica? Imporving accuracy by design.

[rhowind]

ITS SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!!!

[yomomasface]

I Totally Want One Of These!!!!

[seanr245]

The gun is kind of ugly but it's so cool, I think I need one.

[johell999]

Why no one have thought of that before. Awesome idea to bring light single revolver action in modern gun world.

[xXxCatsnakexXx]

its a reworking of the British Webley-Fosbery revolver,; which only ceased being produced due to the outbreak of WWI. Check it out, that and the Mateba are both cool guns and very accurate.

[shadowking13]

ordering one tuesday :)

[Axbent]

whats recoil like, looks like its increased by the recoil operated mechanism?

[xXxCatsnakexXx]

felt recoil is reduced compared to a standard revolver in the same caliber.

[StantheGunman]

Fantasic handgun!

[LawietStandard]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh makes MUCH more sense now. People were trying to describe the action to me and all I could see in my head was an auto handgun like a m1911 or something.

[JLRedLion]

the Unica 6 is the most desierable handgun in the world, I would pay the 1500 for one right now if I could find one

[cymond]

there's one on GunBroker for $1900 right now

[JLRedLion]

I checked it out but I only saw the carbine variant, 2000 for a handgun is so freeken steep but it really is a one-of-a-kind design.

[cymond]

Well there's only 1 Mateba on GunBroker. It's titled 'Mateba 4 Inch 357 NIB' and the buy-it-now price is still $1900. It's auction number 111924425.

I agree that it's a lot to pay for a handgun but I guarantee you that I'd buy it right now if I could afford it.

Mateba is supposedly out of business. It certainly seems that way because these guns are becoming even more rare. There used to be at least 6 Mateba revolvers on GB constantly. Now it's rare to see even one.

[thephilchannel]

want an automatic revolver? buy a semi-automatic pistol.

[Sigma6987]

Want an apple? Buy an orange.

[LotusDragon09]

Point well made :).

[SCL1]

I cringed when you dry-fired. YOU DIDN'T USE SNAP CAPS!

[bobbytimberlake]

So what? It's a modern gun. Aside from super custom .22 rimfire "race guns", there really isn't a need for snap caps in modern guns.

It's a holdover from 200 year old revolvers and 60 year old Soviet pistols with junk metal firing pins.

[thegrandemperor]

Too bad they couldn't make one in S&W mag500.

[John234pwns]

S&W 500 is a retarded caliber anyway

[thegrandemperor]

ok.....

[HLTVpro]

unfortunately mateba bankrupted, it's hard to find auto revolvers like this now.

[IggyHazard]

So the frame reciprocates like on a Webley-Fosbury!

[punkneto3000]

wow!

i would like to have one of those in .357 Magnum.

does it exist?

[IggyHazard]

Yes. Matebas are made in .357 Mag and .44 Mag. There are also carbine versions.

[Fury9er]

Fascinating video, thanks for putting this up!

[sil992]

Yes! Another happy owner of this extraordinary revolver! Compliments.

[DeicideNBF]

Very interesting vid, thanks!