Colt 1855 Revolving Carbine

Colt 1855 Revolving Carbine
.56 cal Blackpowder 5 shot short rifle

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Science & Technology

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• Colt
• 1855
• Revolving
• Carbine

[TheEnglishRedneck45]

Interesting - a percussion musket I have up on the wall at home has a similar issue with the cleaning/loading rod - it reaches only around 3/4s of the way down the barrel. I assumed it therefore to be a later addition, but perhaps not.

[GunWebsites]

@TheEnglishRedneck45

Check the stock !!

[DjGrimmace]

WHO CARES? i would fire it, i would never sell that baby, hell to the no, imagine that peice of history, and being able to fire something like that? i would definatly take a few shots with that rifle, no i wouldnt do stress tests or fire it all day and stuff, but yeah :S

[Love2Destroy]

that thing is beautiful!

[foughtwolf]

@greencell0

Any black powder revolver can do this too. Thats why it was and still is common practice to wipe a little grease, lard or even a little animal fat on the ball and the face of the chamber to ensure that any powder that didnt get pushed back didnt possibly ignite.

[greencell0]

I heard these type of rifles were notoroius for blowing peoples hands off because the hot gases from the one in the barrel would ignite the other cylinders. However I have always been fascinated by revolving rifles and would love to own one myself. Does anyone know of the price range of one of these beauties?

[WASPfreak]

You get to use this gun in the History Channel video game Civil War: A Nation Divided along with other period weapons such as the 1861 Springfield rifle, Sharps rifle, Spencer carbine, Colt Model 1860, and Remington model 1858. It's a very good, historically accurate game. I got it for Xbox 360.

[airsoftforlife6]

Dear Santa,......

[AUG351]

@Lavrentizodiac Actually it was the same as the revolvers of the day and was loaded the same, with cap and ball. There were many repeating carbines that were used in th Civil War that could load allot faster and could load more rounds like the Spencer carbine or the Henry rifle which both used brass cartridges like guns today. Also it was dangerous because all the barrels could go off at once.

[Lavrentizodiac]

very modern for it time

[homerbear46]

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it cost me 50RMB (around 6us dollars), I can't see how they could have produced the thing for less than that....sweat-shop workers grinding away with their mental Cowboy obsessed boss screaming at them in Cantonese that his antique-rifle/fire-arm-lighter business SHALL be a great success.

Still it's an interesting lighter I suppose...lol

[homerbear46]

HAHA...I have a COPY of THIS (I think it's this, it looks just like it) from China that is actually just the biggest cigarette-lighter uve ever seen (the flame comes out of the flint-lock thing and that is ALL this stupidly big "novelty item" is for)

The crap they make and sell in Shenzhen is just hilarious sometimes, you are like "WTF are they thinking?"

I don't think it's worth as much as the real one though...