Bill google Gun Kid, hes a dirtbag and one of the biggest gun forum trolls to ever visit this site and many others. He compleatly ruined a couple gun sites a few years back. Gun kid aka whoa, tap and hes got a few other user names. Hes not hard to spot as his writing style always stays the same. He is not liked or wanted here. Google him up and enjoy the read.
Jeff I don't know the individual or what he has done either felonious, or by being disruptive in firearms sites across the net. But I do know he appears to be a pro gunner. And we need all the pro gunners we can get. There are people who may get on our nerves or even anger us at gun sites, but we need to remember the big picture that at the core of things, we are all brothers and sisters of the 2nd amendment. Our animosity needs to be reserved for anti-gunners and all pro gunners need to stick together. Sometimes pro gunners are their own worse enemy and with the petty bickering and fighting that goes on at some online gun sites, I'm sure the anti-gunners are laughing at our lack of solidarity in our ranks. Perhaps the individual in question simply needs and seeks acceptance, or even just to have a goal to live for. Often times people don't realize how depressed a person can get and perhaps his ideas and dreams are all that keep him going. The least we can do for someone in that position is to be kind, polite and perhaps even supportive to them until they do something so overt that it is time to no longer be kind, polite and supportive.
I didn't see anything wrong with his post in this thread he started and only because of his past was he vilified. Perhaps if he was given a chance without being demonized and insulted before he did anything wrong or disruptive, maybe he wouldn't do anything wrong or disruptive. But I'm sure now we won't know because he likely won't come back to this thread now. Anyway, enough of my thoughts on that.
As to the original poster's design ideas. Nice ideas but has already been done. The original poster (OP) when he was talking about 10 shots coming from a five shot black powder revolver,
HAD to be thinking of superimposed ball loads. I.E. two balls separated by a felt wad (so the lead balls won't stick to each other due to compression in the barrel) over a charge of powder. That's the only way he could get ten hits out of a five shot cylinder. That's already been done and I sometimes do those loads myself with my black powder revolvers. So nothing new there.
As to it being done using smokeless powder, that has already been done too. There is a company that converts black powder revolvers to use smokeless powder for British shooters who are strangled by anti-gun laws so they need to use cap and ball revolvers for target shooting. These conversions utilize a non corrosive shotgun primer and a smokeless powder, but they are still cap and ball operated revolvers that use loose powder and loose caps to operate. So that has already been done by Westlake Engineering. Read about their Remington Army based Cal. 38 Nitro Conversion that uses shotgun primers for percussion caps and smokeless powder but is still a cap and ball revolver, at this link.....
westlakeengineering.com
And if someone had a cap and ball double action Adams or Tranter revolver that they sent to Westlake Engineering for conversion, then that would amount to exactly the same double action capability the OP had described. I know there are some modern steel versions of double action cap and ball revolvers being produced today, and with the Westlake Engineering conversion to smokeless, they would be exactly what the OP had described. Although usually Westlake Engineering reduces the caliber (and replaces the barrel and cylinder) and reduces the smokeless load as well to a lesser volume so the pressures are safe.
So his ideas had merit, but it is already being done. All someone would have to do is load a double ball load into one of those Westlake Engineering cylinders and barrels installed on a double action cap and ball revolver and they too would throw ten shots from a five cylinder revolver and be exactly what the OP described.
Would there be much of a market for it here in the U.S.? A very small niche market at best. But more of a market for it in England and perhaps Australia, but again, it is already being done by Westlake Engineering. Still not bad thinking and ideas on the part of the OP.
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