Revolver of the Future?

[chris_gerrib]

The Space Rescue Service in my books carry revolvers, largely because I think that semi-auto pistols would tend to jam due to a variation on limp wristing. Basically, the gun's recoil would move the shooter and not the slide, meaning the gun wouldn't cycle. Gas-operated weapons wouldn't be affected, but I'm not aware of any gas-operated pistols, at least not any small enough to carry on your hip. (I'm aware of blowback guns, but those are either small caliber pistols or shoulder arms.)

So, revolvers. Chiappa Firearms, a small and fairly new Italian company with a limited product range, is selling an interesting and futuristic revolver, the Rhino. It's a revolver that fires out of the bottom chamber - as far as I know, the only such weapon. As you can see from the pictures in this article, the arrangement results in a complicated internal mechanism, but apparently it works.

Now, in part I'm interested in the revolver because, in the unlikely event that anybody makes a movie of my books and the more unlikely event I have any input into the movie, this is the revolver I'd tell them to use. I'm also interested because Chiappa has decided to re-think the revolver from the ground up. Note please the flat sides of the cylinder, intended for ease of concealment. Also, the lower-barrel arrangement, common in shotguns, (we call them "un-singles") is designed to minimize felt recoil and reduce muzzle-rise. In short, it's a neat gun.

Comments

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

That was not my experience with pistols.

That is - I'd learned to shoot rifles 'The Marine Corps' way. Then out to the pistol range so I could carry one on guard duty.

Spent the day or two missing targets. I guess something clicked, I scored Expert at the end of the week, and whenever I went back to the range for score.

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

You were probably over-focused on sight picture. Point shooting *IS* a skill. I picked it up a bit because I also shoot shotgun. When the bird is flying away, you can't get TOO wrapped up in the sights.

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

But but but ... if I don't have a proper sight picture Drill Instructor Sergeant Flater will rise up out of the ground and say unkind things to me.

Brainwashing .. what brainwashing?

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Ah. Interesting.

I have a friend who was a Ranger sniper who was partly selected because he'd never fired guns before. They liked having somebody without any bad habits to break.