cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21391043

Gut

[alt text: an illustration of a skeleton pointing a gun directly at the viewer. There is text in the image that says: “Trust my gut? The same gut that shit my pants last week? Yeah no thanks buddy”.]

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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    19 days ago

    Nifty examples of unusual revolvers, but in the image the cylinders would never actually line up with the barrel at all

    Consider this:

    On most revolvers, this circled feature would be the hinge pin for the cylinder crane, allowing it to swing out for reloading. But, this thing is clearly not “most” revolvers. That’s not a pin.

    That circled feature is in line with the bottom chamber of the revolver. Nothing else is lined up with any chamber. That circled feature has to be the barrel for the revolver cylinder.

    The big barrel above it is a secondary, single-shot shotgun barrel. This barrel is much larger than the chambers in the revolver cylinder; it can’t be driving the small projectile fired from those chambers.

    The only way this gun works is if it is a two-barreled gun like the Lemat. The revolver fires from the bottom barrel rather than the top, like the Rhino.