You could have picked my jaw off the floor when he then demonstrated the quick barrel-swap feature. The double-action model would have been the ultimate sidearm of the Old West!
The way it ejects the empties reminds me of the first Enfield revolver that was used by the British army and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the late 1800's.
The Merwin's were true mechanical marvels, but yeah, they must have been fantastically expensive for the day. Well outside the price range of your average cowpoke. They are so ingenious I'll bet a modernized version could succeed.
It seems like he was trying to copy the Model 3, but S&W owned the patent on Top Break revolvers at the time, so he needed to come up with a different extraction system. It's why they can only be loaded through the loading gate, and not when the cylinder is pulled forward, unlike the Model 3 which can be reloaded while still broken open. The MH is a cool system, but the top break S&Ws were probably better overall in that regard. The modular barrel of the MH was ahead of its time though, and they were definitely well made.
In the old west if you didn't have a handgun or rifle you were a victim waiting to happen specially if you needed to go from one town to another children learned to use guns very early in ther lives.
Two complaints. Why didn't they zoom in to show us close ups of the punch engraving. I mean enough of the video talks about them, so why not show it to us? Second, this video needs to be retitled to 'the more expensive pistols of the old West.' Re: They totally ignore Iver Johnson, they ignore the Bulldog clones (at least half a million imported into and sold in the US (mostly on the West coast which S&W and Colt mostly ignored until the late 1880s as a market place), and the hundreds of thousands of small 'spur trigger' small caliber pistols found in many pockets and women;s purses of the era.
You forgot many. As for the cartridge fireing guns the big thing was a all weather gun as cap and ball could not be kept loaded more than 24 hours. I was given a 1858 Rem as.a boy and owned many colts from 1847 to 1860 and know first hand. The conversion colts we're used all so. Please do much more research next time.
Somebody make the Merwin Hulbet again I need one of these things!
I was smiling like a small child when he was operating the Merwin Huberts incredible ejection system.
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They're still working on it, apparently. Hopefully it'll be available soon.
Yep, the company is still alive and selling guns guys!
You could have picked my jaw off the floor when he then demonstrated the quick barrel-swap feature. The double-action model would have been the ultimate sidearm of the Old West!
The way it ejects the empties reminds me of the first Enfield revolver that was used by the British army and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the late 1800's.
The Merwin's were true mechanical marvels, but yeah, they must have been fantastically expensive for the day. Well outside the price range of your average cowpoke.
They are so ingenious I'll bet a modernized version could succeed.
The shape of the Merwin's frame, and barrel rib, resemble a modern S&W. Almost like a Model 29.
It seems like he was trying to copy the Model 3, but S&W owned the patent on Top Break revolvers at the time, so he needed to come up with a different extraction system. It's why they can only be loaded through the loading gate, and not when the cylinder is pulled forward, unlike the Model 3 which can be reloaded while still broken open. The MH is a cool system, but the top break S&Ws were probably better overall in that regard. The modular barrel of the MH was ahead of its time though, and they were definitely well made.
NICE!!!
Please pull back further when showing scroll work. I suggest next state.
In the old west if you didn't have a handgun or rifle you were a victim waiting to happen specially if you needed to go from one town to another children learned to use guns very early in ther lives.
Two complaints. Why didn't they zoom in to show us close ups of the punch engraving. I mean enough of the video talks about them, so why not show it to us? Second, this video needs to be retitled to 'the more expensive pistols of the old West.' Re: They totally ignore Iver Johnson, they ignore the Bulldog clones (at least half a million imported into and sold in the US (mostly on the West coast which S&W and Colt mostly ignored until the late 1880s as a market place), and the hundreds of thousands of small 'spur trigger' small caliber pistols found in many pockets and women;s purses of the era.
You forgot many. As for the cartridge fireing guns the big thing was a all weather gun as cap and ball could not be kept loaded more than 24 hours. I was given a 1858 Rem as.a boy and owned many colts from 1847 to 1860 and know
first hand. The conversion colts we're used all so. Please do much
more research next time.
And while you're at it make some Kerr revolvers
Play the game six guns