Found some nice pix of the Mateba auto revolver. I did not know that there was a .454 Casull version. Alucard would approve, I'm sure.
UPDATE: For the benefit of readers who aren't particularly familiar with guns, or with this gun anyway. There must be at least one of you.
Most revolvers are not "automatic" in any way. With a single-action revolver, the cylinder is rotated to a fresh chamber when the hammer is pulled back, then the trigger is pulled to fire it. With a double-action revolver, pulling the trigger first rotates the cylinder and then fires it. The Mateba auto-revolver uses the recoil of firing to rotate the cylinder to a fresh chamber. The first shot must be double-action, but the recoil action also cocks the hammer so following shots are single-action.
Another thing that sets it apart from traditional revolvers is that it fires from the bottom chamber of the cylinder rather than the top (check the pictures to see what I'm talking about). This must give it a very different kind of recoil from traditional revolvers.
And needless to say, I would really like to get my hands on one.
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Re: Mateba Pr0n
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gunporn
on Mon 21 May 2007 10:39 PM CDT | Permanent Link
The recoil is not only reduced because of the barrel position (which is very neat looking in addition to an interesting design), but the automatic cycling action also sucks up a lot of the recoil from the gun.
I haven't shot the .454 version, just the .357, but it was a lot different feeling than the titanium .357 I was shooting earlier that day. Re: Mateba Pr0n
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Canthros
on Sun 10 Jun 2007 11:49 PM CDT | Permanent Link
I bought one back in May; currently looking for parts to insure against future use and abuse. Ran 100 rounds through it without a misfire of any kind. Recoil in .357 was no worse than with a Steyr M40 I shot later that morning, so it's a fairly controllable gun, if large. Can't compare it to a traditional revolver, though: I'm a gun newb, and have never shot one.
There's a guy that has a couple for sale on gunbroker.com, if you're willing to spend the dollars--they aren't cheap, or even reasonably priced. Mateba also stopped making them a couple years ago, then promptly went under entirely. On the upside, it sounds like someone at least snapped up Emilio Ghisoni, who designed the gun. |
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