Curator's Corner: Revolving Rifles (Part 1)

www.nramuseum.org Presenting early models of repeating percussion rifles. John Popp joins National Firearms Museum Director Jim Supica for the first of two segments on the history of the repeating long gun. Theres the Bennett & Haviland rifle, featuring a chain of 12 external chambers that the shooter can rotate using a crank wheel. Next is the reasonably successful Colt revolving rifle, based on the pioneering pistol design. Also featured are two revolving turret rifles, the P.W. Porter and a unique Graham prototype.
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[@Scmidster]

I love it that people have an appreciation for old firearms

[@davidsquall351]

These are great rifles

[@ZippoVarga]

Wonderful channel. I'm thoroughly enjoying the videos. Keep up the great job!!

[@1957Shep]

Beautiful rifles

[@TheWorldEater66]

Glad you talked about the Bennett & Haviland- Saw that one on the website

[@AugustusLarch]

This takes forever to load. Then at 3:43 it locks up. Wonderful.

[@SpiriteofKurbin20034]

The Taurus Circuit Judge is a nice gun.

[@SlayerEndX13]

Some of those revolving rifles were really interesting.
Is there a place you can go to look up reference sketches of them?

[@havareriksen3395]

Very interresting guns. Thank you for taking the time to tell us about them. But I noticed that the Colt design was introduced as the first effective repeater design based on a revolving cluster of chambers. To my knowledge, the design patented by Peder Rasmussen in 1832 was quite similar to the design Samuel Colt patended in 1935. Rasmussen developed this system for long guns, and tried to sell them to the military, but he had no success with sales.

[@benm5913]

While I know nothing of Rasmussen, revolving long arms have been around since the matchlock era. I wouldn't doubt at all that there were advanced designs that fell by the way side due to various reasons.

[@havareriksen3395]

While there are examples of firearms with revolving cylinders at least back to the 16th century, generally they all had to have their cylinders manually rotated in between each trigger pull. The Rasmussen design was almost identical to Colt's design in that each cocking of the hammer rotated the cylinder one notch. Some historians believe Colt copied Rasmussen's design, but there is no evidence that Colt knew about Rasmussen's design. Any connection between the two seems to have been lost in the mist of time.

[@singedcarry]

@PLxFTW Taurus Circuit judge. New revolving rifle .

[@LuckyRob007]

For the Colt Revolving Rifle, do you know some of the ballistic information? Muzzle velocity or effective range?

[@AtholAnderson]

@PLxFTW I know Uberti Firearms does

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@RevolverLover101 I see what you're saying, but I think the lighting is just weird

[@konnii1]

hello im a gun fan at the age of 16 from iceland but i moved to norway what kind of gun would you say is good for me?
-konráð ing birgison

[@PLxFTW]

A company should remake the revolver style rifle.

[@jedbeddo1]

taurus made there judge revolver handgun hybrid into a rifle. i think its called the circuit judge

[@88djs]

lighting needs to be better

[@OMGitsjulian1]

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tarus circuit judge

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240p... What years is this?

[@Janeichen]

2009

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Borderlands 2??

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1 person doesn't own any guns. :(

[@seriousamm]

i really wish they just made revolving sniper rifles. it wud be pretty dam awesome