Mirmillion
Sorry, this looks like a two barrel design (over and under) which is very much like one of my designs - which handles two calibers of bullet.
Where do you see the third barrel?
Alex Zverev
Well, I don't really get it: if the gun has 18-round cylinder, why on earth will you need thre barrels? One would be more than enough to fire those 18 rounds one by one. Unless the revolver allows to fire three rounds at a time...
Bob Fately
Er, Mirmillion, the third (and rather ridiculous) barrel is plainly evident.
yourmomthinksimcool
If you look at the pic where they show the firing pins you will notice an upside down pyramid configuration.
Ryan Gribble
Alex, I suggest re-reading the article where it says "it also has an option to fire all three barrels on each pull of the trigger."
Slowburn
That is the first 25cal I have ever seen that might give a DRT on anything larger than a mouse.
Gregg Eshelman
Each upper barrel fires every other round in the outer row. The lower barrel fires all six of the rounds in the inner row.
Basically someone took a standard six shot revolver mechanism and added a second row of chambers. Instead of making a dual indexing system to align the outer chambers with an added upper barrel, the maker added two more barrels.
A similar revolver was shown on an Episode of Pawn Stars. IIRC it held at least 20 rounds and had two barrels, requiring a more complex indexing system.
Philippe Rockholt
Caricato in Italian means "loaded" quite appropriate for the intended purpose!
GiolliJoker
"Caricato" means "loaded" or if you prefer "stuffed" as the article says, but, being Italian, and seeing the low accuracy in the writing, I'd say that the idea was to stamp "Caricatore" (=magazine) but there wasn't room enough for the las two letters.
Dave B13
It's good to see a gun I don't want, no room left, which is why I have not bought a replica of one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMat_Revolver Also, I'm quite a chicken when it comes to cap & ball revolvers, like to keep my digits attached to my hand. 1. I don't have knowledge to check revolver indexing is reliable. 2. not real fond of having a gun that takes a lot more time to load than to shoot. Mostly I'm stuck with indoor ranges in urban area, so reloading while paying for range time is not a thing I want to do. TV writers being well like realy realy smart, had a western in the 50's. This thing has 9 pistol chambers & a shotgun chamber. In the TV program that used one of these guns as a prop, much was made of the hero's "7 shot" revolver.