Stocks?

[Smokey Plainsman]

After gawking at the breathtaking shots of those with Colt revolvers with buttstocks, other thank looking cool, how are they? Do they shoot better? Fun?

Just seeing if I need to pick one up. Thanks!

 

[Zonie]

Col. Colt seemed to have a love affair with his stocked revolvers but many of the people who shot them had different ideas.

They, like shooters today found that holding a Colt pistol that close to their faces when they fired the guns was more than a bit unnerving. Bits of cap fragments, fire and smoke could cause damage when the gun was held 1 foot in front of the shooters face and that's about where it is when you shoulder the pistol with these stocks attached to them.

Also, the only way to support the gun with their free hand was to support the wrist of the shooting hand. The blast of flame and sheared lead from the cylinder/barrel gap that flies out of both sides of the gun could damage anything held in line or in front of that gap. Then of course, chain firing could really damage a hand if it was any place in front of the cylinder.

 

[Phil Coffins]

Yep I’ve shot one cylinder full in my youth and have never wanted to do it since. Ringing ears and a forehead that healed up eventually got the point to me.

 

[Sam squanch]

Had one of the shoulder stocked 1858 Remingtons with an 16 or 18 inch barrel. Never again. With a very light load it was good for plinking, a full cylinder- FORGET IT! Took the nipples out, hung it on the wall

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Yuck, thanks guys. Don’t seem I’d be getting one soon no how! Sounds ruff.

 

[LawrenceA]

There was a good reason they were never very popular. Even revolving and harmonica rifles never took off for the same reasons.
A number of the originals had strange hand rests below the barrel to keep hands away from the cylinder gap.
Just imagine if you were holding a forestock and got a chainfire.