The Pepperbox....the unsung hero of the West.

[Stophel]

Does anyone make a repro pepperbox?

 

[St. George]

Not any longer - 'Classic Arms' made one - but that was in kit form.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

[Forty Rod]

Hoppe's (Yeah, same guys that keep your iron clean.) had one in ready to shoot or kit form.  Single action dead-on copy of an Allen SA  "shotgun hammer" 6 shot pepperbox.  It took some small nipples that were hard to find at the time, and tiny caps.

I wish I'd have kept mine...and the SxS .36 double hammer-single trigger pistol, too.   Same nipples and caps for it.

[Jake MacReedy]

Stophel,

Take a look here: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/SearchResults.asp
Some of the originals are not all that expensive, all things considered.

Jake

[Stophel]

Not any longer - 'Classic Arms' made one - but that was in kit form.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

Hey, I found that one, Dixie still carries it.  It's the one that you have to manually turn the barrels, right?  Kinda awful, but I'm sure some enterprising individual could put ratchet teeth on the barrel(s) and come up with a new mechanism with a hand to turn them...I probably won't tackle that...

[Montana Slim]

A buddy of mine back in high-school (I'd rather not say how long ago), bought the kit...Think it was the Classic Arms...could be the one in Dixie. Anyway, it went together ok, operated and finished fine. It was a bit tricky to shoot. You had to manually rotate the barrel I recall. The gun was difficult to manipulate and aim, not very accurate (especially compared to typical period cartridge pocket revolvers), and slow to load. It looked cool though.

I immediately learned why the percussion revolver became a runaway success   

My buddy also had the duckfoot (3 barrel) and the snake eyes (2-shot deringer).
Thumbs-up on the snake eyes.

Regards,
Slim

[GunClick Rick]

Yea snake eyes,cool with birdshot