Westworld Le Mat

Based on the ammunition and headstamps from the show 38 short colt we have something of an enigma.

Westworld le mat.

The guns of westworld. The westworld lemat is most certainly is a black powder conversion as opposed to one of the later cartridge lemats. This is a 10 shot handgun it fires nine 38 short colt cartridges and a single brass shotgun shell in an underbarrel shotgun. A new kind of shotgun.

It was developed in new orleans in 1856 by jean alexandre le mat whose manufacturing effort was backed by p. The custom lemat revolver is used by the man in black. At the time there was a gun shop in a neighboring town that would produce firearms f. Johnson hbo new old west.

It is an expensively customized two barrelled weapon. Also about 10 years ago i looked into having one made for myself. Beauregard who became a general in the confederate states army. Pieta lemat cartridge conversion.

He has some 50 years of experience. It s a lemat modified to shoot cartridges instead of the original black powder. What gun would you use to hunt a werewolf. When we saw details in the second episode we confirmed it but with a twist.

The most notable feature is the shotgun barrel which the cylinder rotates around. Fewer than 100 were made by john krider of philadelphia pennsylvania in 1859 including the first 25 prototypes. One of westworld s colorful characters the man in black played by ed harris wields a unique lemat revolver. Westworld lemat revolver i was commissioned to create the revolver you can see the man in black using in the show westworld.

Frank bird from hemet ca is the master gunsmith who perfected this type of conversion. Mike the mook someone asked us what kind of revolver ed harris man in black character was packing in hbo s new series westworld. The wonderful guns of westworld. The 5 greatest gunfights of the old west.

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