Westworld Le Mat

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Westworld le mat.

One of westworld s colorful characters the man in black played by ed harris wields a unique lemat revolver. Frank bird from hemet ca is the master gunsmith who perfected this type of conversion. Also about 10 years ago i looked into having one made for myself. The 5 greatest gunfights of the old west.

The most notable feature is the shotgun barrel which the cylinder rotates around. Mike the mook someone asked us what kind of revolver ed harris man in black character was packing in hbo s new series westworld. Johnson hbo new old west. There was a centerfire version chambered in 12 mm 24 ga.

He has some 50 years of experience. It s a lemat modified to shoot cartridges instead of the original black powder. Westworld lemat revolver i was commissioned to create the revolver you can see the man in black using in the show westworld. 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. Based on the ammunition and headstamps from the show 38 short colt we have something of an enigma. Fewer than 100 were made by john krider of philadelphia pennsylvania in 1859 including the first 25 prototypes. Who s buying the pieces.

What gun would you use to hunt a werewolf. It is an expensively customized two barrelled weapon. The westworld lemat is most certainly is a black powder conversion as opposed to one of the later cartridge lemats. Beauregard who became a general in the confederate states army.

The custom lemat revolver is used by the man in black. Pieta lemat cartridge conversion. 2 of 12 photo by john p. The guns of westworld.

In the first episode we caught a glimpse of the grip and trigger and thought it was a lemat.