The LeMat is a cap and ball revolver for sale with a single-shot, smooth bore barrel of buckshot beneath the main barrel for allowing players to changing between shotgun and revolver ammunition. The LeMat revolver is a very powerful gun. It possesses the highest damage of many revolvers with Revolver Ammo. The damage and accuracy being both marginally better than the Schofield Revolver and Volcanic Pistol and decisively superior to that of both the Double-action guns and Cattleman revolvers. With Express Ammo the damage becomes even more serious. Well, as a downside its rate of fire and reload speed can compared to some other revolvers. The ammo capacity is 9 rounds as against the usual six.
The LeMat revolver is one man’s innovative effort to give European and American soldiers the ultimate in single-handed, close-quarters firepower. Patented in 1856 by Jean Alexandre LeMat, a Frenchman living in New Orleans at that time, the revolver was a cap and ball muzzle-loader featuring a central smoothbore shotgun barrel, which also served as the axis for an enlarged revolver cylinder, typically .42-cal, that fired down a longer 6.75-inch parallel barrel. The shooter could switch between the shotgun and the revolver by adjusting a pivoting striker on the hammer. However, if you’re unable to acquire or afford the original, reproductions are available from us.
