Friday Fucks or Sucks
Welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks! It's a weekly game where we all discuss if a gun fucks, or if it sucks. This week it's the Landstad Automatic Revolver, a revolver with a magazine. The magazine was also the left grip and fed the bottom chamber of a flat cylinder that rotated 180 degrees.
The revolver was chambered in 7.65 Nagant, a now defunct round and these images come from the first model built by Halvard Landstadin 1900. It went into military trials at 1901 with terrible outcomes it failed basically every test it was presented with outside of the ones testing the ballistics of the cartridge they already knew to be good.
The cylinder was flat, and is shown here open and rotating. The bottom chamber would be fed a new round by the cycling action.
The rear of the revolver had a slide that would pull back and cycle the weapon, ejecting the current round and pushing the next round from the magazine into the cylinder. It was wildly complicated and tended to lock up when shot with any speed..
The original patent drawing from 1899. With a six shot magazine the entire system could possibly be "max loaded" with eight rounds but, assuming the prototype functions as the original drawings describe, doing so would have been wildly dangerous with a floating firing pin and no safety. Using it as intended, however, the safest max loading would be seven rounds - six rounds and an additional seventh round in the double action/bottom chamber.
Let me know whether you think this fucks or sucks! Is it a beautiful space revolver? Is it an abandoned failed prototype with no real use case? Is it cool? Is it weird? Let me know!
