Small Arms of WWI Primer 06B*: German Reichsrevolver M1883

For the hand to hand combat without ammo question, would you really choose the reichsrevolver club over the Colt Cutlass? Now I have a rather different mental image of hand to hand combat with ammo stuck in my head. Using a 75mm shell to bludgeon one's opponent, literally fighting with ammo...

If the '79 was originally intended for cavelry use maybe it was sized to use with gloves.

would argue putting a stick in a hole kind of sounds like funthingtodo but certainly NOT during combat reloads on a horse! (soory. too good of an oportunity to not comment that)

still the very last thing a SAO revolver would ever need: a safety! hammer over the empty THE safest handgun out there no matter how many safetydecockerwhatever levers a fancy autoloader have or not.

That 10+mm cartridge had better be an effective man-stopper on the first shot, because I am not going to want to go through all the unergonomic efforts of re-cocking that thing.

Where is the "Make room for Mae" t-shirt?

BTW, you aren't by any chance referring to Maurice's BBQ sauce as an epicurean standard are you?

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to my (repro) Walker. With it the lack of a built-in ejector is not an issue, the speed of reloading (with paper cartridges) is roughly the same, the grip is vastly superior, the cudgel factor is roughly equivalent, and IT DOESN'T HAVE A KNUCKLE BUSTING SAFETY LEVER. YMMV

Put a bbq source poll on the YouTube community tab. Not even joking, the Youtube algorithm has a very loose interpretation of who your "community" is and will send that poll out to places you wouldn't otherwise reach. Drop in a couple of keywords like historical firearms or education to point the algorithm in the right direction. something like "What's your favourite BBQ sauce to go with your favourite educational historic firearms content?". (credit to The Spiffing Brit, the Youtuber who shared this algorithm hack with the world).

I understand how Mae is attracted to old weird things.....how else can you explain Othias??? On a serious note, many of the European handguns underscore their belief that they ARE NOT a primary weapon. This attitude changed slowly, with even WWII carry often involving "you got to be kidding" side arms. The interesting thing about the period from1860s to WWII is how many different ways can you design a firearm to do basically the same thing. Personally I've been trying to find a Reichsrevolver at a decent price for a few years.....but the more recent attention/publicity (thank you Othias) has jacked the market up.

Cudgel might be a better word than billy club, just sounds better, to me anyway. Really like the series, I have experience with about 3-5 % of your subjects, and am in agreement on your conclusions (though contusions would be a better word in re the richsrevolver).

Does anybody else own a 5gal pail of sweet baby rays on it (the marking not the sauce)

I still can't figure out what they were thinking with that safety, it's like it was put there to beat your thumb, and nothing else.

Now for the all-important question: which would you pick in a gunfight? A walker or an 1879 reichsrevolver?

I’m imagining lanyard rings and BBQ sauce