Austro-Hungarian Gasser Revolver
May 24, 2008 9:09 am
The Gasser Army revolver was an open-framed heavy-bore revolver from the late 19th Century that was adopted as the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry revolver as the Gasser M1870. It holds five rounds of 11.2mm centrefire, a long heavy round known as the 11mm Montenegrin that was used in the earlier Fruwirth carbines.
7 Responses to “Austro-Hungarian Gasser Revolver”
That pistol is beautiful.
11.2mm?
must have packed quite a punch.
Glad to see you’re back.
Now that is a hand cannon! Glad to see you are back.
Gunporn lives again! Welcome back, I’ve missed my regular doses of weapons fetishism.
I have a Gasser in my posession, not nearly as nice as this one. It`s an amazing piece of old technology. For todays standards it may be crude but it`s effective non the less. Huge size, considerable weight and probably (not tested by myself) enormous stoping power.
I’ve been trying to find out about this for some time. This picture looks identical to the gun I have.
The one I have has a serious amount of fancy engraving pretty much all over it. On the barrel it only has: Officier Penin 1877. No other engraving. Right now a friend has it trying to figure out what it might be worth.
There’s a long history to it with my family but I know we’ve had it for at least 60 years and it was blued about 50 years ago. I here that’s not so good.
Thanks for any informtion you might have but you’ve already told me much more than I knew.
Bernie
Damn, that thing is cool. It looks steampunk, almost.
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