![]() 38/9mm/.357 ammunition range (Does not include. Per this page it is accurate, and was an $899 gun:Ĭaliber:Ĝan chamber, fire, and extract almost any cartridges in the. Approximately 219 pistols were sold in the US and 25 went to Switzerland and a few to Germany before Phillips & Rogers decided to close the business. 357 ammo…Ī sound concept but flawed in practice, the pistol worked flawlessly but was ultimately considered a commercial failure since no one appreciated the concept. Might be cheaper and easier to just lay in a crate of 9 mm or. But now Weird Gun collectors are hot for them so used prices are up around $1500. One small problem, though, only a few hundred were made / sold. OTOH, if you just need it to go BANG with whatever crap cartridges you can scrounge… No idea how efficient or accurate it would be with all that variable bullet jump to the forcing cone & rifling. ![]() The revolver also has a double-tapered forcing cone which is supposed to work with the wide variety of cartridges the Medusa is supposed to chamber this forcing cone forces the rounds into the same orientation every time so they can chamber. Hunziker eventually designed the 3 piece firing pin to prevent primer puncture and patented it. It is said quite a bit of design work went into designing this. These fingers allow the weapon to headspace both rimless and rimmed cartridges these fingers hold the rounds in place so that the firing pin can actually hit the cartridge and fire it. ![]() The weapon’s cylinder is what makes the weapon rather interesting the cylinder has a special extractor with six small flexible fingers on the rod of the extractor star. The barrel itself is made of 4150 chromemoly steel and is available in lengths from 2.5 to 6 inches (6.4 to 15.2 centimeters) and is also fluted however, the fluting appears to only be for aesthetic purposes since the effects of the barrel heating up appear to not be that significant in a gun of this size. The Medusa’s frame is made of 8620 steel hardened to 28 Rockwell this allows it to withstand the various pressures of the rounds it fires. The revolver’s cylinder is made of mil-spec 4330 vanadium steel, the same type of alloy used in the barrels of the M61 Vulcan used by F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets. Oh, and a special firing pin…Įssentially a Smith & Wesson K-Frame, the Medusa is a rather simplistic-looking but well-made revolver at first glance however, there are some notable differences and other points of note that make the revolver much more different and rather interesting. How does it do that? Special metals, special hardening, and an extractor with little fingers on it to hold rimless cartridges at an acceptable head spacing. It would be a lousy shot of very low actual power. 32 ACP, may well “go bang”, but the bullet will be making no gas seal and will be rattling around in the barrel. 30 caliber rounds in it with the same case head, such as the mentioned Tokarev and. The Medusa cannot fire the 9mm Makarov cartridge safely as it is actually a 9.2mm cartridge. ![]() The weapon is also able to fire some sub-.38 caliber cartridges, such as 7.62×25mm Tokarev and. ![]() 357 Remington Maximum cartridges as they are too long to chamber properly. 356 TSW and is speculated to be able to fire 9×21mm IMI. Other than the above, the weapon can fire cartridges such as. The “original” 25 calibers (actually 18) the weapon was claimed to be able to fire are as follows: However, including obscure cartridges, the weapon can actually fire up to 117 different cartridges (and possibly more). 357 caliber families in various press material involving it. Touted for its ability to fire multiple calibers, the Medusa was advertised to fire at least 25 in the. ![]()
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