I just heard about this on my podcast tonight.
PRICEY!!
Cool but expensive.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm............Cabot Guns! Lovely 1911 pistols, Made in Pittsburgh.
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Nickle iron Meteors large enough to make a pistol already costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. I assume one would have to melt, or at least forge the metal to make it maleable enough to form the pieces, Losing the meteor look and feel. I suppose you could just machine the gun from the hunk of meteoric metal. But would it look like a meteor? Or be strong enough? Just grips left in a meteoric shape would remain more valuable
I want mine made from a Kryptonite meteorite. That way, when my guys empty their guns on Superman’s chest, and they throw the empty gun at him in frustration, it may do some good.
Maybe they won’t jam like every other 1911 that tries to feed anything other than ogive ball ammo and not has had the barrel throated.
Flame away like a meteorite in the atmosphere!
Cabot makes some very, very high end 1911s.
I have a slab of a meteorite in a bezel I wear on a chain. It too was discovered in Africa in the 19th century, but I believe it was around 1870.
You can see striations of nickel crystals within the iron. Very interesting.
No, thank you. Guns are tools, and I want mine made well, not from cute materials. Besides, as a charter member of the FR Canoe Club, I’m not willing to spend much on any firearm.
Reminiscent of the mostly-fanciful movie, “The Iron Mistress”, with Alan Ladd. In it, Bowie saw a meteorite land and found it. He then had a knife made out of it, so it became the famous Bowie Knife.
Early 1950s. As a kid, I loved the movie. Saw it again as a grown-up and it was schmaltzy.
Interesting. I’ll just have to keep on with the old
Smith & Wesson revolver I inherited from my great-great
grandfather. It gits the job done!
Will the bullets for the meteorite gun be made from
meteorites?
I read the title and thought...THE IRON MISTRESS with Alan Ladd.
Why pistols?
There has always been an esoteric ‘oooooo-pretty’ to knives made from meteorites, and a continuing mythos that goes with them, along with those that would, indeed, pay the price stated, no questions asked.
The story goes that the original knife made for Jim Bowie was fashioned from a meteorite, and ever since there has been a mythos attached to that knife, and all that followed it.
Must be tough to machine and who knows what the strength would be of the alloy.
Will they be evil like Jim Bowie’s knife?
And what are they calling them, Nothung?