[Garegaupa]

How about this:

This is a LE MAT two-barrel Revolver. This gun is a transitional model having all features of the first model, with the exception of the loading lever mounted on the left side. Girard & Co., Paris, France manufactured it. It was produced circa 1860. The inventor of this unusual weapon was Dr. Jean Alexander Francois Le Mat of New Orleans, Louisiana. He and P. G. T. Beauregard tried to manufacture this revolver in America. Their efforts were unsuccessful. Le Mat then went to Paris where Dr. Girard became a partner and manufactured the revolvers. They have a 9 shot cylinder of .42 caliber and a .63 caliber shotgun barrel.

-Civil War Preservations

[Centurion2000]

I've seen those before ... they are nice but would shatter under the pressures that I put my guns through ....

Now a good idea would be a 45/454 revolver with a 12 gause (or even a long 50 cal shtogun shell) center barrel has some very interesting possibilities

[Inyo-Mono]

This is a LE MAT two-barrel Revolver. This gun is a transitional model having all features of the first model, with the exception of the loading lever mounted on the left side. Girard & Co., Paris, France manufactured it. It was produced circa 1860. The inventor of this unusual weapon was Dr. Jean Alexander Francois Le Mat of New Orleans, Louisiana. He and P. G. T. Beauregard tried to manufacture this revolver in America. Their efforts were unsuccessful. Le Mat then went to Paris where Dr. Girard became a partner and manufactured the revolvers. They have a 9 shot cylinder of .42 caliber and a .63 caliber shotgun barrel.

These pistols have unbeliveable firepower! My brother has a black powder replica made by Navy Arms and I have fired it several times. Nine shot .44 with either #7 shot or a .62 caliber ball in the big center chamber. I'm still shaking from the last time I shot it.

[strongbow]

Nathan Bedford Forrest I think carried two of these bad boys while driving the Northern imperialists crazy during the war for Southern Independance. Before the rants about the Civil War begin that was a bit of hyperbole to start things rolling. He was famous for disrupting enemy supply lines and causing maximum havoc so much that Grant has a huge bounty on his head but never caught up with him. One of the original hit and run warfare types ( like Mosby ) he was credited with the maxim of getting there "firstest with the mostest". The Lemat in no small part was responsible for his ability to lay down maximum firepower in close range and do the job needed. Wonderful firearm.

RD

[Smokin' Joe]

The LeMAt was popular among Mosby's raiders, and other mounted units.