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Mateba Unica 6: A Semiauto Revolver in .44 Magnum
🕑 Added 2023-09-09 12:00:02 +0000 UTCThe Mateba 6 Unica is the culmination of a series of revolver development by Italian designer Emilio Ghisoni (1937-2008). The Unica 6 is one of only a few self-cocking revolvers to see commercial production and sales (the other two being the Union and the Webley-Fosbery). It was available in .357 Magnum, .44. Magnum (like today's example), and .454 Casull. All three could be used with the associated Special ammunition with a recoil spring swap. In addition, the Unica 6 fired from the bottom chamber of its cylinder, which allowed it to use an open frame design with powerful magnum cartridges (Ghisoni was also involved in the other common revolver with this feature, the Chiappa Rhino).
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Loke von Post
Now that's one cool revolver! Both this one and other Mateba you've done a video on look super funky and cool, though this one seems honestly a little impractical to me. Guess you could target shoot bears with it or something? Well, I guess there's a sport for these sorts of things wherever the police aren't worried about civilians presumably blowing apart their body armour, but still... A thing I started wondering when you were talking about the semi-auto disconnect is whether someone (not in their garage, but, like, something of proper quality) has ever made a full-auto revolver? Thoroughly impractical? Ooh yeah, like nobody's business! Also silly cool and a really interesting thing to see? You bet! :D
Tim The Enchanter
Ian, you should do a comparison with the Chiappa Rhino since there are some similarities
ViejoLobo
May have missed it, but is that a DA/SA action?
z c
I bet the recoil impulse on it is wild. I was shooting my S&W 1917 yesterday and I forgot how fun revolvers are
Guido Schriewer
cool. wonder how that feel. bet othius would love to hang with a magnifier above those mechanics a day or so two. hmm. so would I. see, I waited much longer to finally shoot a lar grizz in 45wm. wow what a sweety.
Patrick Benjamin
I love the Cyberpunk look and from my understanding the gun was the side arm of a very popular Japanese cartoon character in "City Hunter". #FlexMyNerdom
