Westworld Le Mat

When we saw details in the second episode we confirmed it but with a twist.

Westworld le mat. What gun would you use to hunt a werewolf. This is a 10 shot handgun it fires nine 38 short colt cartridges and a single brass shotgun shell in an underbarrel shotgun. It is an expensively customized two barrelled weapon. It s a lemat modified to shoot cartridges instead of the original black powder.

The guns of westworld. The westworld lemat is most certainly is a black powder conversion as opposed to one of the later cartridge lemats. Who s buying the pieces. One of westworld s colorful characters the man in black played by ed harris wields a unique lemat revolver.

In the first episode we caught a glimpse of the grip and trigger and thought it was a lemat. At the time there was a gun shop in a neighboring town that would produce firearms f. Johnson hbo new old west. It was developed in new orleans in 1856 by jean alexandre le mat whose manufacturing effort was backed by p.

Frank bird from hemet ca is the master gunsmith who perfected this type of conversion. The custom lemat revolver is used by the man in black. A new kind of shotgun. Beauregard who became a general in the confederate states army.

Fewer than 100 were made by john krider of philadelphia pennsylvania in 1859 including the first 25 prototypes. Also about 10 years ago i looked into having one made for myself. 2 of 12 photo by john p. Pieta lemat cartridge conversion.

The wonderful guns of westworld. Mike the mook someone asked us what kind of revolver ed harris man in black character was packing in hbo s new series westworld. The most notable feature is the shotgun barrel which the cylinder rotates around. Westworld lemat revolver i was commissioned to create the revolver you can see the man in black using in the show westworld.

He has some 50 years of experience.