Westworld Le Mat

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

Westworld le mat.

Pieta lemat cartridge conversion. The guns of westworld. The wonderful guns of westworld. Beauregard who became a general in the confederate states army.

Based on the ammunition and headstamps from the show 38 short colt we have something of an enigma. Johnson hbo new old west. He has some 50 years of experience. Westworld lemat revolver i was commissioned to create the revolver you can see the man in black using in the show westworld.

Who s buying the pieces. The custom lemat revolver is used by the man in black. It was developed in new orleans in 1856 by jean alexandre le mat whose manufacturing effort was backed by p. There was a centerfire version chambered in 12 mm 24 ga.

In the first episode we caught a glimpse of the grip and trigger and thought it was a lemat. The westworld lemat is most certainly is a black powder conversion as opposed to one of the later cartridge lemats. This is a 10 shot handgun it fires nine 38 short colt cartridges and a single brass shotgun shell in an underbarrel shotgun. Mike the mook someone asked us what kind of revolver ed harris man in black character was packing in hbo s new series westworld.

Fewer than 100 were made by john krider of philadelphia pennsylvania in 1859 including the first 25 prototypes. One of westworld s colorful characters the man in black played by ed harris wields a unique lemat revolver. It is an expensively customized two barrelled weapon. A new kind of shotgun.

2 of 12 photo by john p. Frank bird from hemet ca is the master gunsmith who perfected this type of conversion. What gun would you use to hunt a werewolf. At the time there was a gun shop in a neighboring town that would produce firearms f.

Also about 10 years ago i looked into having one made for myself.