You need to see what this dude in Poland has been doing...

[Finn45]

Now is he very small or does the table deface the view?

http://img233.echo.cx/img233/2552/tobys018dh.jpg

http://img233.echo.cx/img233/7410/tobys021nh.jpg

[wills]

My Polish is kind of rusty. Can someone translate?

[imashooter2]

Why? Just because he can...

[Ed Barrett]

Is he going to make one with a shorter barrel for a carry model?

[9.3X62AL]

It's not a whole lot larger than the BFRs and Smith 500 :-)

[Swagerman]

Fake picture, not really that size gun, super imposed photo.

Every one knows it takes five guys to load and fire a gun that size. Four to work the ram and load the ball and powder, and one guy dumb enough to pull the trigger.

Gimme a break... [smilie=l:

[Finn45]

Here's some info in English:
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=58252

Any info on suitable shoulder holster make and model?

[carpetman]

Finn45---Thanks for the link in English--now I know what it is--it is a miniature revolver---here in Texas,we go in for big things(except trucks--we tend to drive very small trucks for some reason--some kind of correlation deal) so when I couldnt read what it was didn't pay much attention. Do have to admire the patience of someone working with something that tiny and getting the detail work in it.

[Buckshot]

..............First of all I'd like to say that it appears to be some damn fine machine work. I wonder what it's made out of? Maybe aluminum with steel barrel and cylinder chambers? I'd have thought that it would have weighed more then that. At 28mm which is a bit more then an inch, the bore isn't to scale with the revolver, I don't believe. But then I guess he'd have had to set her in concrete to shoot it, unless it was on an axle.

I wonder if he could have built that under the communist regime?

Interesting as it appears that 'Remington' is standing alone in the Polish article without further explaination? Must be a household name in that country too :-)

Very neat deal. Wonder if he's a home shop machinist? Sure looks like he did a fine job in the reproduction.

................Buckshot

[Ballistics in Scotland]

Fine, enterprising people, the Poles. We got ours in wartime, heavily self-selected and including my uncle, so we don't have many Polack jokes. I also saw a nine-year-old Polish boy, on a visit to Scotland, do as well as many an adult on his first lesson at firing a .243 Ackley Improved from the bench. A lot better than my nephew with my air-rifle, that's for sure. I sometimes wonder if they fix those plastic wristbands tight enough in maternity hospitals.

May I translate:

"Smallest man in the world leads active life in Poland."

[Finn45]

I was thinking (yeah great) again about shooting a piece like that. Weight of the revolver is said to be 45 kilograms, meaning about 99 pounds. Projectiles are said to be 136 grams meaning about 2100 grains (very close to pure lead ball diameter of 28millimeters/1.10"). Original revolver (according to some replica maker's specs) weighs about 2.7 pounds and lead round ball .454 diameter weighs about 140 grains. It means that Polski Remington is more than 36 times heavier than original and projectile is about 15 times heavier than .454" round ball. Maybe that revolver is actually very "shootable" over the bench and maybe it just sets back a little with surely relatively "light" charges used anyway. Btw it was model 1858, not 1859 eh?