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Gila is a striker-fired, break open, 8 round revolver with integrated top rail and flash hider. It’s fully ambidextrous, with the striker in the center top of the revolver, and the opening latch and cross-bolt safety on both sides. The cylinder is made of a magnesium alloy, making it as light as aluminum, but as strong as titanium alloys.It’s available in two barrel lengths: 2” and 6”. The six inch model revolver, the Gila 6, is made of anodized titanium, and comes standard with a black PU leather grip.
The two inch model is also available as the Gila Special, with a black stainless steel body, a mini-dot sight, orange details, an orange fiberglass front sight and a PU leather gila monster styled grip.
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i'll probably post it on my page once it's done.
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I love this art piece but I got a couple questions.
How are you going to thumb back that hammer? It looks like you pull it rather than thumb it back. Also why striker fire? That seems pretty odd for a revolver.
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Started shooting revolvers not too long ago. The new paradigm for effective revolver shooting is to just fire double action all the time during self defense (or even competition) shooting. The focus on double action maximizes your skill in it, even if you're shooting at long ranges- which, to be honest, is pretty rare even in the most practical and real of circumstances.
So having to pull back the striker for single action shooting isn't really a problem.
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I know I got a DA/SA revolver. I like to shoot single action when I’m going for accuracy. In self defense accuracy doesn’t matter much, of course, so double action is preferred. But I still like the lighter trigger when I’m trying to hit the bullseye on a paper target or something.
But it still looks like it would be hard to pull it back, it could have a “hook” to get a better grip on it when cocking for single action.
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It is odd indeed. I wanted to do something odd ^^
Since it’s a smooth double action, you don’t need to manually pull it back. And if you choose to do so for badass reasons, then you pull it back like a Ruger pistol. Glad to hear you like it though
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And I am guessing there is a snub double action only variant as well? (I.e without the cocking piece).
Though there isn’t really much to grab onto if you want a single action pull. Maybe add a “hook” for the finger to pull it back easier?
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Yeah I’ve been thinking about making it easier to grab. But I guess the only reason the striker is even accessible is for maintenance. Otherwise you’d just double action it. There’s no reason for single action in this day and age in my opinion ^^
I considered the 2” already rather snubby.... but you’re thinking of going full pocket pistol. Cut off tiny grip with two finger indents, nothing to snag on something, rather non-existent barrel.. I’m up for that!
I’m still planning on doing a luxury golden version as well as a carbine version
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Awesome! That’ll probably be around €98.000 considering the materials I chose to use haha
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Hope your latching setup is stronger than the old pistols of the late 19th to the early 20th Century.
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Why is that, did they just unlatch out of nowhere? D:
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There was a thumb latch on the left side of the frame by the hammer. You just place your thumb on it and push to release the upper frame and barrel. The cylinder would rise and the star would eject the cartridges due to a cam pushing on the star rod.
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Yeah but that’s just the normal function of it? Or did this happen already without actually pushing the latch?
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After the barrel was unlatched and the muzzle pushed down to open the weapon, the camming action was down while the barrel was hinging open. Then the ejector star would drop back into place as the end of shaft would drop into a notch passed the cam via a return spring.
Hope that helps.
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I think we had some miscommunication there 😅
I know how revolvers work, I just wondered what the issue was with old break open revolvers.
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The problem was the weakness of the latching system, especially when the revolver was using a large powerful cartridge. The loop holding the top strap frame in place was weak in the amount of metal used for holding it in place.
On smaller calibers, .32 to .38, it was holding the whole gun together better. The only problem with this type of latching was that the metal would crystallize from repeated firings, as in a combat situation. But with better metallurgy today, one could resurrect this type of firearm, such as the ones you've shown.
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As powder yes but when its alloyed into metal form, no.
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As an alloy you don't have that problem.
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I suppose the question was answered already ^^
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Never played GTA after GTA 2 haha. Why so though?
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This looks awesome. By the way, considering that this revolver is eight rounds, what kind of ammunition used this weapon?
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Thanks! Well first I wanted to make the cylinders expendable, like the cartridges are manufactured in there. But that would be inconvenient for when you’ve fired 4 or 5 and then want to reload. What are you gonna do, just toss away 3 or 4 usable rounds?
So then I thought to make the cylinders light and cheap enough to just carry a few of them with you like magazines. So I guess it uses standard revolver cartridges like the 38 special or 357 mag.
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That's great, dude. The effort you put into this is great. Also, thank you for clarifying my doubts about that, although I think it would be good to put in the description of these weapons the type of ammunition they use since several don't seem to have that information. For the rest, keep up the great work, dude. Greetings.
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Yeah I kinda forgot about about that 😬
Also I just really wanted to upload this because I’ve got a commission that I have to start working on very soon. I’m not done with this revolver yet though, there’ll be a luxury version and a carbine
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Regarding the first one, there is not much problem.
Regarding the second one, I hope you succeed in your commission. Greetings.
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It will probably be posted here again 
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That sounds good. I will wait for the update. Greetings.
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While I am not a fan of break open revolvers, I like the look of this one. 8 rounds, what caliber you figure?
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Oh boy I haven’t thought about that at all. Whatever you want it to be, pal. .38 Special? .357 Mag? No problem ^^ glad you like it!
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You should look up the Ruger Redhawk in .357 Magnum, or the Smith & Wesson Model 327 or 627 or R8, or even the obscure Mateba MTR8 for a size comparison. 8 shots of .38 Special means a big cylinder.
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Yeahhh probably :/ I haven’t done much research about this at all. Perhaps I really should’ve, considering this is my first ever revolver.
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Cylinder walls would be thin with larger calibers, then again its using advanced alloy's so maybe you could get away with it. I think .38 Special would be good though, not many guns around that use it anymore.
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Revolver shooter here. .38 Special is THE revolver cartridge even today. It really helps that ammo makers have put a lot of technological improvements into the caliber, from propellant to bullet. Anything other than .38 Special is either a minority alternative or a novelty.
Semi-rimmed cartridges you see in autoloaders need a revolver built just for them and the number of models that do so are a fraction compared to .38 Special. You need either moon clips or a pencil to eject spent cartridges from their cylinder. That puts 9mm and .45 ACP out.
You'll see an overwhelming majority of currently available/produced revolvers in .357 Magnum today more so than .38 Special. However, note that .357 Magnum revolvers can chamber and fire .38 Special no problem (but NOT the other way around!). And most people who carry a revolver do load them with .38 Special instead. That because the flash, bang, and felt recoil of .357 Magnum is disorienting and overwhelming, especially in the lighter weight firearms (around 25 oz. or less, usually less) favored by most shooters who carry concealed.
There's also .44 Special (like the Charter Arms Bulldog used by serial killer son of Sam) and .44 Magnum (Dirty Harry's gun), but they're either hard to find (the former) or way too powerful for even law enforcement or practical use (the latter).
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Really? I read online that it’s still one of the most used cartridges
Them alloys indeed! Had to come up with something to make this boring revolver more interesting
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