What kind of revolver is this specimen?

[Onty]

Just found picture of this weird revolver:

I couldn't believe what's on the picture! Any idea who made this awkward and cumbersome revolver?

 

[LoonWulf]

Looks like a modified super dakota, ive only ever shot one tho so could well be wrong.

Really looks like bad photography to me......but again not my area of expertise

 

[Riomouse911]

Looks like a Super Blackhawk’s ugly stepsister…

I have no idea.

Stay safe.

 

[roscoe]

That's the SuperTopStrap. For hip-shooting only.

 

[Mauser lover]

Something from the Khyber Pass. It looks quite homemade.

 

[Old_Grouch]

Something from the Khyber Pass. It looks quite homemade.

That is my guess as well. There are two ways to give a metal object the strength it needs to do the job.
1. Use an appropriate alloy, properly heat treated.
2. Use an excess amount of cheap, soft, junk.
Certain manufacturing regions, when making guns with constrained dimensions use cheap, soft, junk anyway. If it falls apart, locks up, or blows up, "oh well".

 

[v8stang289]

Looks like a 5 year old drew a Super Blackhawk from memory...

 

[Slamfire]

Occasionally I read about 45/70 revolvers made by machinists. Elmer Keith shot one. There were huge numbers of WW2 veterans who were trained in the service for maintenance activities, and many of them made rifles and pistols. I think it possible that this pistol is one of these, based on a Ruger Blackhawk with a Colt Dragoon trigger guard.

I hate the squared off trigger guard on my Super Blackhawks, the thing takes meat off my fingers. Stylistic yes, practicable, no.

A small camera lense will make the barrel look curved. Been there, done that.

People with too much time on their hands do crazy stuff!

 

[Onty]

The revolver on the first post looks like uglier relative of Phelps Heritage:

To be frank, this one isn't my cup of tea either.

 

[doubleh]

I hate the squared off trigger guard on my Super Blackhawks, the thing takes meat off my fingers. Stylistic yes, practicable, no.

That would depend entirely on the shooter. I love the square back trigger guard on the SBH because it doesn't beat up my middle finger like the standard BH does and I don't own the BH for that reason alone.

 

[mavracer]

Looks like a Century 4570 but I've never seen one with blued frame or fixed rear sight

 

[CraigC]

Looks like the big Century Arms .45/70. I was working in a gun shop in 1995 when one came in. Brand new, wouldn't carry-up. Think it cost two grand back then.

 

[Mauser lover]

No way that's $2000. Look at that front sight!

 

[halfmoonclip]

The cylinder and gripframe look factory, while the barrel and cylinder frame, well, not so much. Definitely something Third World about it.
High as the frame is above the cylinder, it's hard to believe the front sight would work.
Moon

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

Glock trying to make a 1911? (PUT DOWN THAT ROCK)