Functional 3D Printed Hybrid Pepperbox .22: the PG22 Maverick

By Dean Weingarten

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- Ralph Peters, in Wisconsin, has created a hybrid 3D printed functional cartridge revolver, with metal components. It has been demonstrated on Youtube. The design is an interesting hybrid pepperbox, with rifled barrels.

The video gives a good explanation and documentation of this six-shot pepperbox. Peters designed the handgun to fire .22 shorts.

The barrels for the revolver are made with .22 barrel liner, which is easily available by mail order. One of the reasons to use barrel liner is it is commercially rifled. This meets the requirements for a rifled barrel, to have the firearm classified as a pistol instead of a short-barreled shotgun, in the United States.

As a historical note, the first successful cartridge revolver in the United States was chambered in .22 short. It was the Smith & Wesson No. 1. The velocity of the black powder short cartridge with the 29-grain bullet was listed as 850 feet per second in the July 19th edition of Shooting and Fishing, 1906.

The modern high velocity short cartridge lists a muzzle velocity of 1132 feet per second out of a rifle. Out of the short barrel of the PG22 Maverick, the …Read the Rest

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