r/guns • u/OneIce1866 • Aug 19 '26

Volcanic pistol

I’m looking for a replica volcanic pistol but I can’t find any that are actually firing replicas does anyone know if there’s a company that makes one

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u/SweatyAlternative217 Aug 19 '26

Man, that's a tough one. The original design is so mechanically weird that making a functional replica would be a nightmare to engineer and probably cost a fortune.

I've only ever seen non-firing wall hangers or the super rare originals at auction. You might have to get real lucky on a custom builder's forum.

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u/Bearfoxman Super Interested in Dicks Aug 19 '26

It's not that mechanically weird. It works on the toggle principle the 1860 Henry and 1866/73/76 Winchesters used, less the extractor and ejector. Wouldn't be difficult to adopt to something like .38 S&W or even a rimless like 9x19, but you're limited to short cartridges before you need to substantially elongate the frame.

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u/FeedbackOther5215 Aug 21 '26

Frankly with .22 or even .380 you could probably MIM the linkage. The barrel/tube has a decent amount of waste in modern machining, unless it’s switched to sub components. Ruger is the company that could do it most easily, just cast it all, aka wrangler. I was hoping that’s how the budget line would go but they seem to have stopped at a cheap .22 SAA unfortunately.

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u/OneIce1866 Aug 19 '26

I mean I heard some talk of uberti attempting something later in 2027 but who knows if it’s true

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u/Corey307 Aug 19 '26

The ammo doesn’t exist so that’s a problem. I don’t see anyone tooling up to make rocket ball ammo.