This one was made in Nuremberg by Hans Stopler, so I suppose raise a stein to German engineering. Once again it never fails to impress. Revolvers wouldn’t become commercially successful & produced in mass quantities until the 1800s.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/11/15/worlds-oldest-known-revolver/
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One would not be wise to enter into a duel at the time with the one person that owned this.
So in my DND campaign setting, I had planned on black powder being a pretty recent discovery, called flashsand by the country who discovered it. One of my players wanted to be a gunslinger, so we worked out that he would have the first gun, built by his father who had to hide from the military to keep it out of the wrong hands. He wanted a revolver and to be a proto-desperado type, and I frankly didn’t want to litigate logistics with a first-time player. I had been having a tough time squaring the circle between “first gun” and “revolver” but this is a perfect middleground!
Glad to help! Technological adoption is never instant.
Today we’ve had jet packs, flying cars, and rocket pistols for years. In the case of the latter over a century even. But that doesn’t mean every Tom, Dick, and Harry flys to work.
But if you’ve got the cash or know how maybe you can.
Forgive my ignorance, but where would the original owner have bought bullets for this?
The bullets would have been round lead balls. You could cast them yourself fairly easily. I would imagine the person who owned this would have been rich enough to have their own personal armorer to cast bullets for them.
Here’s a mold:
Then to load it you would follow the same procedures you would follow to load a normal flintlock pistol.
As a guy who dabbles a lot in black powder guns… My guess is that it was very rare to make it through a full cylinder without a malfunction
