@valleyforge John Moses Browning never got around to perfecting it
@valleyforge Really liked the idea behind the COP .357 and I'd probably hunt one down if they'd done the rifling better. The word is they'd keyhole. Why move barrels when you could just move the firing pin?
@Diptchip i meant rotating barrel locking systems like the savage automatic pistols or the beretta px4. Also those cop derringers can go for a ridiculous amount of money for some reason
@valleyforge Something makes them a fraction more expensive. Typically the cam block is on the bottom and is removable. Leaving the 1912 Steyr-Hahn aside, the only successful rotating barrel pistol is Beretta Px4. I think Grand Power is perhaps the 2nd most popular/common. The Boberg/Bond is an expensive and weird boutique, Glock 46 is in a very limited production, GSh-18 is endemic to Russia. The lack of the rotating barrel guns makes finding a rotation isolator for a suppressor a difficult proposition, and nobody makes isolators because there aren't any rotating barrel guns. #guns
@gat the savage automatics were very successful in the 1910's to 20's
@valleyforge @gat isn't a Desert Eagle did it, maybe there is something about efficiency of scale from an engineering perspective?
@Coyote @valleyforge DE has a rotating bolt, like an AK or AR. Its barrel is fixed in place.
@valleyforge @gat Oh, barrel, time to increase my font size... LOL... I read bolt, then expanded the thread.
