Westworld Le Mat

The wonderful guns of westworld.

Westworld le mat.

In the first episode we caught a glimpse of the grip and trigger and thought it was a lemat. Frank bird from hemet ca is the master gunsmith who perfected this type of conversion. A new kind of shotgun. Fewer than 100 were made by john krider of philadelphia pennsylvania in 1859 including the first 25 prototypes.

At the time there was a gun shop in a neighboring town that would produce firearms f. Mike the mook someone asked us what kind of revolver ed harris man in black character was packing in hbo s new series westworld. One of westworld s colorful characters the man in black played by ed harris wields a unique lemat revolver. Westworld lemat revolver i was commissioned to create the revolver you can see the man in black using in the show westworld.

Based on the ammunition and headstamps from the show 38 short colt we have something of an enigma. He has some 50 years of experience. The guns of westworld. It s a lemat modified to shoot cartridges instead of the original black powder.

What gun would you use to hunt a werewolf. When we saw details in the second episode we confirmed it but with a twist. 2 of 12 photo by john p. Also about 10 years ago i looked into having one made for myself.

It was developed in new orleans in 1856 by jean alexandre le mat whose manufacturing effort was backed by p. The 5 greatest gunfights of the old west. It is an expensively customized two barrelled weapon. Beauregard who became a general in the confederate states army.

Pieta lemat cartridge conversion. Who s buying the pieces. The westworld lemat is most certainly is a black powder conversion as opposed to one of the later cartridge lemats. Johnson hbo new old west.

The custom lemat revolver is used by the man in black.