The Medusa had several flaws ....
that doomed it. The "fingers" on the extractors tended to break, either tying up the gun or keeping it from extracting the fired cartridge.
Since the chambers were set up to work with a bunch of different cartridges it did not work as well as a normal revolver with any particular cartridge.
Phillips & Rodgers Inc. of Huntsville, Texas produced a little over 200 of them. A friend of mine ended up with the tooling and made a few guns but was never able to get them reliable and gave it up.
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Slow Hand,
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- The Medusa had several flaws .... -
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JimT,
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JimT,
2023-05-31, 22:54
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- My FIL owned a Medusa for a short time, - AkRay, 2023-06-06, 00:34
- The Medusa had several flaws .... -
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- The Medusa had several flaws .... -
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