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What's the revolver on the old pachmayr grip boxes?
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middlecalf
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April 15, 2015 - 11:47 pm
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Not familiar with any revolvers with right-side opening cylinders, except an old French made revolver (which this drawing isn't).  Just curious what this is and why Pachmayr chose this for their box cover.Old-Pachmayr-grip-box-1.jpg

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April 16, 2015 - 12:57 am
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It's just a modified S&W.  The same can be done with a Dan Wesson also.  wow

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That's  pretty sweet Harly. There is another possibility though. In printing a negative, or up to four negatives for color photos,  are used to "burn" a printing plate. If the negative was flipped over during the plate making process it will be the exact copy in reverse. If you hold up a sign to a mirror you see the reverse. It is the same principle. Mistakes of that nature can sometimes be not realized for VERY long times. The news show for I believe ABC years ago started the show showing the Earth spinning. It was on for years before someone realized  the sun was rising in the West. Middlecalf, you may be the first person to realize the picture on the box is backwards. 

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Ole Dog, I think Harly's messing with you/ us... photoshop is a sunnova- a modern day reverse image is pretty easy to do now days.

Technically, the glass is always full; half liquid, half air....

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Yup, I now have a left-hand Model 15.coolLeft-hand-Model-15.jpg

Yikes, I probably just added $$$'s to the value of pachmayrs in these old boxes.

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These are the rare southern hemisphere variants.  Due to the Coriolis effect,  in the southern hemisphere, opening the cylinder to the left is troublesome. 

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April 20, 2015 - 5:35 pm
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Well, then, of course there would be the northern-hemisphere version

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Can only imagine what was going on at the Pachmayr factory... I'm thinking of a Lucile Ball episode... yeah this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPzLBSBzPI big-grin

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And then there's the box for those that don't know who Mr. Coriolis is.

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