The LeMat, however, married a legacy of repeating and multi-purpose arms to create, what he had hoped, would be the ultimate side arm of the military. The 10-Shot LeMat Revolver The LeMat shot a ...

The LeMat revolver is one of the interesting curiosities of the Civil War, a revolver with a shotgun barrel in the center, hence the nickname “grapeshot revolver.” It was invented in 1856 by ...

The LeMat "grape-shot" revolver was a favorite of Confederate cavalrymen during the Civil War thanks to its central shotgun barrel and nine-shot cylinder. Later, LeMats were also made as cartridge ...

The LeMat is a nine-round revolver that also packs a secondary barrel capable of firing shotgun shells. What this means, basically, is that it has the relatively accuracy of a pistol (or high rate ...

This gave the LeMat a highly unusual appearance, both then and today. The cylinder held both .40 and .42 ammunition and a larger .60 caliber/20 gauge shotgun ammunition.

LeMat designed a percussion revolver with a nine-shot .42-cal. cylinder, which also incorporated a percussion-fired central 20-ga. shotgun barrel located underneath the main barrel.