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Ten shot cylinder? Have you any idea how big the cylinder would have to be to accomodate ten?

The Mateba is a shooter and plinker. It has to experienced at least once. That’s why I bought the three I have. When I bought the first one it had no collector status at all since they were still in production. I had ever reason to keep shooting it but I was sidetracked with other toys.

If there was a caliber that I wish it came in, it would have to be either .40 or .45 Auto. Just redesign the cylinder for moon clips.

The three mistakes are:
There’s two recoil springs supplied for the guns I bought. One for .38 Special and one for .357 Magnum so that comment about not cycling with weak loads doesn’t really hold true.

The cylinder swings from the bottom like a normal one. Take a good look at the picture.

The article implies the cylinder advances on the recoil. Yes and no. The hammer is recocked by the rearward movement but the cylinder advances when the upper returns to battery on the forward stroke to minimize unnecessary shock from heavier loads.

It would have to be about the size of a standard N frame smith and wesson. The N frame holds 8 rounds of .357 caliber ammo, or 6 rounds of 45 caliber ammo. 30 caliber is even smaller than 357 so you should be able to get at least 9 rounds of 30 into an N frame. I’d have to draw a true scale picture of the 30 caliber holes arranged circularly in a cylinder to prove it, but I bet 10 of them would fit in a standard N frame cylinder. If not then just go up to the X frame size cylinder.

My brainstorm was a cattleman carbine version of the mateba with a ten round cylinder shooting 30 carbine. Not sure how well it would work though since the barrel has to recoil along with the cylinder. Maybe the barrel would have to be fairly short to keep the weight down, like say a 12 incher.

Also, it would be cool if mateba could incorporate the Nagant gas seal mechanism into their design.