In addition, their barrels can be changed with interchangeable 3", 4", 5", 6", 7" and 8" inch barrels. Dynamic Sportiva - Either 5" or 6" barrel.The following are the primary variants of the Mateba revolver: After this receivership period, all remaining stock leftover including parts was sold to CDNN Investments in Abilene, Texas and liquidated at discount rates. blued cylinders on a nickel frame or grifone stamped upper receivers on unica 6 lowers, this was due to Italian bankruptcy laws requiring the company to continue operations after declaring insolvency without manufacturing any new inventory, while liquidating all existing inventory and assets. Late model Unica 6's and Grifones are sometimes seen with mismatched parts, e.g. The Mateba Autorevolver and Grifone were produced in 2 finishes:Įarly models of the Unica 6 Autorevolver did not include a mounting point at the front of the frame forward of the trigger guard, and instead had a simple bevel. This chambering places the Mateba in comparison to firearms like the Wildey pistol chambered in. The inclusion of the 454 Casull chambering makes the gun one of, if not the, most powerful semi-automatic handgun ever produced. This unique action makes this revolver a semi automatic weapon, making it one of the very few semi automatic revolver designs, another notable design being the Webley–Fosbery Self-Cocking Automatic Revolver. The rearward motion of the upper assembly cocks the hammer, and the cylinder is rotated on the forward stroke. The gun's entire upper assembly (barrel, cylinder and frame) are mounted on rails on the lower frame, which houses the trigger, hammer, and grip, and recoils 1/2 of an inch, or 12.7mm, on firing. This lowers the bore axis (line of the barrel) which directs the recoil in line with the shooter's hand thereby reducing the twisting motion or muzzle flip of normal revolvers. The barrel is aligned with the bottom of the cylinder instead of the top. The Mateba Autorevolver's barrel alignment is different from most other revolvers. The Mateba Model 6 uses the recoil from firing to rotate the cylinder and cock the hammer, unlike conventional revolvers, which depend on the user physically pulling the trigger and/or cocking the hammer to actuate the weapon's mechanism of operation. Patent 4,712,466 which details the operation of the weapon. Inventor Emilio Ghisoni (1937–2008), who was also famous for later designing the Chiappa Rhino, is listed as the owner of U.S. It was developed by Mateba, based in Pavia, Italy. The Mateba Model 6 Unica (often known simply as the Mateba or the Mateba Autorevolver) is a recoil operated semi-automatic revolver, one of only a few of this type ever produced. Arms (Macchine Termo-Balistiche), via Villa Serafina, 2/B. I'll try to come back later and link the video of Bob Munden doing long range magic with a tiny little gun.MA.TE.BA. in many cases, sacrificing barrel length for improved ergonomics is a sound choice. This might be a solid design, much like there is a reason bullpups have not gained universal use. What you lose from a short barrel you may well gain back from placing the recoil along a lower line, and providing an improved sight radius.
Now I've never operated this particular machine, the Mateba-whatever-the-heck, but from a theoretical standpoint, it's not a bad design. I don't have time, at this moment, on my phone, to track it down, but bob munden did some neat tricks with a Saturday night special out to like 200 yards, if memory serves. They don't point as well, and have shorter sight radii, and therefore are way harder to shoot, so most people never actually encounter the limitations of the gun, because they have not overcome their own limitations in using it. Which is not to say that snubby's are as accurate as long barrels, but IS to say that the typical downfall of snubby's is operator-driven and not inherent to the design. I have no idea why I presented all of that in question form. What if I told you that, in many cases, the downfall of short barreled revolvers is not their inherent accuracy, or lack of it, but the short sight radius? What if I told you people (well, one that I know of, presumably more) have made 200 yard shots on dinner plates with a Saturday night special? What if I told you that this gun has a much longer sight radius than most snubby revolvers, making it substantially easier to shoot precisely?
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