Quote Originally Posted by oneseven View Post
I'd love a le mat. Take a look at the review of the repro one in this month's gun mart. Fantastic concept having a cylinder revolving round a shotgun barrel and I'm sure it would have been very useful when it came to the final scrap!
There's an original one on display at the Civil War Museum here. (Used to be the Confederate Museum, till they decided to become politically correct. And it hasn't helped attendance. )

They were big, heavy monsters, though. Pretty much restricted to the cavalry: too heavy for an infantry or artilleryman to lug around on his hip.

Jim