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Post by "DoubleAction" on Apr 19, 2004 17:45:00 GMT -5
This highest member rating for this forum has Five Stars, begining with the total of 1,000. message postings. This is not unreasonable, since it's possible to accumulate that many within a month, without being rude, silly, or senseless ;D.
Be the first to give a run down on the Dardick Open Chamber Handgun, Model 1500, it's method of ammunition feed, it's designer, and you will have the Fifth Star, with the new rating.
Copy righted materials are not allowed, and Moderators are exempt.
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Post by klmhq on Apr 19, 2004 20:17:35 GMT -5
Well, I don't know much about guns, but I do know how to search the Internet. The Dardic Model 1500 had a 6" barrel and a 15 round magazine. One of several unique features was that there was also a revolving cylinder. The magazine would feed 'trounds' (get to that in a minute) in one of the chambers of the cylinder. The cylinder would rotate, bringing the tround into firing position, upon cocking the weapon or pulling the trigger. After the round fired, the cylinder would be rotated (trigger or cocking) and the tround would fall out. The tround was named such because of it's unique cross section. Not a cylinder, but a triangle. Test firing the gun, David Dardic used .38 special ammo, but encased them in a plastic sleeve that would give them the triangular cross-section. From what I gather, the magazine mounted on top of the weapon (or at a point that would allow gravity feed of the ammo). The tround was held in place by a side strap while the cylider rotated and the frame of the weapon in firing position. The handgun was developed in the late 50s and David Dardic went out of business (big surprise) in the early 60s. * material from David Tomlinson -- www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/Archives/Digests/v01n800-899/v01n851.txt |
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Post by winchester on Apr 19, 2004 20:18:08 GMT -5
The Dardick, Model 1500 had a 6” barrel and held 15 “trounds”. The designer was David Dardick.
His design had a magazine like a semi-auto, and a cylinder much like a revolver. The cylinder had v-shaped gouges on the outside of the cylinder.
The gun shot “trounds” rather than a traditional cartridge. A tround was a 38 special cartridge inserted into a triangle shaped plastic sleeve that fit in the groove in the cylinder.
When the trigger was pulled or the hammer cocked, the cylinder rotated, the top round in the magazine would flop into the cylinder and be kept in place by a sideplate. Once in the cylinder the Dardick shot like any other revolver, except when the cylinder rotated again the spent tround would fall out an opening.
The gun was released in 1954 and went out of production sometime in the 1960s.
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Post by winchester on Apr 19, 2004 20:19:59 GMT -5
Looks like I got beat, looks like you had the same source as me. Isn't google great.
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Apr 19, 2004 20:31:15 GMT -5
You guys are just too close; Thanks for getting in on it. There was a one minute difference in your responses, so I'm giving it to each.
I once saw a man who had one of these pistols, complete with the trounds. It was a most unusual looking. Most of the research I do is in reference books, this one is listed in the 3rd Edition of "Pistols of the World", by Ian Hogg and John Weeks.
With your new member status comes new responsibilities. ;D
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