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Originally Posted by jyl
The barrel could be in line with the bottom of the cylinder, which would allow a radically lower bore axis. Tricky for iron sights but not for optical. If revolvers were developed today without history and habit as constraints, I think they'd look pretty different.
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It's been tried. Chiappa Arms is the latest. They get kind of clumsy. That, and the lower bore axis accentuates recoil, and not many folks like that. The "tent pole" item that drives the height of the revolver is the cylinder. Might as well put the barrel at the top of that. Just makes it a lot easier.
