Police billy club for model 15 revolver

[Buford57]

It is clear to me that the wooden part is a handle for when you use the revolver's butt to nail up wanted posters.

 

[F75gunslinger]

Found a couple more mentions of it.

Shooting The Billy Club Revolver | Range365

Strange Guns: S&W Model 10 Police Revolver with Billy-Club Extension | Range365

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Looks like a pretty nice billy, as long as you don't do something stupid like putting it on a gun.

 

[jmace57]

What could possibly go wrong?

I think we should give Gene some sort of award for the strangest first post ever!

 

[elm_creek_smith]

The way it sat on the 4 inch barrel, it looks like it was designed for a 6 inch barrel. I'd like to see someone try it on a 6 inch Heavy Duty! Of course, it's still a bad idea.

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[Warren Sear]

It is clear to me that the wooden part is a handle for when you use the revolver's butt to nail up wanted posters.

We have a winner!

 

[snuffy51]

Maybe a super powered horse wormer. Anyway, welcome to the forum.

 

[Ross3914]

I like the sight channel.

Companies make stupid products all the time. The fact that they are rare indicates evolution still works.

 

[Jtown]

If it were rifled wouldn't the rifling have to line up with the gun barrel rifling? Just curious.
Walt

 

[gene ortman]

I can't tell by looking at the photos...is the billy club's bore rifled?

It's pretty interesting. Only possible practical use I could see for it would be in some sort of riot or melee situation. Not too sure about that, either, because if you started hitting people it might tend to knock the barrel or front sight out of alignment.

It doesn't look like something that saw a huge production run, no matter who made it. More questions about it than answers.

Looking through the "bore" I see no rifling at all. Smooth as a baby's bottom!

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Looks like most of the OP's research work has been done for him! Excellent responses with history, inventor, additional sources of information, even some practical testing done.

 

[deanodog]

Will it handle +P?

 

[Jingles]

While I admit it's pretty darned cool it looks like something a couple of LEOs thought up after a long, hard night of heavy drinking.

 

[El Biblioitecario]

Ignoring whether this device is practical--which requires considerable ignoring--I would be concerned that wrapping a miscreant hard enough to get their attention would put excessive strain both on the attachment point and where the barrel is screwed into the frame. Before I purchased one, I would want the manufacturer to guarantee a minimum number of bludgeonings before product failure or damage to the revolver.

 

[smoothshooter]

I can't tell by looking at the photos...is the billy club's bore rifled?

It's pretty interesting. Only possible practical use I could see for it would be in some sort of riot or melee situation. Not too sure about that, either, because if you started hitting people it might tend to knock the barrel or front sight out of alignment.

It doesn't look like something that saw a huge production run, no matter who made it. More questions about it than answers.

Looks to me like it could be used to conceal muzzle flash when shooting at night, although there would still be some flash around the barrel/cylinder gap.
Looks worse than worthless as an impact weapon to me.
Would probably bend the pistol barrel with even a moderately powered whack on somebody with the club.

 

[OFT II]

While I admit it's pretty darned cool it looks like something a couple of LEOs thought up after a long, hard night of heavy drinking.

Maybe during a hard night of heavy drinking.

 

[one eye joe]

I'd think if the idea was for it to have been used as a billy club while attached to the revolver barrel, it would probably have resulted in a bent barrel the first time it was used. Something that unusual has to be rare and worthy of more investigation. Searching patent records of that time might provide more information. I am certain the tube down the middle would not have been rifled and that the device was not intended to be a suppressor. In 1919 silencers (suppressors) were entirely legal for anyone to have and use but they really didn't work very well on revolvers.

I MUST AGREE WITH DWalt's STATEMENT IN IT ITS ENTIRETY......

PUTTING TOGETHER A PACKAGE OF VERIFIABLE DOCUMENTATION TO ACCOMPANY THIS OBVIOUSLY RARE ITEM, WOULD BE KEY IN ATTRACTING A COLLECTOR, AND/OR REALIZING ITS MAXIMUM VALUE AT AUCTION.........

 

[max503]

OP - What kind of blue tool holders/organizers do you have on your loading bench?

 

[chiefdave]

Had television been around back then it would have made an interesting infomercial.

 

[jw mathews]

Interesting device, but highly impractical imo. Also, neither the original post nor Mr. Supica's video described HOW the club attaches to the barrel . Is it made like a collet to clamp around the barrel? Is there a relief cut for the front sight? I don't suppose the muzzle would be threaded to attach the club, as that would add much more cost to attach the device.

And one wonders if that club was also made for Colt DA revolvers. Their ejector rods ere not protected like S&W's and can often be found slightly bent, even if never used to hit an offender on the head!