Indumil in Colombia was originally founded as a state workshop to repair military small arms. Its first complete production gun was the Cassidy, a licensed copy of Llama’s copy of the Smith & Wesson Model 10. This was developed by Llama for the .357 Magnum cartridge and retains that frame length, but Indumil only makes it in .38 Special because of legal precedents in the country. It is offered in three models, the regular Cassidy seen here, the larger Marshall (full sight rib and underdog, in 4″ or 5″ barrel length) and the compact Scorpio (round butt with a 2″ barrel).
Thanks to Javier Traba Pistolas for giving me access to these examples to film for you! You can find him on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/@TrabaPistolas/videos
So what is the overall quality of the Indumil firearms? The Cordova looks interesting for a basic 9mm semi-auto.
Scorpio is Latin so not strange to see in any romance language, Marshall is so associated with revolvers I can overlook its Franco-English stats, but I’m REALLY curious how they got Cassidy. Did they really go “There’s one internationally famous western figure associated with South America, let’s go with that” or did some Colombian figure have an Irish surname?
The Irish have been involved in Columbia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia%E2%80%93Ireland_relations
Butch Cassidy?
In Brazil, they have a (person) names like Wagner… and similar, very non-south american sounding.
Your point? I could see using ‘Wagner’ to market opera. The question was why ‘Cassidy’ to market a Colombian revolver. The fact a name occurs someplace as part of some foreign trickle does not mean it’ll help sales.
Point is somewhat, that it theoretically could be (most likely it is not) in folk lore maybe Cassidy started being a babys name in Colombia, due to the public (and unwise parents) temporarily infatuated with wild west movies.
Interesting info. I guess that’d be like if parents in the U.S. started naming babies what? ‘Villa’ after ol’ Pancho hisself? That is a trifle weird in both cases: naming babies after foreign bandits come heisting and shooting. (Sounds like something the palefaces in Minnesota might do.)
Kind of like tagging a product, knives say, with ‘Zorro’ in the (pre-replacement) U.S. It carries a recognizable image and conjures up tales from the movies.
PALEFACES? Racist much???
Are they stressed for .357 if the cylinder will accept the round?
I think the safest bet is to stay with .38 Special +P. Which is only about 15% below .357 in ME with equal bullet weights anyway.
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I’m a paleface myself, what are you getting excited over? ‘Viva la difference’ and all that. “A big part of living a worthwhile life is questioning your public school’s indoctrination.”– Thorsten Hadur. Try it sometime. You’ll thank me. You’ll thank yourself. You’ll thank the gods whose company you wind up walking in.
Part Ojibwa and Cherokee. People who make disparaging remarks based on skin color then talk down to people about being undereducated just proved my point. Bigot. Skin color should not be part of the conversation unless you are discussing evolution and melanin. I notice a large number of people make nasty remarks on line they would not dream of making in person. Keyboard Courage. I have worked with people from all cultures and walks of life. You should try it sometime rather than trying to talk down to strangers.
I had a buddy in high school. Over the years he ‘discovered’ he was part Jewish, then Sioux, lately part black. Me, I got stuck for life wearing these old genes.
Llama’s revolver safety patent… https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search?q=pn%3DES482947A1
Thank you! I was just about to ask, how this unique automatic safety works. Unfortunately the side plate remained, the lockwork was not shown.
This is slightly changed “Hopkins &Allen Triple lock”…
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/04/5f/de/c3692f3e68d327/US829082.pdf
Hammer rotates on an eccentric core which extends to the trigger connection through a bar… When trigger squezzed… That bar lowers the hammer to hit the separate firing pin and when trigger released… The bar rises the hammer out of reach of the firing pin…
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Also thank you too, for the earlier patent covering the original(?) idea.