A wheellock mechanism is a wheel that creates a spark to ignite the gunpowder.
You can see the wheel on the right side of the weapon just below the dog (the arm that holds the pyrite). You wind it up and upon release it moves the dog to create a spark.
It has nothing to do with the rotating cylinder of a revolver.
Nitpicking here but this only has barrels, no separate cylinder. But you’re absolutely right, this looks like it could be a seven barrel volley gun. It doesn’t look like the barrel cluster can rotate like the Nock rotary barrel flintlock, and even rotating the barrel cluster wouldn’t solve firing the center barrel. So I think you’re right, it probably fires all 7 barrels at once.
It doesn’t look like it has a revolving cylinder and pre-made ammo cartridges didn’t exist yet.
Did it shoot all 7 bullets at the same time?💥
It’s more like a hand cannon than a pistol.
The description says “pistol with seven channel barrel and wheel lock action”.
That may mean it was actually rotating…?
A wheellock mechanism is a wheel that creates a spark to ignite the gunpowder.
You can see the wheel on the right side of the weapon just below the dog (the arm that holds the pyrite). You wind it up and upon release it moves the dog to create a spark.
It has nothing to do with the rotating cylinder of a revolver.
Nitpicking here but this only has barrels, no separate cylinder. But you’re absolutely right, this looks like it could be a seven barrel volley gun. It doesn’t look like the barrel cluster can rotate like the Nock rotary barrel flintlock, and even rotating the barrel cluster wouldn’t solve firing the center barrel. So I think you’re right, it probably fires all 7 barrels at once.
Sawed-off predecessor?