The Knottso Ultimate Carry Revolver

Hot on the heels of one of SHOT Show 2024’s most popular introductions, the Knottso Ultimate Carry (KUC) from Knottso Fine Arms seeks to provide consumers with a unique alternative for self defense.

“We saw what all the other guys were doing in the snub revolver market” said company president Steve Knottso, “and it was impressive.”

“They’ve made the classic snub ten-times better, with thoughtful changes that improved the shooter’s ability to make accurate hits under pressure,” said Knottso.

Dreamers

Inspired by their example, Knottso’s goal with the KUC was similar, yet different. Instead of building on a classic, proven design, the Knottso team started with a clean sheet of paper for their self defense powerhouse. “We didn’t want to be restricted by the limits of practicality and mechanical efficiency, so we encouraged our team to dream big,” said Knottso.

Exactly how big, you might ask?

“Knottso much,” said Knottso.

Design

While the KUC is a revolver, it incorporates design philosophies from the most modern semiautomatic pistols. “A careful study of social media ‘influencer’ channels indicates that precision fire is not the way to go in 2024,” said Knottso. “Instead, our engineers discovered these experts were nearly unanimous in their endorsement of volume over accuracy, and style over function.”

It was this understanding which heavily influenced the design of the KUC. A priority was placed on capacity and the ability to send lots of lead downrange quickly. This drove unique design requirements, such as the twin, over-under barrels of the KUC, and its patented, “capacious repeating annular positioning” (CRAP) cylinder, which presents two rings of chambers to the pair of stacked barrels with each trigger jerk.

A trained shooter can send 21 rounds of CRAP ammo downrange as quickly as the hammer and folding trigger can be worked.¹ Several writers at The Rumors About Guns (The RAG) remarked that the single action mechanism was fun to work, and made them feel like their favorite western movie heroes. “It’s like I’m Duke Eastwood, or Alec Baldwin, or something,” said one of the skinny-jeaned hipsters with a bushy beard and a Stacatto hat.

Sights

The Knottso Fine Arms (KFA) design team took note of the high-visibility sights featured on the best of the modern snubs, and went a different direction on the KUC. They felt that high-profile sights could possibly catch on the Blackhawk SERPA and Uncle Mikes Sidekick holsters preferred by Tik Tok viewers, so they went with a small bead up front. “It’s just like the high-visibility sights used by our competitors,”said Knottso, “except you can’t see it.”

Not that sights are important, anyhow. “When you’re laying down suppressive fire, you don’t have time to get a sight picture,” explained KFA’s lead engineer, whose extensive resume includes projects at several other industry companies, like the Remington R51 and Hi Point’s experimental subcompact in .45-70.

Looking Ahead

The KFA team tells RevolverGuy that the KUC was designed with growth potential in mind. While the launch version of the KUC is a basic model, future editions will feature such necessities as a miniature red dot sight, a light rail, and (for the Generation Z shooters) a mounting point for a reverse-facing, Go Pro camera.

A modular version is also planned for later in the year, which will allow Sig P320 owners to install their Sig trigger chassis into the KUC. In preparation for the launch, Sig Sauer attorneys have already prepared a statement for release, which insists the holster is responsible for all the uncommanded discharges.

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Endnotes

1.) The folding trigger was the brainchild of a young “influencer” who felt it would make the three-pound, six-inch-barreled, full-gripped piece of steel and wood more suitable for concealed carry. “Plus, it makes this, like, whiplash sound when you deploy it, which looks cool on selfie videos!”

2.) More historically-minded readers may recognize the firearm in the lead image as a Lefaucheux-style revolver. From A.B Zhuk’s, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Handguns:

. . . The chambers of this gun are arranged in two concentric rings . . . there are fourteen chambers in the outer rank and only seven inside them. The extraordinary firing mechanism rotates the cylinder through a fourteenth of a turn to fire a cartridge from the outer group. It then rotates through one twenty-eigth of a turn and fires a cartridge from the inner ring; then turns through another twenty-eigth and fires the second outer round. The next movement of a fourteenth of a turn revolved the first (outer) chamber in the next group of three under the hammer.

Credits

1.) Featured image from Morphy Auctions

2.) Endnote 2.) images and text from:  Zhuk, A.B., The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Handguns, Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Limited, London, 1995, Page 40.;

3.)  Creative inspiration from RevolverGuy Steve Tracy, but don’t blame him for the twisted humor, which is all Mike’s–100% Boomer, that guy.