Volcanic Pistol

The  is a weapon featured in Red Dead Redemption.

Description
It was largely outdated by 1911. The pistol is inexpensive and considered a last resort or a tool of immediate personal protection. The Volcanic Pistol uses a lever-action mechanism to chamber cartridges, making it the only pistol that does not fire semi-automatically.

The uses Pistol Ammo.

Single Player

 * The Volcanic Pistol is sold at the Gunsmith in Armadillo.
 * It can be also obtained for free by beating the Twin Rocks gang hideout.

Undead Nightmare

 * The player can obtain it by saving Twin Rocks from a zombie outbreak.
 * Certain survivors use this weapon, just kill them and take it.

Multiplayer

 * The is unlocked upon reaching rank 5.

Combat

 * The Volcanic Pistol, although relatively obsolete compared to larger-caliber revolvers and automatic pistols, can still be used to effectively dispatch enemies. This weapon is one of the first obtained by John Marston.
 * The weapon in multiplayer is capable of quick kills and can kill a player with one headshot, unlike many other pistols and revolvers which would require 2 or 3.
 * It may be hard to utilize the Volcanic to its fullest potential due to the fact that the weapon uses Pistol Ammo, which, at the beginning of the game, is rare and expensive. By the time ammo is readily available, the Volcanic Pistol is obsolete because of the presence of better weapons that use pistol ammo. This, along with the fact that the gun fires atrociously slow in multiplayer, makes the weapon considered second-rate by many players.

Trivia

 * The Volcanic Pistol and Rifle, manufactured between 1852 and 1855, were predecessors of the Winchester Repeater rifle. Very few were ever made and by 1911 they would have been rare collectors' items, as well as completely obsolete (the Volcanic was a poor weapon even for its day). This may explain why the Volcanic Pistol is featured on the emblem to the Exquisite Taste Achievement/Trophy, which requires players to buy a rare weapon.
 * The real-life Volcanic fired a unique and very feeble form of caseless ammunition called a "Rocket Ball."
 * In-game, the Volcanic Pistol fires like a Double-action Revolver rather than a lever gun. This is evident in the cutscene for The Gunslinger's Tragedy.
 * In an ad in the 1914 edition of the newspaper, the gunsmith in Armadillo is more or less wishing for people to buy the out-dated weapons, possibly to make space for more modern ones.
 * It is very strange that the gun has greater power than the Cattleman Revolver, seeing as its weak "Rocket Ball" ammunition would be greatly weaker than even the Cattleman's 32-20 WCF ammo, though this is most likely so it can be better than the default handgun in some way.

Achievements/Trophies
The can be used to unlock the following achievements.