Volcanic Pistol

The Volcanic Pistol is a weapon featured in Red Dead Redemption.

Description

The Volcanic Pistol uses a lever-action mechanism to chamber cartridges.

The player can obtain it by saving Twin Rocks from a zombie outbreak.
- The player can also obtain in a "I Don't Feel Too Good Mister" Random Encounter in which it can be obtained by hogtying the victim before he/she turns Undead.

The Volcanic Pistol is unlocked into the player's regular inventory upon reaching rank 5.
- The "Volcanic Killer" weapon challenges are unlocked at the same level. Completion of these challenges turns the weapon golden for the player.
It can also be obtained by killing another player who has the weapon equipped.

The Volcanic Pistol, although relatively obsolete compared to larger-caliber revolvers and automatic pistols, can still be used to effectively dispatch enemies.
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 By the time ammo is readily available, the Volcanic Pistol is obsolete because of the presence of better weapons that use pistol ammo.

Very few were ever made in real life, in the 1850s, and by 1911 they would have been rare collectors' items as well as completely obsolete. 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.
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 1911 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.
Although in the game the gun has greater power than the Cattleman Revolver, the reverse would be true in real life due to differences in ammunition; the Volcanic's so-called "Rocket Balls" were notably feeble.
This weapon is used by Vincente de Santa in some missions. He is the only member of the Mexican Army who uses this weapon.
It is not wise to use this weapon early in the game, because pistol ammo is very expensive.