Mini-master

Several guns are "shorter", even my glock 27 with the Canadian legal length barrel, but the minimaster is "smaller", much much smaller.
 
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This image should help give an impression of the size too...

(Its an NAA Earl, but pretty much the same thing)

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See, aren't those little guns great. You would think some dealer would be jumping at this chance to be the only one selling these gun in Canada.
 
North American Arms is about to release their next generation revolver. Their new project, "The Sidewinder" will be a single-action mini-revolver built on our magnum frame, whose cylinder is mounted on a side-releasing crane, just like the overwhelming majority of all the other revolvers out there. This is our attempt to join the fold of “convenient loaders”.

We understand the appeal of having the cylinder remain affixed to the gun and so have responded with this attempt to mimic some of the “performance” of The dearly-departed (but not forgotten) Ranger.

At this point, I can’t tell you how it will be priced, because I still don’t yet know what it will cost, but The Sidewinder should be slightly less than The Ranger. There are still some engineering tweaks that we expect to perform but we remain committed to showing a piece(s) at the NRA Product Expo in St. Louis in April.

I’m happy to confirm that, at the point we feel ready to produce the piece, we will offer an Early-Bird Special.

This is a great time for Dealers to get in on this new revolver that is about to be released to the public.
 
Yeah Gary how did that call go? I really want one now. A side load is way better than pulling the cylinder out. Then a few speed loads would be needed.
 
Forward thinker said:
North American Arms is about to release their next generation revolver. Their new project, "The Sidewinder" will be a single-action mini-revolver built on our magnum frame, whose cylinder is mounted on a side-releasing crane, just like the overwhelming majority of all the other revolvers out there. This is our attempt to join the fold of “convenient loaders”.

We understand the appeal of having the cylinder remain affixed to the gun and so have responded with this attempt to mimic some of the “performance” of The dearly-departed (but not forgotten) Ranger.

At this point, I can’t tell you how it will be priced, because I still don’t yet know what it will cost, but The Sidewinder should be slightly less than The Ranger. There are still some engineering tweaks that we expect to perform but we remain committed to showing a piece(s) at the NRA Product Expo in St. Louis in April.

I’m happy to confirm that, at the point we feel ready to produce the piece, we will offer an Early-Bird Special.

This is a great time for Dealers to get in on this new revolver that is about to be released to the public.
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Looking forward to it!

It's hard packing too much into such a tiny handgun. Very interested in seeing how you accomplish it.
 
To be honest the unit commitment and the price per unit didn't really excite us to much...still on our plate but we are working on a few other exciting things thats eating up our time at the moment.
 
That's what other dealers said the first time around. So I put up 50% of the required 50pc buy in, of my own cash to make it happen, the initial 50 opening order were sold before they landed.
 
North American Arms has put out a news release on their new Sidewinder revolver. News is after pictures.

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For your amusement, I’m happy to post a few pictures of a prototype of the Sidewinder that we’ll be showing at next week’s NRA Show and Product Expo. You can find them at www.NorthAmericanArms.com/Sidewinder. Before you go there, I invite you to read the following. I want to share some additional information about where we are and where we’re going with this product.

Perhaps the first thing you’ll notice from the pictures is the added thickness to the bottomstrap. One of the engineering idiosyncrasies of this design is that the pivot point for the crane had to be located at a point below what was available on the standard frame for the cylinder to cleanly clear the pocket, hence the offset. While some of the contouring may change before we commit to a production model, that general feature will not.

Another cosmetic change that we will make prior to production is that the radius on the front end of the barrel and the slight offset of the rib above the barrel will mimic the design of our existing models. Similarly, so will the size (diameter) and knurled texture of the cylinder pin.

I’m hopeful that the overall barrel length of the initial model will be somewhat shorter than that of the prototype(s). It is easy to make the length larger and I’m certain we’ll offer this model with several barrel length choices.

What’s not clear from these photos is that a screw entering the frame from the frontstrap secures the cylinder crane. As the cylinder will be permanently fixed to the crane, the entire assembly will need to be replaced if/when the user wants to install an LR cylinder, which we will offer. I don’t expect we’ll offer this model on the LR frame.

Some of you will notice that this model sports a pair of cylinder shields attached to each side of the frame. And some will notice the notches cut into the side of the left-side shield. The different width of these two notches corresponds to similar-sized notches on the cylinder; the narrow notch is the Safety Slot, while the larger notch is a window onto the rim of the cartridge. If/when the notches on the cylinder align with those on the shield (which is NOT the condition illustrated in the photo), then the safety slot is immediately underneath the hammer. This should be a helpful indicator when users attempts to set the hammer in the safety slot for safe carry. My clumsy description of the process notwithstanding, I assure you that the use of this new feature is infinitely more intuitive once you have a piece in hand.

I’m very confident that, unlike the dearly-departed Ranger, this model will be part of our stable for a long time, and that we will be able to offer it at a price less than the Ranger. In terms of availability, when one considers the fact that we are already running our manufacturing facility at full-steam+++, coupled with the early demand that most new models generate, we expect that this piece will be difficult to acquire for “several” months. We apologize in advance to those customers who may become frustrated. You may want to take advantage of an Early Bird purchase opportunity, which I expect we’ll announce in a couple of months.
 
From the news release above the Sidewinder should be available to the public any day now. Might have to change the thread name to "Sidewinder" or more generic for all The NAA products since they are so rare up in Canada. I hope some dealer out there thinks this gun is worth bringing up here as it sold well last time and the people on this post seam to like it too.
 
Forward thinker said:
From the news release above the Sidewinder should be available to the public any day now. Might have to change the thread name to "Sidewinder" or more generic for all The NAA products since they are so rare up in Canada. I hope some dealer out there thinks this gun is worth bringing up here as it sold well last time and the people on this post seam to like it too.
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Hello Wanstalls! So did the NAA inquiry die on the vine, or still in motion? The Sidewinder looks sweet!! Come on guys, bring in a batch and you'll see how fast they fly off the shelves. Only hard part is deciding on a model, they are all such cool little packages.
 
Maybe instead of Wanstalls doing a 1911 poll they should be doing a NAA poll on interest or model. If anything it would bring in more people to their shop.
 
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