17th barrel flintlock!?

[hawkeye1755]

Is this real? :shocked2:
Hand-held multi-barreled gun dating from 1755. It represents an attempt to produce a more powerful firearm. It had to be rested on a wall before it could be fired

How does it work?Does it? :hmm:
Fire all barrels at the some time? :youcrazy:
Which cal.?Perhaps .995 some of Claypipes BIG BALLS :rotf:
:hatsoff:

 

[Rebel]

Hey, you found that back up gun Dmills the hog hunter was looking for. :rotf:

 

[bob1961]

if all barrels went off the same time....imagine the recoil :rotf: ............bob

 

[Pork Chop]

Don't you guys recognize it? It was used by the cyborg that came back in Terminator 96 - the precolonial termination. :rotf: :blah:

 

[Halftail]

That's kinda Nice!Where Could a fella get one? :thumbsup:

 

[TN.Frank]

Looks like something you'd use on board a ship as a boarding gun. The way it looks in front of the trigger you'd probably hang it onto the rail of your ship before you fire it at the other ship, that'd let your ships rail take all the recoil. Bet it'd be hard to see after the first volly from all of the smoke.

 

[Toomuch_36]

Looks like something you'd use on board a ship as a boarding gun. The way it looks in front of the trigger you'd probably hang it onto the rail of your ship before you fire it at the other ship, that'd let your ships rail take all the recoil. Bet it'd be hard to see after the first volly from all of the smoke.

First one of those I've ever seen. :v
From the looks of it I believe that all barrels would fire at once, and you would have to hang it over the ship's rail or the recoil would knock you over the far rail on the other side of the ship. :shocked2:
One shot would probably be all you would get because once the smoke cleared and you got reloaded the enemy boarders would have retreated or you would have been taken. :rotf:

Toomuch
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Shoot Flint

 

[davy]

Well ... ya do have to admit it would be a little rough handling it on horseback robbin a stagecoach! :hmm: :rotf:

Looks like ya would need about 2lbs of lead balls and a powder horn fulla 2f ta reload it too!

Looks like the new model too .. has two barrels added to the bottom ... evidently 17 barrels wuz not enuff firepower! Needed a backup I suppose!

davy :thumbsup: :grin:

 

[Wes/Tex]

Ooh, cool piece of ordnance ye have there. Looks like No.#1 goes off by flint and the rest go off by "chain-fire"!!!!!!!1 :blah: :rotf:

 

[Zonie]

"...It had to be rested on a wall before it could be fired..."
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It had to be rested? Hell, after toting that thing up to hang it on the rail, I'd have to be rested! :grin: :rotf:

I don't know if the gun in the photo is real or not, but multiple barreled guns have been used throughout the history of the gun.

In his book "THE GUN AND ITS DEVELOPMENT " W.W. Greener shows several drawings of multiple barreled guns, morters and cannons with Matchlock and Flintlock ignition.

On page 95, he presents a nice drawing of J. Nock's 1807 "Seven barreled Carbine" a single Flintlock shoulder gun.

Says the author:

"Many people may be suprised that so recently as 1807 J. Nock, the renowned London gun-maker, made for the British Government a shoulder gun of the same principle as the multi-barrelled cannon of the fourteenth century. It consisted as shown, of seven round barrels brazed together, and fired from the same touch-hole, all barrels being fired, practically simultaneously, but actually in very rapid succession. The bore is 20 (balls to the pound), length of barrels 28 inches : the weapon is very heavy and unwieldy. It is fitted with sights and top-ribs, but the barrels are not rifled."

This gun had 6 barrels of equal length, positioned around one center barrel.

Wheew...Dogie! That's equal to a 2.85 bore gun.
Now where's that guy who wants to shoot that 4 bore? :rotf: :grin:

 

[davy]

W'all I reckon I seen it all now! :shocked2:

Davy

 

[Brasilikilt]

While it's very impressive to look at, it seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth.

How the heck do you aim the bottom barrels? Seems like if you hung it on the rails of your ship those bottom barrels would shoot into the deck or the side of the enemy's ship.

I like the idea of an over/under swivel gun a lot better.
Or you can mount an 8 or 12 pounder on a revolving platform to act more like a turret on a modern battleship. The masts of your own ship might get in the way, but it's still better than being restricted to broadsides.

Ahhh........

 

[pipascus]

The two bottom barrels are for the Leprechauns!

 

[jim gray]

It looks like the guy who desiggned that gun wasn't going to be the one who carried it.

I wonder how long it would take for all of the barrles to fire. You wouldn't have to worry about reloading or where the bottom barrels would shoot. By the time they fired, the battle would probably be over, and they'd probably be aiming a bit higher anyway.

 

[flashpanner]

"Well I want to know, in all of the confusion and chaos, did I shoot 16 or 17 rounds? Then the question is, do ya feel lucky PUNK? Well? Do ya??? :rotf:

 

[Story]

Or 'anti-boarding gun'. Good for clearing packed decks or narrow hallways. Probably a ripple-fire.

 

[davy]

The two bottom barrels are for the Leprechauns!

Or for thim ridin Shetland ponies! :shocked2: :hatsoff:

Davy