9 Barrel Wheellock

[flytrout]

]Link[/url] I found this photo of a 9 barrel Wheellock. Does anyone have info. :wink:

 

[galamb]

Looks like a modern fantasy gun, built because someone could do it.

To me it looks like modern barrel steel and that certainly appears to be a "Jaeger style" rear sight sold by TOTW.

 

[Wes/Tex]

appears to be another view and the seller says it's Polish made??!!
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/21/29/b5/2129b5e058f236b96ff7d655cb00a488.jpg

 

[F.G. Ford]

Do you think it might be a little muzzle heavy?? :wink: As a wall gun, it would be very formidable with double or triple ball load pointed at a opponent. It would make for a very bad day!

It would certainly make your target quite holey!
It would also keep your neighbors cat out of the garden.
Fred

 

[brubincam]

how long would it take to clean it

 

[bpd303]

Or load it.

 

[hawkeye2]

"the seller says it's Polish made??!!"

Should that be a surprise? The Polish Army Museum in Warsaw has a very impressive collection of firearms from gones to hand made Sten Guns.

 

[Anders L]

I have seen similar at the Skokloster armoury in Sweden. Since you are not allowed to take photos there I don´t have anything to back it up with. But wheellock guns with many barrels do exist. :idunno:

 

[matt denison]

why in He11 have a sight on something like that?

:youcrazy:

 

[Carteret Kid]

I cant see anyone who could afford to have one made using it in combat.

 

[dyemaker]

I've seen this before in a museum site. So yes, I do believe it is Polish and old not modern made. It doe's however look incredibly clean. Maybe there is a reason. It makes one wonder.

 

[raszpla]

http://www.imnk.pl/gallerybox.php?dir=BB078

 

[dyemaker]

That is the one. Ahh, So it is Czech not Polish

 

[cynthialee]

Do all the barrels shoot at once?

 

[Joel/Calgary]

why in He11 have a sight on something like that?

Well, the barrels are rifled and the bores look pretty parallel, so maybe it has to get out there a ways before dispersion becomes useful. Did you ever see those multi-barrelled .22LR rifles meant for long-range goose gunning? They really needed to be aimed, not pointed.

Regards,
Joel

 

[cynthialee]

why in He11 have a sight on something like that?

Well, the barrels are rifled and the bores look pretty parallel, so maybe it has to get out there a ways before dispersion becomes useful. Did you ever see those multi-barrelled .22LR rifles meant for long-range goose gunning? They really needed to be aimed, not pointed.

Regards,
Joel

I have never heard of such a gun. If you have a picture link I'd love it if you'd PM it to me.

 

[MacRob46]

Given the many, many experimental guns made since the beginning of firearms technology, especially those which intended to allow the user multiple shots, this gun is certainly a genuine artifact. The museum site supports that. It appears to have just one lock and no mechanism to turn the barrels into battery so my belief is that all the barrels fired at once, although how that was accomplished is beyond me. Having to re-wind the Wheelock mechanism for multiple shots also makes me think that all barrels fired at once. Why there is a sight and why the barrels would be rifled is a complete mystery. Accuracy could not have been very good.

 

[Joel/Calgary]

why in He11 have a sight on something like that?

Well, the barrels are rifled and the bores look pretty parallel, so maybe it has to get out there a ways before dispersion becomes useful. Did you ever see those multi-barrelled .22LR rifles meant for long-range goose gunning? They really needed to be aimed, not pointed.

Regards,
Joel

I have never heard of such a gun. If you have a picture link I'd love it if you'd PM it to me.

Sorry, it's been a long while since I've even seen any mention of them and some quick websearches came up empty. I don't think they were ever common, and I suspect they may have been prohibited by the migratory-waterfowl treaties. One that I can recall pictures of was a 7-barrel on a rolling-block action; I have a faint recollection that the extractor may have been a 7-hole plate cammed straight back when the block was opened, sort of like a revolver. Conventional rolling-block rifle stock and .22-rifle-length barrels. [Muzzleloading content] I can recall seeing similar small-bore muzzleloading volley guns - or at least one - probably for similar purposes.

Regards,
Joel

 

[john wilson]

Not nice to leave people hanging

http://www.naturabuy.fr/CARABINE-REMINGTON-PIEPER-7-COUPS-1875-Calibre-32-RF-BE-XIXe-item-1550969.html

Remington rolling block volley gun in .32 rf,hopefully Zonie won't mind the indiscretion as it's an interesting piece of firearms history.

 

[wulf]

why in He11 have a sight on something like that?


Where is the front sight....?