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Tools and Uses => Firearms and Accessories => Topic started by: whynow? on April 27, 2017, 02:17:48 PM

Title: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: whynow? on April 27, 2017, 02:17:48 PM

Don't know if this was posted before.  Accessory to rapid fire, burn ammo and heat up your barrel.   Have to hand it to American ingenuity though; where there's a will there's a way.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jif4Wo0LDX8

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: oldfart on April 27, 2017, 03:28:54 PM

Around 30 years ago we used to go shoot at a rubbish dump on Maui.
One of the guys had that trigger crank.
But it was too much work, so he connected an electric shoe shine motor to it. :thumbsup:

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: Tom_G on April 27, 2017, 04:34:38 PM

I know I'm a purist, but it has always bothered me when someone puts a crank on an existing contemporary firearm and calls it a Gatling gun. There are a number of defining characteristics of a Gatling gun, none of which involve starting with a recoil-operated semi-automatic single-barrel firearm.

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: robtmc on April 27, 2017, 06:23:10 PM

Yeah, the Gatling modern derivatives gain enormous cooling benefit from the rotating barrels.  An AR with a crank gets nothing but a ruined barrel.  Bogus to compare the two.

I was trained on a rather unique alternative to the Gatling style, where a cylinder rotated and the twin barrels stayed fixed.  Barrels fired same time.  Balky SOB, but put out rounds about as fast as the 20mm M61.

You burned out rifled inserts in the cylinder, rather than the barrels, which were smoothbore.

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: ren on April 27, 2017, 07:26:00 PM

dunno why but I cringe when I hear Miculek's coyote call of joy
much like this guy's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZu15iJE94

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: whynow? on April 27, 2017, 08:45:00 PM

New Magnificent 7 Gatling gun scene.   I still prefer the original Magnificent 7 and got the DVD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W54Btw8GsUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulmgTcGLZw

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: Tom_G on April 28, 2017, 09:51:14 AM

Not to get even farther off topic, but I think that the Gatling gun scene in The Last Samurai (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCtuZ-fDL2E) really put their effectiveness in perspective.

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: aieahound on April 28, 2017, 10:23:08 AM

Whatever happened to the good ole 10/22 "Gatling" gun ?

Title: Re: AR-15 Gatling gun
Post by: Tom_G on April 28, 2017, 05:00:57 PM

Really, really, really want to make one of these (http://www.gatlingguns.net/).