Saturday, February 15, 2014

But Does It Come With Its Own Reloading Plant?

Colt M1877 Bulldog Gatling gun, in .45-70.


J&G Sales has one for the budget price of $47,995.

Yep, imagine stoking that thing with black-powder cartridges and then cranking it up. At 800 rounds/min, the brass'll pile up pretty fast.

At $1.50 to $2/round or better, cranking that gun'll get pretty pricey pretty fast. Unless you happen to be Tom Perkins, in which case, you might want to buy a bunch of those guns and mount them strategically around your houses.
on or about

3 comments:

  1. Deadstick2/15/2014 8:47 PM

    Go up against killer prairie dogs, that thing could save your life.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Mule Breath2/16/2014 12:07 AM

    45-70? I doubt that little tripod would do much to keep it upright unless it was mounted pretty solid.

    ReplyDelete
  3. BadTux2/16/2014 2:39 AM

    If firing the original powder load, .45-70 was a fairly mild cartridge. Had a ton of drop though, had an effective range of a few hundred yards max. Not really a problem with a Gatling gun, which is an area denial weapon more reliant on volume of lead than on accuracy. But yeah, I wouldn't suggest trying to shoot rounds with a full load of modern smokeless powder out of the thing!

    ReplyDelete

House Rules #1, #2 and #6 apply to all comments. Rule #3 also applies to political comments.

In short, don't be a jackass. THIS MEANS YOU!
If you never see your comments posted, see Rule #7.

All comments must be on point and address either the points raised in the blog post or points raised by commenters in response.
Any comments that drift off onto other topics are subject to deletion.

(Please don't feed the trolls.)

中國詞不評論，冒抹除的風險。僅英語。

COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.