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Title: Whatsit?
Post by: Marnoot on December 07, 2009, 05:00:48 PM
Found these two pictures on my interweb travels. Anyone know what it is? Kind of like a pepperbox, but a rifle instead of a pistol.

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi228.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fee34%2Fmarnoot%2Fmultirifle.jpg&hash=e6deb2463967066c731f2857cf0db44709692238)
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi228.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fee34%2Fmarnoot%2Fmultirifle2.jpg&hash=8f9374adde8494d502efd3e301028973492b906d)
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: lupinus on December 07, 2009, 05:15:16 PM
it's a gun

with nine barrels
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: Nick1911 on December 07, 2009, 05:16:51 PM
It's... heavy.  :lol:
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: grislyatoms on December 07, 2009, 05:21:12 PM
Not sure, but I believe the term is "volley gun". Aptly named.  =D They had something in one of the NRA publications about them many moons ago.

Didn't know they made them that big, though...

G98 will be along to set us straight, I'm sure. ;)
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 07, 2009, 05:30:06 PM
prolly has some kind of pintle mount

really cool volley guns shoot square bullets
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpremium1.uploadit.org%2FdocZox%2F%2Fpuckle.jpg&hash=ad7beb1b09e12a76a6c650270e673de24220323e)
Puckle's defense gun
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: crt360 on December 07, 2009, 06:11:45 PM
The buttplate doesn't look too comfy.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: PTK on December 07, 2009, 06:16:34 PM
Looks like an early 1700s wall defense volley gun. A group of someones come in close, boom. Repeatedly.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on December 07, 2009, 07:45:44 PM
Quote from: crt360 on December 07, 2009, 06:11:45 PM
The buttplate doesn't look too comfy.

Volley guns are supposed to be comforting, not comfortable.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 07, 2009, 07:55:55 PM
Something from a Final Fantasy game?  
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on December 07, 2009, 07:56:57 PM
Quote from: fistful on December 07, 2009, 07:55:55 PM
Something from a Final Fantasy game?  

No, it needs a 400 pound sword attached to it also to qualify for a SquareSoft weapon.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: Perd Hapley on December 07, 2009, 08:55:55 PM
 :laugh:  True dat.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: Scout26 on December 07, 2009, 09:00:23 PM
Almost looks like what Jim Bowie (as played by Richard Widmark) carried in the original version of "The Alamo", with John Wayne.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3886286105/  at about 2:18 you can see it.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: AJ Dual on December 07, 2009, 09:33:57 PM
Quote from: Harold Tuttle on December 07, 2009, 05:30:06 PM
prolly has some kind of pintle mount

really cool volley guns shoot square bullets
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fpremium1.uploadit.org%2FdocZox%2F%2Fpuckle.jpg&hash=ad7beb1b09e12a76a6c650270e673de24220323e)
Puckle's defense gun


The square bullets are only for Turks. Christians/Europeans rate nice round bullets.
Title: Re: Whatsit?
Post by: KD5NRH on December 07, 2009, 10:46:56 PM
Quote from: scout26 on December 07, 2009, 09:00:23 PM
Almost looks like what Jim Bowie (as played by Richard Widmark) carried in the original version of "The Alamo", with John Wayne.

Nah, that one only had seven barrels: http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Nock_Gun