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07-03-2013, 06:11 PM
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Another bit of insanity from 1855 which wins any "how do you holster that?" contest, Joseph Enouy's 8-cylinder, 48-round "Ferris Wheel" percussion revolver:
Last edited by Evil Tim; 07-04-2013 at 06:48 AM. Reason: Quoted the site rather than counting for myself 
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07-03-2013, 07:15 PM
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07-03-2013, 10:55 PM
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You don't need a holster for it, you need a sling for that
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07-04-2013, 12:53 AM
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And clearly it's not for holstering. You have to lug it around attached to an old timey leather single point sling affixed to the butt. It doubles as an anchor. As for the belt fed pistol, you get a long enough belt to act as a bandolier and fire it as far as you can stretch it from your body as it hangs from it, hoping the chambers don't get caught or burn you as they come round. When men were men I say! Last edited by Yournamehere; 07-04-2013 at 12:56 AM.
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07-04-2013, 06:49 AM
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Should have counted myself rather than just going with what the site said, it has eight cylinders for 48 rounds. And since it's percussion, loading it must have been quite a project in itself.
And the emperor of weird high-cap 18something guns, the Guycot, is another chain rifle.  Doesn't look like much? Look inside.  These were built with capacities of up to 100 rounds (this one is 100, apparently) in a chain that filled the entire inside of the weapon including the stock, using very short ball rounds (similar to the Volcanic bullet, hence there being nothing resembling an extractor) which were inserted into cups in the chain through a hole in the top of the rifle.  The whole nightmare had an inner and outer barrel and a very thin firing pin which struck through the base of the cup. Everything was operated by the trigger (including retracting the inner barrel to form a gas-tight seal) which I guess would make this the world's first crew-served rifle. Even better, in order to load it you had to use a firing pin disconnect since the only way to advance the chain was pulling the trigger. And since this was using a Rocket Ball / Volcanic type round, you'd be looking at a rifle with the ballistics of a pocket pistol. Strangely, it didn't catch on. Last edited by Evil Tim; 07-04-2013 at 09:56 AM.
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07-14-2014, 08:58 AM
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I can into thread necromancy, because boredom
Collector's has all kind of weird guns   
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07-14-2014, 01:33 PM
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Here's a couple of neat ones for the "the founding fathers never had weapons like this" crowd, two 17th century flintlock repeating rifles!
 This is a Kalthoff repeater, the designers of which weren't about to let silly minor things like "nobody has invented the unitary firearm cartridge" stop them making a lever-action rifle. These had at least two and sometimes three magazines (powder, balls, and sometimes primer); the two-mag versions needed to be manually primed, while the three-mag version was a true 6-shot levergun.  This is a Cookson repeater, a 7-shot 1750 rifle based on a mechanism developed in 1680. This one's simpler; the lever is linked to a drum that rotates and the balls and powder are in the stock, you reload by tilting the gun forward and operating the lever to rotate the drum in line with the stock and then back to the barrel, and it's self-cocking and self-priming too!
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