"Congo Compton," he fought in Angola, tipped up at the Compound in a huge new 4x4 F One Fiddy. "That's a good looking truck you got there, brother. Did you bring the Gatling?" Yes, he had, and after some strong covfefe we headed out to the range in a two truck convoy. Mission? To celebrate Trafalgar Day with a shoot. And that's exactly what we did.
Congo got right down to it, setting up his beautifully machined Tippman Ordnance Gatling on a sturdy oak tripod. And before you could say Impi we were cranking the handle like fury, unleashing a stream of hot 9 mm lead at a group of foolishly ill-prepared pumpkins. They didn't stand a chance.
They also failed to defeat a PPS 43 semi, chambered for 7.62×25mm Tokarev, a Mini 14, several .38 Special Snubbies and a Glock 21. Bad luck, pumpkins, you lost this round, But how would Tannerite stand up to the 7.62 NATO of an old Aero Precision AR 10?
Explosively and then some. What a lot of fun. Mission accomplished, we drove back to the Compound through the bucolic pastures of Hill County Texas, a good time had by all. Moral of the story? Get out in the countryside and shoot.
2A,
LSP
12 comments:
Ah... the Tippman Gatling. Would love to have one of those. Or the reproduction Colt Bulldogs in .45-70. And the money to feed them.
Neat thing about the Gatling, as long as it's hand-cranked it's just an assembly of semi-auto guns (each barrel has its very own breech and firing pin, therefore each is a separate gun...) But hook up an electric motor to the crank handle (replace crank with a pulley, pulley on the motor and belt or chain to connect the whole thing) and suddenly you've committed a major series of felonies.
Sigh. ATF, ruining dreams since 1934...
Well, now I'm just plain jealous. And a chance to shoot one in 45-70? Be still my beating heart. What a wonderful companion piece to my Trapdoor Springfield.
And what Beans said about an electric motor. I have an article in a dusty box somewhere, relating sometime post WWII how a couple of military officers tracked down a surplus still new-in-the-crate Colt Gatling gun (1874 model, IIRC) possibly from Bannerman Surplus. Testing the concept, they did exactly as mentioned, swapped the hand crank for an electric motor. I don't recall mention of a specific RPM, but the ammo used was original issue black powder loads. What a sight and sound that must have been.
And reading the post above, I wonder how many Irish might be clicking over to this post.
Whatever happens
LSP has got
A Gatling gun
And you do not.
Covfefe.
I have wanted one of those little Commie sub-guns since exposure to that virus during my formative years serving in the hordes of King Richard of Nixon. Yum.
A Gatling in 9mm? Damn, one you could just about afford to feed
Fired one in Cody, Wyoming because I like old school. It was a gas dreaming I had gone back a hundred years.
Beans, a .45-70?
YES PLEASE.
Right on, RHT, and I was thinking on your trap as I cranked the handle.
Irish?
If I was a Rainbow Overlord I might be worried.
Wild, such beautiful verse!
The little ComGuns are alright and shoot most easily, as you know. But you know what? All I have is an SKS. Huh. Must expand armory.
Hey, Firehand, it's my pal's and he's a man of substance :) Great fun.
BCCL, what a lot of fun! Saying that, it'd be neat to get on a higher caliber. Still, the ( variant's a lot of fun. Crank away.
I too like Old School.
The Cold Bulldog is the shorter one, with the barrels enclosed.
My personal favorite, of course, is the larger one in .45-70 with the exposed barrels.
Though having one in the original 1 caliber, as in 1" (or 25.4mm for Euroweenies,) though with a more modern cartridge design (the original has reloadable heavy brass cases...) would be so choice, as Ferris Beuller would say.
All? All? Poppycock. I learnt real good during my aforementioned formative years that a determined individual armed with an SKS is not to be trifled with.
He'll shoot your eye out, kid.
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