Charlie T Waite Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Very Interesting historic firearm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Thank you, Charlie. Very interesting gun. I would love to shoot it. I watched the video hoping he would mention the weight of it. He said he guessed it would weigh about the same as a Nock Volley Gun. I did a search but couldn’t find much regarding the weight of a volley gun except for one that was a 42” .32 caliber volley gun that weighed 12 pounds. If I could afford to own something like this I would definitely want to fire it, but I would never want to damage a beautiful piece of history so I wouldn’t. Still, it is fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Pat, this American Rifleman article has some good info. He shot it. https://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/2012/11/19/nocks-volley-gun/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I wonder what the shot grouping would be like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie T Waite Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 3 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Thank you, Charlie. Very interesting gun. I would love to shoot it. I watched the video hoping he would mention the weight of it. He said he guessed it would weigh about the same as a Nock Volley Gun. I did a search but couldn’t find much regarding the weight of a volley gun except for one that was a 42” .32 caliber volley gun that weighed 12 pounds. If I could afford to own something like this I would definitely want to fire it, but I would never want to damage a beautiful piece of history so I wouldn’t. Still, it is fascinating. Here ya go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Charlie T Waite said: Here ya go Wow! 468 grains of fine BP in the initial recommended load! No wonder they cut it darn near in half. Dislocated shoulders indeed! That’s 66 grains of powder in each barrel pushing a .32 caliber bullet. Wow! And I thought a 7 lb .300 Winchester Magnum really kicked! I would still like to pull the trigger on one. With the reduced load of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie T Waite Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: Wow! 468 grains of fine BP in the initial recommended load! No wonder they cut it darn near in half. Dislocated shoulders indeed! That’s 66 grains of powder in each barrel pushing a .32 caliber bullet. Wow! And that's just 7 barrels - think what would happen when all 14 went at on time.... Sure ya wouldn't want some lineament for that shoulder as well there Pat????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 9 minutes ago, Charlie T Waite said: And that's just 7 barrels - think what would happen when all 14 went at on time.... Sure ya wouldn't want some lineament for that shoulder as well there Pat????? Well...I do have 2 shoulders...Actually, just 7 barrels would be quite enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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