More is Better?
Dec27
on December 27, 2012
at 1:00 am
Chapter: December 2012
Characters: Archibald Q. Gunowner and his wife Brenda.
OK, I changed my mind about that Chiappa Triple Threat concept shotgun that I posted a video of before. Silliness. The last thing we need is firearms manufacturers getting into a goddamn Barrel Number War on coach/skeet guns. Nobody wins. And you just know if someone came out with a 20-barreled shottie, some doofuses would buy it. They’d line up to buy that monstrosity.
Also, this is batshit fucking stupid:
So… “single” locked hammers, “single” double mag, twice the number of rounds to miss your target with…
Of course that requires that there be 2 triggers on the damn thing….
Also I can NOT imagine that being comfortable to hold, being as wide as it is.
The Chiappa is just a modern version of a “thing” that has happened several times over in history. Hell, google search “Triple Barrel Shotgun.” Hell, there was a 4 barrel shotgun made before as well.
Really? Nothing new here.
The Dual-1911 however, is just silly, and will never be anything more than a range queen for showing off how fabulously wealthy you are that you can afford something so ridiculous if it ever gets put into production.
The 1911 would be sort-of cool if they used doublestack magazInes(think Para Ord). But the 3 barrel thing is just silly, 4 barrels would be better(hate odd numbers). One of these days I should buy two O/U shotguns and make a quad-barrel shotgun.
I have actually seen a repeating drilling. (That’s a three-barreled weapon, usually a combination of shotgun and rifle rounds.) What can I say, the bolt-action double rifle just wasn’t enough for this guy. The problem with a double-1911 is that it would inevitably fire two rounds per trigger pull, making it a machine gun per the BATF. Otherwise, if it fired only a single round, it would eject an unfired cartridge. (The slide appears to be one piece.) I don’t see any way to set up the recoil spring for firing single rounds without barring double rounds, or vice-versa.
by having two triggers, per the ATF, it is only firing one round per trigger pull, yes you pull both at the same time, but it gets it around the machine gun rules.
Give it a few months. There will be at least one action movie with a four barreled shotgun in it. That’s wielded one-handed.
You’ve never seen Phantasm 2, have you?
Has a whole A-Team/McGuyver sequence in the movie while he builds it. Uses it once and … well it speaks for itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkIgo4AnRdU
Actually, the 20 barrel model has been made – a couple centuries ago, right around the end of the Tokugawa Empire in Japan. For documentary, see ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ (Koike/Kojima) (Dark Horse edition for English) and see what’s in the bottom of Daigoro’s pram.
Oh…do NOT mock the 5-blad razors. As someone who’s taken the offensive against male pattern baldness and shaves his head multiple times a week, I assure you, you’ll only take my Gilette 5-blade from MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.
Oh, aye to that, jkp. I tried to go back to 3-blade for budget concerns, and it was like trying to shave my legs with scratchy wire. 5 blades = spoiled. Also smooth and silky and NOT bleeding.
Okay, I use the Gillette Fusion (five blades, motha-bleepah) on my chin-whiskers. The hair on my head (down to oh, the bottom of my shoulder blades, and I’m six-two) remains thick, if not quite dark. (Lotsa grey, but it looks darker. Hey, I still get complements from women my mother’s age.) But then there was the mock-commercial featuring a 17-blade razor. Looked kinda like a tennis racquet. I agree there’s a point of diminishing returns, but I think the Fusion is hitting the sweet spot. Then again, when they come out with a six blade, I’ll probably give it a try.
I bladed my head for years. Frankly, the Mach III is the best for headshaving – anything beyond that is just extraneous.
Now I’m picturing a rotating, multi-barreled hybrid of a shotgun and minigun. That’d be an incredible mess.
Now I’m remembering playing “Shadow Warrior”, fun little 3d shooter from 15 years ago. Shotgun was a 4 barreled rotating mostrosity w/ a semi auto mode, and a four round “burst” mode…
A couple of centuries ago, the Royal Navy was experimenting with a 7-barreled .50 cal musket. All seven barrels touched of simultaneously, in a single volley. There were some concerns about recoil. Sgt Harper uses one in the “Sharpe” series. Fun books, also fun (if very loooow budget) movies.
Frankly, I’ll probably get a Triple Threat, if only because it’s 1/5th to 1/10th the price of any other Drilling I’ve ever seen, and I’ve always wanted a Drilling. IMHO, price is the main reason Drillings never caught on like double rifles/shotguns did. Well, outside of Austria and Germany, that is.
what about those 4-gauge shotguns they imported from russia few years back. it is of absolutely no use. for anything. one of the guys who fired it when they first got here got a broken jaw. from the recoil.
it’s purely to hang on a wall and be able to say you have something bigger than the next guy.
This is why Mel has a 10 ga H&R that the previous owner chopped to 19″ on the barrel.
Since gauge = round balls per pound of lead, you could take a 4-gauge, fire it until it gets good and hot, then drizzle shredded Cheddar on the breech.
Voila! A quarter-pounder with cheese!
Multi-barreled rifles, shotguns and combinations have long been popular in parts of Europe, especially Germany. The _drilling_ and _vrieling_ are supposedly very handy in situations where you may encounter – and legally shoot – several different types of game.
Then there’s the volley gun, as seen used by Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie in _The Alamo_. These were originally designed for things like shooting out the rigging on enemy sailing ships.
a double barreled 1911. HOORAY.
twice the parts to break,
twice the recoil,
twice the ammo cost,
and, more importantly, TWICE AS MUCH GUN TO MAKE UP FOR THE BALLS YOU DON’T HAVE.
BUY TODAY.
teehee.
Oh! Just remembered. The Armory Museum in downtown Frankfort, Kentucky has a number of experimental firearms in its vault. One they used to have on exhibit was a proposed pilot’s survival gun. It was two full-auto .22 LR pistols on a single frame with a single trigger. The idea (if there was any thinking behind this) was apparently to substitute rate of fire for effectiveness. 🙂
I read once there was a plan at GE to make a 3-barreled .22LR micro-mini gatling gun with an ALICE pack sized battery/ammo hopper. the gun strapped to the underside of the forearm and had a pistol grip with a “basket” like a naval cutlass to protect the hand.
they were calling it “the magic wand” because you could “wave your hand and problems would cease to be”
then they fired all the engineers..because they obviously had WAY too much spare time on their hands.
Why were they fired? It would be frikkin magic to have that, thread the barrels and put suppressors on them and you would have a ballistic chainsaw.
Well, they had to blame *someone* and the manager who ordered them to do the work was too important.
(Can you tell I’m an engineer? 😉
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Could you be persuaded to repost your old essay about the increasing-number razor trend?
I remember that was freakin hilarious.
So’s this strip, by the way.