"Steampunk" gatling gun made with 10/22

[TheTman]

This links to a video of a guy demonstrating his "steampunk" gatling gun made out of a 10/22. I thought maybe some would find it interesting.
Steampunk is a deal where people dress in Victorian style costunes and design gadgets that run on steam power. Kind of if the gasoline or electric motors had never been invented. It's somewhat like the Renaissance fairs, where the participants pretend they are in another era.
If you watched the movie The Wild Wild West, the gadgets were "Steampunk". The gatling gun is NOT a real steampunk device, as it actually doesn't use steam for anything. It just looks steampunk.
It's powered by turning a crank with one hand.

http://www.guns.com/2013/11/14/kickass-working-steampunk-1022-gatling-gun-video/

[jeepster09]

Cool.

[downtownv]

Need a 50/100 round drum mag to really enjoy that device.
and a limitless supply of 22lr's

[TheTman]

You could save a lot of weight, by using just a 10/22 and one of those hand crank things that bolts on the trigger guard and pulls the trigger 3 or 4 times each rotation. I think those were probably outlawed though.

I guess not, here is a place selling the GAT trigger system.
http://www.rapidfiretriggers.com/

[AJBert]

And here I never even realized when I joined the Navy way back in '82 and became a steampunk when I signed up to be a boiler tech!

Oh, pretty cool what the guy did with the 10/22, also!

[Kinetic]

Wow

[muggsy]

And here I never even realized when I joined the Navy way back in '82 and became a steampunk when I signed up to be a boiler tech!

Oh, pretty cool what the guy did with the 10/22, also!

We Machinist Mates took away a lot of your steam. From one snipe to another, AJ.

[tv_racin_fan]

I would love to see the internals on that one. I bet the gear work to get the barrels to line up exactly with the 10/22 receiver at exactly the right time is staggering. That or I do not want to be anywhere near that thing when it is fired as it would be spitting debris all over the place. Grab a revolver and watch the fire and debris coming out thru the gap between cylinder and barrel.

[RRP]

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Grab a revolver and watch the fire and debris coming out thru the gap between cylinder and barrel.

And that's what this is, isn't it? It's a revolver, but rather than the cylinder revolving, it is the barrels that revolve.

Very clever design and outstanding craftsmanship. I, too, would like to see the "guts".

[A_White]

Cool idea and like the steampunk stuff too, but I'm not real impressed with the looks/workmanship though.... The copper shell is janky looking and rivets are all half azzed, with no pattern or reason. Bolted cabinet handle on the top, folded over the tabs for the "boiler" cut out. ect

I'm kinda thinking the gun part is basically a stock 10/22 with a crank trigger The center barrel is the only real one and the others rotate around it via electric motor. I may be wrong and its a precision built one off. Just don't get the impression from the out side.

[tv_racin_fan]

I'm kinda thinking the gun part is basically a stock 10/22 with a crank trigger The center barrel is the only real one and the others rotate around it via electric motor. I may be wrong and its a precision built one off. Just don't get the impression from the out side.

Watching the video again I believe you are correct on the "barrels" rotating around the actual barrel.

[TheTman]

I'm pretty sure the stub of a 10/22 barrel just shoots the bullet down the copper pipes as they line up. The mechanics wouldn't be too hard to figure out, 6 barrels, 60 degrees apart, just have the firing mechanism fire every 60 degrees the handle is rotated.

[A_White]

I'm thinking its just a decorated gun. He said how he kept in legal by using the electric motor to spin the barrels. I doubt he chopped the factory barrel to 4 inches or whatever it would be(making it illegal I believe).