The Gatling gun is a machine gun that consists of multiple barrels revolving around a central axis and is capable of being fired at a rapid rate. Butler of the Union army first used the gun at the siege of Petersburg,, in 1864-1865. Did You Know? Richard Gatling had actually hoped that the tremendous power of his new weapon would discourage large scale battles and show the folly of war.

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 3-15.1, Machine Guns and Machine Gun Gun- nery, describes how various machine guns are maintained and employed by the U.S. Corps' machine gun crews. It also provides the principles and. Destruction of Machine Guns. In 1916 the dark storm clouds. 86 GUNS & AMMO l Surplus Firearms on plans to gain an upper hand in the fighting, some secret weapon or approach to the fighting that would give them unbroken open field running through the enemy lines. Deep inside the German war machine, Hugo Schmeisser was perfecting a new. On This Website You Can. Purchase highly detailed CAD drawings on prints or CD-ROM (.pdf format) that contain rendered isometric or 3-D views of all parts, to build a historically detailed 1/3 scale model of a Colt 1874 Gatling Gun.

The gun is named for its inventor, Richard Jordan Gatling, a physician. Gatling neatly divided his sympathies during the Civil War. While trying to sell machine guns to the Union, he was an active member of the Order of American Knights, a secret group of Confederate sympathizers and saboteurs.

The conservatism of the Union army chief of ordinance and the unreliability of early models of the gun frustrated efforts to sell it to the U.S. But Gatling soon improved on the original six-barrel,.58 caliber version of the gun, which fired 350 rounds a minute, by designing a ten-barrel,.30 caliber model, which fired 400 rounds a minute. Army adopted the Gatling gun in 1866, and it remained standard until it was replaced in the early twentieth century by the Maxim single-barrel machine gun. The Gatling gun played an important role after the Civil War, giving small numbers of U.S. Troops enormous advantages in firepower over the western Indians. In newly colonized portions of Africa and Asia, the Gatling gun provided the Europeans’ margin of victory over local forces.

A modern, helicopter-mounted version of the Gatling gun, the Vulcan minigun, was widely used by the U.S. Army in the Indochina war.

The minigun, popularly known as ‘Puff, the Magic Dragon’ for the flames and smoke emitted from its muzzle, fires at the staggering rate of 6,000 rounds per minute, enough to decimate an entire village in one burst. The minigun continues to be used as a counterinsurgency weapon in Central America. A larger version, the 20mm Vulcan is used for antiaircraft defense.

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Mike, Unfortunatly you got here a month too late.Go to the Photo Album and look at the pictures of Butch's Gatling.He finished it and took ill soon after and passed onto the machine shop in the sky.There is still a lot of info in the posts there and further down this page.(Look at the post by Butch titled 'Chambering 22 cal barrels'. Here are some links I looked up after he got me thinking about the same project: There is a lot more online if you search for it.Plans are usually offered for sale in the back of most gun magazines for the one Butch built.There is one other company selling plans also that you may find.I think the one Butch used was the R G set. Corel Draw 14 Free Download Full Version With Crack For Windows 7. Good luck,Robert.