![]() A modern, helicopter- mounted version of the Gatling gun, the Vulcan minigun, was widely used by the U. ![]() Gardners often had multiple barrels up to five. In newly colonized portions of Africa and Asia, the Gatling gun provided the Europeans’ margin of victory over local forces. The Gardner Gun very much resembles a manually operated machine gun in operation. The gun has a reciprocating breech block with a familiar-looking extractor, ejector, and firing pin, all of which are actuated via a cam track acted upon by the crank a very ingenious design from the time when black powder and immature metallic cartridge technology made true self-powered machine guns extremely problematic to design. As if that wasn’t enough, Papa Joe decided that his Gardner would be scaled down and chambered for. Since no blueprints are available, he had to track down an existing Gardner and take precise measurements of every dimension of every part, create his own (electronic) prints, and then construct each piece himself. GunLab has begun a series of posts documenting the effort of one Papa Joe (who receives a regular mention there) to reconstruct a Gardner Gun from scratch. multibarrel guns with the barrels and their respective breeches mounted on a rotor Breech mechanisms therefor. The Gardner Gun is one of an entire generation of all-but-forgotten* manually operated proto-machine guns.
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