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These bad boys cost around $2,000 each back in the 18th century. That's pretty close to $100,000 nowadays.
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I read it as Pickle Gun at first. I'm so dissappointed now. I demand it be converted to fire pickles, cucumbers are unacceptable. Or at the very least posthumously change the inventors name to Pickle.
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Makes Turkish pirates laugh since 1718. What a joke :D
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Interesting video, thanks for uploading. You mention muskets firing 1-2 shots per minute, I beg to differ. On several occasions, as a member of a Napoleonic re-enactment regiment, we were able to sustain 3+ shots per minute firing a mix of Charleville yr IX and India pattern Brown Besses. We are a French Regiment and just after a particularly anglophile commentator mentioned the superior fire rates of British regiments we demonstrated how wrong that was. Much to the amusement of the brits on the field I might add! The main restriction on this type of fire, was the amount of ammunition each soldier was carrying as resupply was not that easy once in action.
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Can you shot the guns you show us pls I'm trigged that you not showing it! :(
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The Puckle Gun. aka, a giant ass flintlock revolver with no grip mounted on a tripod, essentially.
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what a genius, damn, i didn't knew machining and milling technology was this awesome during 1720, By the way, it is actually like a BIG FAT revolver cannon, but why don't just make a BIG FAT REVOLVER CANNON? LoL ! XD , which resembles Autoloading cannon then and now.
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The original kebab remover
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great invention for a 1718
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It is a very nice gun
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I wonder if Roman ships of the late empire had problems with little pirate vessels. I imagine not really.
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The Turks would have been on deck before you'd cycled to the next round.
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It takes precision machines to make this weapon even to this day. How did they manage so far back?
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Honestly how did you get your hands on this
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So wanted to see it in action!
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so what was a better gun for the military at the time? why did they reject it
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excellent...a puckle gun! where in the hell did that come from?
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This is one of the coolest guns I've ever seen! Thanks so much for your videos!
Want a sweet Puckle Gun shirt? Check out the new Forgotten Weapons merch store: http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons If you enjoy Forgotten Weapons, check out its sister channel, InRangeTV! http://www.youtube.com/InRangeTVShow The Puckle Gun is probably best known as that thing that had round bullets for Christians and square bullets for Turks, but there is much more to it than just that (and in addition, the square bullet version was never actually built). James Puckle designed it in 1718 as a naval defensive weapon to help British vessels fight back against Ottoman pirates using fast and nimble small boats that could not be effectively engaged with large cannon. Puckle's gun was a 9-shot repeater of about 1.25" bore on a flexible swiveling mount which could easily track the fastest marauder. The Puckle is basically a manual revolver, but its firing mechanism incorporates some clever functionality to allow a fast and smooth rate of fire. The gun was demonstrated in public in 1721 (after being turned down by the Royal Navy) and fired 63 shots in 7 minutes - quite the feat at that time! The only sale appears to have been a private purchase of two guns for an expedition to the West Indies, however. Thanks to the Institute of Military Technology for allowing me to have access to this magnificent piece and bring it to you! Check them out at: http://www.instmiltech.com