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Gatling Gun Feeding Mechanisms

January 23, 2013 Ian McCollum 25

The Gatling Gun is interested for many reasons, and one of them is the variety of feeding mechanisms that were developed and used with it. Most firearms are designed around a single specific feeding mechanism, […]

Shooting an 1877 Bulldog Gatling

January 21, 2013 Ian McCollum 18

Thanks to a friendly collector, we had the chance to take out one of the new, gorgeous reproduction 1877 Gatling guns being sold by Colt. It’s a near-exact replica, with the added feature of being […]

Book Review: The Gatling Gun by Wahl and Toppel

January 10, 2013 Ian McCollum 7

Today’s book review is a re-run, because I’ve been re-reading this book in preparation for doing some video on an 1877 Gatling gun: The book we’re looking at is Paul Wahl and Donald Toppel’s The […]

Five-Barrel Nordenfelt Video

September 10, 2012 Ian McCollum 14

While we were visiting the Institute of Military Technology, we took a few minutes to check out their two 5-barrel Nordenfelt guns and chat with Joe from GardnerGuns.com about them. The Nordenfelt was one of […]