And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Yeah, that many steeled barrels on same frame must be very muzzle heavy. I'm guessing either 20 gauge or one of those metric big game European cartridges that look like cigars.
That is some beautiful metal engraving done, their ilk are disappearing. One false strike and a whole lot of firearm is scrapped.
Well DANG!
ReplyDelete28 gauge?
ReplyDeleteMeh.
ReplyDeleteNow HERE's a vierling:
https://fanzoj.com/collection/gunmaking-grande-complications/vierling-a-four-barrelled-rifle-shotgun/
I remember seeing a 3-barrel 12 ga. That clocked in at 5-1/2 lbs.
ReplyDeletecan you make that fire off all 4 barrels at once? That'd probably knock you right on your kiester
ReplyDeleteYou gotta remember, they invented 4-bores!
DeleteYeah, that many steeled barrels on same frame must be very muzzle heavy. I'm guessing either 20 gauge or one of those metric big game European cartridges that look like cigars.
ReplyDeleteThat is some beautiful metal engraving done, their ilk are disappearing. One false strike and a whole lot of firearm is scrapped.
It's a Charles Lancaster 4 barrel 28ga shotgun. He also produced four barrel pistols with a twisting oval bore instead of rifling.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/robert-e-petersen-collection/british-best-guns/lancaster-four-barrel-shotgun-28-ga.aspx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QTeyPe0UGY
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