Anybody own one of these?

[Bud Tugly]

http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/industrial/kiln_guns.asp

Illegal for hunting and of no practical value except for removing scale from kilns and boilers, but it would be fun to fire one. It uses 8 gauge shells firing either 2 or 3 ounce slugs or buckshot.

I can just picture having one on a swivel mount like a navy deck gun as an ultimate anti-zombie weapon.

 

[oneounceload]

We had a Winchester like that at our power plant to blast slag off the boiler walls - this was after wearing out three 1100's with buckshot and slugs....talk about expensive shells!..

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I can just picture having one on a swivel mount like a navy deck gun as an ultimate anti-zombie weapon

I like it. Mounted in the rear of a vehicle like the machine gun in the jeep in Romancing the Stone. Or on the front porch.

 

[Acera]

This may be a picture of the round it uses. It's a number 8 industrial, sitting next to a regular 12 gauge field load. Obviously this a an old round,paper shell, solid lead projectile, and yes it is a magnum I would love to fire one.

 

[mgkdrgn]

This may be a picture of the round it uses. It's a number 8 industrial, sitting next to a regular 12 gauge field load. Obviously this a an old round,paper shell, solid lead projectile, and yes it is a magnum I would love to fire one.

They need to make a Gatling gun model and turn that lever into a firing crank.

NOW you would have something to mount on that jeep!

 

[Speedo66]

"Powerful, oversized muffler reduces the noise level"

It's got a silencer no less!

 

[Virginian]

We had one at all three mills I worked at with Lime Kilns. Always shot Remington Industrial green plastic shells loaded with slugs. Beast weighed about 200 pounds, mounted on a tripod, single shot. Very UN-impressive.
We once had some coal get bound up in a bunker. I brought in my 870. First round was a 1-7/8 ounce goose load of BBs. My hard hat went sailing, the operator's ear muffs went in the hopper, we never saw the superintendents safety glasses again, and 40 years of coal dust and soot came down off the rafters. BBs didn't do much, and slugs maybe busted up a five pound chunk per slug. We ended up making a water lance out of 1-1/2" conduit.

 

[Acera]

Just curious Virginian, were you not worried about all that floating coal dust when you fired your 870? I would have been concerned about the muzzle flash setting off the dust, and leveling the entire building.

 

[MCgunner]

I never could convince 'em at work that this is what we needed to break up the PVC "rocks" behind the baffles of the reactors out there when cleaning 'em. It's a PVC production process. Taiwanese are more gun-phobic than Americans, I guess. Perhaps they feared crazy Americans with toys like this. LOL But, a 6000 psi hydroblaster bounced off those rocks like they were kryptonite.

 

[Virginian]

There wasn't any coal dust before I pulled the trigger, and I didn't pull it again until the atmosphere cleared. I didn't want to be remembered as the "idiot who blew the mill off the map".

 

[Acera]

My impression of a coal dust explosion, Virginian, is that you might not have gotten the blame, being how there might not be anyone left in big enough pieces to tell the story

 

[MudPuppy]

That silencer registered with the alphabet boys?

 

[mgregg85]

Looks like it would be a fun thing to try out on the sporting clays range. I guess you'd have to mount it on the back of a jeep but that'd sure be cool.

It would be great in 3-gun when they have the door breaching stages, it looks like it could take out the whole damn door.

 

[HB]

That silencer registered with the alphabet boys?

My guess is not because silencers have to be portable(I think). The one attached to the gun apparently isn't

 

[chas08]

We had a Winchester like that at our power plant to blast slag off the boiler walls

We did the same. We went from a fleet of single shot 12 gauges to 1100 Magnums to the 8 ga. industrial. Now we use something even more fun...Explosives.

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

I use one for concealed carry.

 

[Bud Tugly]

I'd love to see the "Box o' Truth" guy run a test on it. How many sheets of drywall do you suppose a 3 ounce slug from an 8 gauge would penetrate?