Ultimate 22LR to deal with hordes of invading tree rats.

[MikeInOr]

One of us is confused, or maybe that was a joke.

I am pretty sure that all 5 barrels fire, just like the original Gatling gun. When a barrel rotates around to the top it gets a round fed in. When that barrel reaches the 4 o'clock position it fires.

When I viewed the plinkster video I am pretty sure that plinkster made a point about only one barrel actually fires. One complete rotation of the barrel assembly = 1 shot fired.

I could be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time.

Update: Check out about 1:40 in the plinkster video. He quickly mentions that only 1 of the 6 barrels fires. If you look at the ammo chain the spacing of the ammo kind of bears this out.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong? ...No offence will be taken. Is Plinkster revueing a different Gatlin gun?

 

[Jim Watson]

If you really want the firepower, you want an American 180

A MG dealer near here carried those, back when. I never got to shoot one, though.
I did get to fire an M16 with LR conversion kit. That was fun but it was not very reliable.

I have shot other fulll autos but find them a "funny once" experience. Knowing somebody who has a Thompson is better than having your own.

 

[230RN]

I recall an arrangement with two Ruger "Standard" (Mark 1?) .22 semis firing alternately with a crank. This was in a now-defunct gun store on 44th Avenue in Wheat Ridge. I believe it was a one-of-a-kind arrangement on consignment or something.

I thought it was silly since it was limited to 20 rounds, 10 for each gun, but later remembered that the famous BAR only had 20 round "clips." Don't know what its ultimate disposition was, and the store closed up ~5-ish years ago.

I don't know how "one turn of the crank" related to "one pull of the trigger," since one turn resulted in two pulls.

Terry, 230RN

 

[Wombatz]

Update: Check out about 1:40 in the plinkster video. He quickly mentions that only 1 of the 6 barrels fires.

I had already watched the video, before seeing this thread, so I remember what he said but I had not *just* seen in, so had to look again. My interpretation of what he was saying is to reply to the folk that think a gatling gun fires all barrels on each "bang". But I do follow what you are thinking.

Take a look at about 13 seconds in and I do think the feeder is spaced at one round per barrel, so I do think it is working all the barrels. I think he is mistaken when he suggests one shot per full rotation. When you watch the slow motion it looks like one shot at just about a half turn or maybe less.

P.S. Same here, on correcting me if I am wrong. I was very interested in this until I saw the price. Now it is just a curiosity.

Edit to add: You can set YouTube to play slow. At 25% I am pretty sure it fires 3 shots per 360 degree (full rotation).

 

[mavracer]

Not the first time Plinkster has misspoke lol.
Of course CCI now markets "Stangers".
It fires easy barrel as it reaches the 4 O'clock position. Firing one barrel at a time.

 

[12Bravo20]

It's been so long since I have seen an American 180 or any of the Tippman full auto mini machine guns. The cost of those will make the Tippman 22LR Gatling gun seem cheap.

 

[Jim Watson]

I found an American 180 listed for $16995.

 

[trackskippy]

A MG dealer near here carried those, back when. I never got to shoot one, though.
I did get to fire an M16 with LR conversion kit. That was fun but it was not very reliable.

I have shot other fulll autos but find them a "funny once" experience. Knowing somebody who has a Thompson is better than having your own.

Im lucky enough to be old enough to have got into the FA/NFA realm of things back when prices of guns and ammo were reasonable and realistic and readily available. Knowing a bunch of people who have a bunch of different things is just as good as owning your own, as everyone was always willing to share and play. And EVERYONE should own at least one.

Its a shame we are where we are now with the state of things, and too bad we arent the free people we were always told we are supposed to be.

As far as "funny once", they were always fun to me, and that was any time I was shooting them, which up until about 10 years ago now, was on a pretty much weekly basis. At least my kids got to grow up shooting them as I did as a kid, and got to shoot things most now will never get to see and enjoy, which is really a shame. Fun stuff, and once you go beyond just "fun", and know how and when to use them, a very useful tool to have. But unfortunately, denying that has always seemed to be the plan for us lowly subjects of the corporation. We get what we allow I suppose.

 

[Jim Watson]

Knowing a bunch of people who have a bunch of different things is just as good as owning your own,

Once upon a time, I knew of a group of guys who each got the appropriate licensing and built "dealer samples" which they traded around in a daisy chain type operation. I don't know what they did with them after everybody had a turn; they could not sell them to anybody but another dealer or a law enforcement agency.

Fun stuff, and once you go beyond just "fun", and know how and when to use them, a very useful tool to have.

One of M. Ayoob's early gunzine case studies was about a guy who had occasion to defend himself with a full auto. There was no doubt he was justified in shooting back and a full auto was all he had to shoot with. He said the extra hassle from the Masters Of Machine Guns convinced him to always have a semiautomatic handy.

 

[jmorris]

But it isn't a Gatling gun..

I came across some drawings I made many years ago of parts To take 6 10/22’s and turn them into a 300 round capacity Gatling gun. I think all but one of the 10/22’s I bought for the project have been turned into other things since then.

I figured I couldn’t be the only person for the idea to pop into their head and found this video. FF to 9:00 for the action.



FWIW once you ditch the crank and put a motor on it, it is a machinegun and not legal unless you have the correct FFL/SOT taken care of.

 

[12Bravo20]

I remember seeing plans for using 4 or 6 Ruger 10/22's years ago. And you are 100% correct about using any type of motor definitely changes a Gatling gun to a NFA regulated machine gun. I had to mention that on another forum when someone said that putting an electric motor on one would be fun.

 

[kimberkid]

For $4500 --- How about 2 Ruger 10-22s ($500) and $4000 worth of ammo and mags.
Shoot one until it gets hot, then shoot the other one.

This is exactly what I was thinking, but it’s only $999

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[lemaymiami]

Skimmed through the various replies (full auto for squirrels?) laughed at a few of the more absurd suggestions - then thought about all those years ago when I was a teenager in the mid 1960's. Pretty sure I qualified as the local squirrel terror back then. At the time we were living on Redstone Arsenal in north Alabama (Army family...) and every afternoon and every weekend if possible, I'd hit the woods near our house hunting rabbits and squirrels when I wasn't fishing or in scouting activities. This was definitely a simpler time compared to today's world. Most service bases have great tracts of forests and fields - Redstone was no exception...

My weapon of choice was either a Benjamin or Crossman air rifle ( the pump up, single shot, 22 caliber versions) and they were deadly effective on both squirrels and rabbits (if you could get your target to sit still for just a moment and it was no more than about 100 feet away...). For anyone with a squirrel problem and nearby neighbors... Each one was quiet enough to serve the purpose. Nowadays air rifles are much more sophisticated than the Benjamin (or Crossman) from that era - and some of them a good bit more powerful I'm told. Still those air rifles I used would drive a lead pellet through both sides of a Coke can (and back then cans were a bit tougher than they are today...

Something to consider for anyone with squirrels in a location where a firearm might be problematic... I actually still have that Benjamin - it was a present on my 15th birthday (only 60 years ago...) and someday, one of my grandkids will get a surprise ( if parents approve..).

 

[12Bravo20]

I joke about having lots of firepower to take on the hordes of evil tree rats that are trying to take over the world. Though they definitely are trying to take over.

Yes many squirrels have met their ends with a good pellet gun or single shot 22 in my hands over the years.

PS. I started this thread because I thought the 22LR Gatling gun is neat even if expensive. Plus I wanted to throw some humor in about hordes of invading tree rats.

 

[maxxhavoc]

For $4500 --- How about 2 Ruger 10-22s ($500) and $4000 worth of ammo and mags.
Shoot one until it gets hot, then shoot the other one.

Why not do both?

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2021/05/24/pike-arms-10-22-gatling-gun/

 

[mavracer]

I joke about having lots of firepower to take on the hordes of evil tree rats that are trying to take over the world. Though they definitely are trying to take over.

I get that, maybe more than most. I've been in the war on tree rats for 4 decades now. In the early days if the war I would often attempt rapid fire on fleeing combatants, typical of my youthful exuberance occasionally my focus on this would cause a rushed first shot and the results were often an empty 10/22 magazine and an escaped rat.
As a pure sniper I've had more success but wouldn't be opposed to more of a scout/sniper roll maybe a 1/2 scale Huey with a tippman in each doorway on coms.

 

[Terry G]

The DOJ bought a lot if these for the FBI, ATF, and BOP. I git to shoot one with a red laser attached. It was an experience, but the one I shot wasn't terribly reliable. a lot of malfunctions. Cooler heads must have prevailed because they were withdrawn and never used that I'm aware of. Can you imagine the Media getting hold of the information they were used in a raid or a prison riot?