The half-size design uses 50-round clips of .22-caliber ammunition fired by a battery of 10 rotating barrels. How many of us have seen in person a Gatling with a full brass shroud around the barrels, or a drum magazine. The model plans available reflect the guns we see in Hollywood productions, rather than the full range of guns produced and licensed under Gatling's patents around the world.
Each CAD and any associated text, image or data is in no way sponsored by or affiliated with any company, organization or real-world item, product, or good it may purport to portray. Build Your Own Gatling Gun AG WORLD 33-6-22 You can pump out up to 600 rounds a minute with an 1800's style Gatling gun from RG-G, Inc. The smaller caliber dramatically reduces the amount of steel and brass needed. "Sometimes people thinking of buying one will stop by, and we'll set it up and fire off a clip or two."
This cuts the full-size gun's 350 lbs.
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We sell 1/3 Scale Plans of the Colt 1874 Gatling Gun; Tripod; Carriage and Broadwell Feeder Plans. The only raw materials missing are some parts for the carriage and yoke mount. "I just like taking mine out and firing it," explains Paul Moore, designer and builder of the gun. Box 935, Trinidad, Colo. 81082 (ph/fax 719 404-3782; paulmoore@rmi.net; www.gatlingguns.net).To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click
It's just the way the original design works."
Today he only sells the parts and plans. I have always been curious on how the Gatling gun operated and an acquaintance loaned me some early '90s vintage drawings of a .22 version of it so I started to model it. Brass and steel parts that need to be machined are also included. The half-size design uses 50-round clips of .22-caliber ammunition fired by a battery of 10 rotating barrels. This is a .22 version of a Gatling Gun made from plans. However earlier I travelled to harpers ferry to continuously buy short Gatling guns and scrap them to get mods. The Computer-Aided Design ("CAD") files and all associated content posted to this website are created, uploaded, managed and owned by third party users.
Years later, he built his first one from scratch, relying on pictures of different models introduced in the late 1800's. "I can only turn out about three a year. for the half-size version.
Plans and a CD of 3-D images of each part and assembly are also available.
You can pump out up to 600 rounds a minute with an 1800's style Gatling gun from RG-G, Inc. The kit sells for $719, and the fully finished gun, when formerly. Find the best information and most relevant links on all topics related to "I recommend these guns only be attempted by someone with experience, like a retired machinist," he says. D&E Model Drawings.
"My guns use the original gravity-fed, in-feed design, " says Moore.
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"The in-feed jams up easily, and then it has to be reset. Some customers have also successfully modified our plans to produce full-size versions"
Even though the difficulty in completing a gun limits the market, Moore says he has sold more than 500 kits and some 8,000 sets of blue prints over the past 18 years. Finished size is 3 ft. long by 2 ft. tall. These kits aren't for the average person, emphasizes Moore, as they require basic mill and lathe work to complete. Working steadily on one, it will take about 600 hours to complete. "I realized a set of blueprints were needed, so I disassembled the one I had built and drew them up," he recalls. Moore, an engineer and machinist by trade, fell in love with Gatling guns while watching cowboy movies as a kid. Kits consist of all hardware needed (screws, nuts, bolts, bushings, gears, springs and bearings) as well as rifled barrel liners and ground firing pins. For many years he built and sold fully assembled and partially completed versions of the guns in addition to parts and plans.
Selling the kits and plans ensures that buyers will understand and be able to fix the guns themselves.