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[TexasRedneck]

Okay....I thought I was pretty "up" on gun development....until I watched the attached link! Freakin' unbelievable that stuff like this was around over 200 years ago!

FT forum: This is just to cool not to spread around

 

[jtriron]

Thanks,
That was cool.

 

[Fisherman777]

Amazing! I didn't know this. I want one!

 

[Dawico]

I have seen a show on the History Channel about that. Peace through superior firepower works.

 

[MR Redneck]

That's awsome! I have to share this.
Why in the Hell didnt I learn that in School?

 

[Rum Runner]

Thanks for sharing. That was very cool.

 

[matefrio]

I've been to the National Firearms Museum and went several years ago to look at that gun specifically among others. Amazing place if you're in DC area.

The place is overwhelming http://www.nramuseum.com

 

[codeman]

That’s one hell of a BB gun. I’d like to have one too. I couldn’t find any one who had a 50 cal in stock but this website seams to have a 9mm and two 45 cal. Big Bore Hunting Rifles - BB Guns Pellet Guns

 

[matefrio]

 

[IXLR8]

Kid, you'll put your eye out....

Too cool for words. Great video.

 

[Rum Runner]

Here is my question. How come there seems to have been no significant improvement in 200 years?

 

[Carolinaboy]

That's too cool

 

[swsmailman]

That was pretty cool, pretty neat for it being 200 years old.

 

[TexasRedneck]

The amazing thing to me is the creativity and sheer audacity it took to even manufacture something capable of those kinds of pressures....

 

[lalonguecarabine]

I'd read about those before, but I hadn't actually seen one. Thanks for finding this for us.

 

[ROGER4314]

I've heard about the air rifle before but this is the first time I heard about the significance of it. Cool flick! Thanks for sharing it!

Flash

 

[cuate]

How advanced that repeating air rifle was in that day ! I am surprised that interest and manufacture in our country was not forthcoming but I have to compare it with the electric car of today. The car, non polluting, quiet, just marvelous but travel limited and recharges necessary, thus of no value to the majority of American users of the automobile. We demand an auto ready to go at any time. The soldiers, hunters, trappers of early day had no desire to "recharge" the air rifle and although it was a repeater, sitting down and pumping it up might come at a time when ordinary powder, patch and ball and priming the pan was ultimately faster in a situation when it might mean life or death....

 

[45tex]

I did take note that it takes 1500 pumps to fully charge the rifle. Who could keep count? Probably by the time it took 3 underlings to pump it, it was full.
I'd like one, pump some all week and go shooting on Saturday.
Also does anyone know how much it weighed with an iron buttstock?

 

[zembonez]

Great video. I had no idea.

 

[TexasRedneck]

Also does anyone know how much it weighed with an iron buttstock?

They could apparently carry 2 spare charged air tanks - the rifle weighed in at 10 lbs w/the buttstock (which was actually the air tank).