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dZ · August 7, 2001, 04:13 PM

a puckle is not a gattling gun:

Essentially a very early revolving cannon, the Puckle Gun was designed in 1717.
It features a hand revolved chamber of six to twelve rounds and a single fixed
barrel. You fired the the first chamber, unwound the breechlock, rotated
another chamber up to the breech, wound up the breechlock and fired again.
The weapon fired "One Large or Sixteen Musquete Balles", in other words,
shot or grape. This weapon is either match or flintlock

August 7, 2001, 04:13 PM	#2
dZ Senior Member Join Date: May 31, 1999 Location: Exiled, Fetid Swamp, DC Posts: 7,548	a puckle is not a gattling gun: Essentially a very early revolving cannon, the Puckle Gun was designed in 1717. It features a hand revolved chamber of six to twelve rounds and a single fixed barrel. You fired the the first chamber, unwound the breechlock, rotated another chamber up to the breech, wound up the breechlock and fired again. The weapon fired "One Large or Sixteen Musquete Balles", in other words, shot or grape. This weapon is either match or flintlock __________________ "O tell the Lacedomecians to damn the torpedoes." BOTR, Chapter V: Some Monsters