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I also found that one interesting. I've read about him before, but, I keep forgetting.
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They could make that into a screenplay and a decent movie if they threw a little background story in there too, and maybe a love interest.
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There was a love interest, his wife and family.
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Wow - the Puckle gun is fascinating. I heartily recommend the wiki page yo've linked to. Really interesting. I hadn't heard of it before (probably because it didn't make into regular usage in the British forces).
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Based your recommendation, Dana, I've added a link to to the Wiki article about the Puckle gun itself.
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Nice one, Grav.
Weaponry from this period is really interesting. There's a link on that wiki page to an older design for a repeating firearm that was much lesslike a 'machine gun' but actually allowed for faster firing. Trouble was it was way expensive to make, and way to sensitive to adverse conditions. basically, the slightest damp on the powdr woud totally bollox the gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater No good for mainstream army use, because of the way firearms were mass produced and distributed. Basically - for largescale use, the separate coponents were each mass produced and then assembled, but with something like the Kalthoff repeater, the tolerance for any size or shape variation was so tiny, it just woldn't have worked on that scale. For the standard musket there would still have been problems mixing and matching components, but they had greater tolerance for variation, so far fewer rejected components. Also, much more reliable in adverse weather conditions. Even so, there are countless examples of inadequate guns, and rejected components.
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