I found this high speed xray photograph of a gatling gun cycling and it seems to show the bullet tipping pretty badly inside the barrels. I just thought that it was interesting.

That's wierd.

Seems like a whole lotta rounds fired and haven't exited the barrel yet.

Considering it took 0.0xxx seconds to take that image, multiply that out to the minute or second, and by 34 (my best count) to get rate of fire

somethings not quite right I'd say

That doesn't look like a schematic of any Gatling I've ever seen.

Where did you get the picture? If that were atrue picture of a Gatling I could see that happening possibly through the use of Ultra High speed photography.

Also the gatlings I worked on had firing rates between 4>6000 rounds per minute. As the barrles (6) are spinning it would be coceivable that the bullets would appear to be tipped.

Bill

Something sure doesn't look right.

Could it possibly be on of those weapons that has the bullets stacked in the barrels and then are set of electronically?? Looks to me like they have left some type of tube or barrel. All the cases are where?

Heck if I know.

I don't recognize it either.
Is this an original "gattling gun" like from the late 1800's or something? What did they shoot, 45-70 or ...? I note the rounded nose bullets being used here.

A gatlin gun with a tang safety? Kinda strange looking. Looks like a hinged action. I do not believe you can have more than one bullet at a time in any barrel. That would spray bullets around pretty randomly. At least until it blew up. Looks bogus to me.

And, where did the steel barrels go in the pic? Steel shows up nice except in the barrels. Bogus.

Definitely not Gatling. It is a break open (thumb lever). If the pic has not been photo shop fiddled with or it is not a multiple exposure, it most looks like a modern version of a punt gun. I've seen them that chambered multiple 22 rounds but not that many. The bullets are tipping because they are not contained within a barrel the caliber of the bullet. You'd see the individual barrels if they were there. Once the bullets leave the chamber, they are on their own.

Gidday Guys,

If you look at it closely it appears to be some kind of pepperbox arrangement as you can see maybe a dozen or so short 2 - 3" barrels with cases loaded in them. The bullets are all straight and stable until they exit these short barrels and then they become unstable.

I would also suggest that there are a number of exposures of the same firing with the same bullets caught on film a number of times.

Happy Hunting

Hamish

Frank, someone is pulling the lanyard here...

I believe Hamish has nailed it. Multiple exposures of some type of pepperbox. But, I still don't understand how you could see the bullets in a steel barrel.

I found it on a site here: http://whatsthecrack.net/Amazing-Slow-Motion-x-ray-gun-shots-pictures


But I think that in real life it is a 22lr adapter for a 40mm grenade launcher here:

It looks like the barrels in the adapter are smooth bores so that would explain the bullets yawing in the tube of the launcher.