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Amazing rifle. Must have been a really passionate and dedicted gunmaker artist who made this one!

brings to mind jerry clowers's advice to maurice ledbetter... "just shoot in here amongst us, you're bound to hit something"... with that many barrels, there ought to be 1 that shoots to sights...

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Originally posted by Nakihunter:
http://images.gunsinternationa...gs/100288917-1-s.JPG

http://www.gunsinternational.c...cfm?gun_id=100288917

Amazing rifle. Must have been a really passionate and dedicted gunmaker artist who made this one!

I didn't check it out with any care because volley rifles aren't my thing. But, IIRC most volley rifles fire all of the barrels with one pull of the trigger. That makes regulation almost irrelevant.

This one could be different. It could be that one pull of the trigger fires all the Hornet barrels and another pull fires all the 6 m/m barrels. Even if that is the case, I would guess that the barrels aren't regulated regards to each other.

Four barrels of one all at once followed by four barrels of the other all at once would fuel a hope that something would be struck when ground-sluiced, or walk or run into one or the other of those volleys.

Yes the ad does say that all the barrels fire at once. Making it completely useless, IMO.

Volley guns of this calibre range were designed as long range "shotguns" for game like geese, and swan, at 100 yards and out.

Good ones are regulated to produce a useful "pattern" at these distances.

Yes volley guns were made for that use, and for use against "plagues" of small animals which feed and travel in relatively tight-knit groups or families.

I agree that the bretter volley guns shoot useful patterns at longish ranges. But I really wonder how much of that is due to knowledgeable "regulation" and how much due to happenstance?

Understanding the means by which many of the old double guns and rifles were regulated, I doubt that much true "regulation" took place with volley guns.

AC

I handled a "volley gun" a few years ago at the DSC show. It was a 22 Hornet, and I cannot remember if it had 8 or 10 barrels.

There as some paperwork with it that showed a very good pattern at 100 yards.

I really wanted to buy it as I thought it would make me a good turtle gun for my pond, as well as a good 100 yard turkey gun.

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
Volley guns of this calibre range were designed as long range "shotguns" for game like geese, and swan, at 100 yards and out.

Good ones are regulated to produce a useful "pattern" at these distances.

I reckon they would be pretty good on a tight group of ducks as well, either on the water or sitting on a river bank, especially if fired in the horizontal plane.

Single bullets can take off / hit multiple heads on a mob of ducks so I would say one of these could do wonders.

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I would regulate the thing as follows:
Four shots to sights
Another barrel to each leg.
That way, the victim would not run away and die far.