Semi auto?

Brad

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A semi auto mini gun? With a 3000 round magazine? Gonna go crazy pressing the trigger that many times.
Wonder how they do with cast? Walter?

 

Rick

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Wow such a deal at a mere $125,000. How could not everyone have a couple of them?
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
The roof-mounted M-61 has been guarding the ol' homestead for many years.

It's been 50-years, but several times I saw Spooky's mini-guns very impressive night-time light show.
 

Rick

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Dang that's just right generous of Brad now isn't it. And considering your expecting #2 he should get you two, matching of course. The question then becomes with two little ones how are you ever gonna afford feeding one of them less a pair?
 

Pistolero

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Cool weapons system......but semiauto just ruins the fun entirely.

An old friend used to fly AC-47s Puffs in VN. They had three miniguns on that bird. I asked how
it was done, and he said that the original guns would jam about every 1500-3000 rds so a gun was never
firing for more than a minute, usually less. A guy was clearing one, one was on line and one cooling
and being reloaded. Typically only one gun firing most of the time. He said the back door was open
and a crewman with a harness on and tether had an aluminum grain scoop and shoveled links and brass
out the door when the gun was firing. Otherwise, hard to walk around with the brass and links everywhere.
Apparently no chute like the Dillon Aero improved models have.
Turns about a point are something that all pilots train on from early parts of training, so with a gun firing
90 degrees out the side, easy to keep them all in a small area, as long as you have unchallenged
air supremacy.

Official name was "Spooky" but he said everyone called them "Puffs" for "Puff, the Magic Dragon" from the
popular song of the era.

8998

Bill
 

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
You didn't want to be there on the ground. Every 5th round is a tracer.

This is a short firing pass, probably under a minute.

9001
 

462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Yep, seen and heard it.

We also had Shadow, a converted C-119 which added an M-61 Vulcan firing 20 mm at 6000 rounds-per-minute, stationed at the base.
 

popper

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Gun camera footage of gattling cannon on ground targets is, interesting.
 
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Ian

Notorious member
I'm thinking about holding out for Brownells to make a semi-auto GAU-8 Avenger. With a bang-button for every finger. Might have to upgrade my reloading setup a little, though.
 

Ian

Notorious member
3/4-lb per go, yep. The first hurdle is convincing the ATF that it's a transferable "destructive device" (being a rifle with no sporting purpose and bore larger than .50 caliber) and that transfering it as a DD makes the machine-gun part irrelevant. :p

Or I could build a Chevy Suburban around it and use it for killing pigs, legit sporting purpose and all. ;) If they don't go for that, maybe make it smoothbore and chop the barrels at 15.5" for an AOW designation. Let's see, an AOW, SBR, machine gun. SUPPRESSED. Hell, why not use ALL the stamps? If I used a transferable M16 receiver as the FCG, why couldn't I use the GAU-8 autocannon as an "upper"? Hmmm. That might actually be legal.
 
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Brad

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Ian, have you spoken to your retina specialist about this? I have a feeling he will tell you it is a no go.