In the SWCA section of the forum, S&W ucla was kind enough to remember a couple videos I showed at the SWCA Symposium this summer of the NRA Museum Staff hard at work making "interpretive use" of some of the more interesting firearms in the NRA collection.
I though ya'll might enjoy seeing them.
This one begins with a Nock Volley gun (flintlock Brit naval weapon ca. 1805, all 7 barrels fire at once - tended to dislocate the shoulder of the sailor shooting it and set the rigging on fire), and ends with a TC Contender in .600 H&H Nitro Express:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3opbFBEuZw0[/ame]
The part to watch for in this next one is the slow motion footage of a Gyrojet pistol being fired. The propellant is contained in the projectile (sort of like the original S&W Volcanic), with four angled jets in the base of the projectile providing the gyroscopic rotation to stabilize the round:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoD9zl-r_Fk&t=1s[/ame]
Jim
I though ya'll might enjoy seeing them.
This one begins with a Nock Volley gun (flintlock Brit naval weapon ca. 1805, all 7 barrels fire at once - tended to dislocate the shoulder of the sailor shooting it and set the rigging on fire), and ends with a TC Contender in .600 H&H Nitro Express:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3opbFBEuZw0[/ame]
The part to watch for in this next one is the slow motion footage of a Gyrojet pistol being fired. The propellant is contained in the projectile (sort of like the original S&W Volcanic), with four angled jets in the base of the projectile providing the gyroscopic rotation to stabilize the round:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoD9zl-r_Fk&t=1s[/ame]
Jim
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