The Puckle Gun: Repeating Firepower in 1718
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The Puckle Gun is probably best known as that thing that had round bullets for Christians and square bullets for Turks, but there is much more to it than just that (and in addition, the square bullet version was never actually built). James Puckle designed it in 1718 as a naval defensive weapon to help British vessels fight back against Ottoman pirates using fast and nimble small boats that could not be effectively engaged with large cannon. Puckle's gun was a 9-shot repeater of about 1.25" bore on a flexible swiveling mount which could easily track the fastest marauder.
The Puckle is basically a manual revolver, but its firing mechanism incorporates some clever functionality to allow a fast and smooth rate of fire. The gun was demonstrated in public in 1721 (after being turned down by the Royal Navy) and fired 63 shots in 7 minutes - quite the feat at that time! The only sale appears to have been a private purchase of two guns for an expedition to the West Indies, however.
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I still think if they’d advertised it as “you can shoot 9 Frenchmen a minute” they’d have sold a lot more
i'd buy ten!
Ten frenchmen?
@@kvakerbillduck9500 LOL!!
*i'll have your entire stock*
Exactly
"Ian, fetch the cubegat. There are Turks about."
cubegat hahahaha
I need to use cubegat in conversation
Damn the guy is angry about gallipoli and canakkake
In large British cities now more than necessary!! 😂😂
the best Solution if you want to make them running Circles
Hungarians and Serbs with glowing eyes:
-*I WILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK*
Greeks too
@@mehmeterenozulku1221 pretty much all of europe*
„Of square Bulletin“
@Bozkurt postuna bürünmüş yobaz AraB devesi uh, Hungarians wouldn’t need Austrians to force them to fight Turks, Turks occupied most of their country, they were fine with killing them.
@Bozkurt postuna bürünmüş yobaz AraB devesi Yeah? Tell me then, let’s see what you have to say.
"they have square bullets. SQUARE BULLETS"
i thought he was sarcastic, specially because he was looking so serious when saying it. I kept laughing and laughing and he didnt say that it was a joke which made it even funnier smh
Ever seen the hexagonal cannons? They're pretty sweet and a tech marvel for their time
i have found you
@@klad2860 NOOOOOOOO
They hurt more. 😂😂
Imagine breaking into someones house to steal their TV and you just see some guy at the top of the stairs with a Puckle gun
'I say old boy! Put those items back there where you pinched em will you?' - Guy with Puckle gun
whit square bullets! XD
>Buy musket for home defense
>Finally one night I hear a crash
>Dawn my powdered wig and petticoat
>musket is ready to fire
>my home surround sound is also primed and ready to play “the royal hussars”
>hit play
>”TALLEY HO LADS”
>run downstairs and into my living room
>two men are carrying my tv
>put a baseball sized hole in one
>The other attempts to drop my tv and run
>”AFFIX BAYONETS GENTLEMEN”
>charge after him
>Jam my bayonet into his anus as he tries to climb back through a broken window
>call police
>I have tea ready for them
I SAY, BE YE A CHRISTIAN OR BE YE A DIRTY TURK? SON! FETCH ME MY SQUARE BARREL! I'LL PUT THIS MISERABLE DEVIL OUT OF HIS MISERY! HO!
Psh pull out a m1911 and kills the homeowner with ease
When the Navy turned him down he should've started selling these to the Ottoman pirates
@daichai He could have become a pirate himself, killing two birds withe one stone!
If the Navies wouldn't even buy it, no chance in hell pirates are gonna buy it even if they worked for the Sultan himself.
He probably didn't like the Ottomans or even muslims that much, which is why he designed the gun that way.
Probably would have been chucked in the Tower of London for his troubles
I just discovered that he did ottomans had used them against Emirate of nejd
Man, the craftsmanship that goes into these pieces just blows my mind considering the era its coming from. It looks immaculate!
Eighteenth century English gunsmiths were highly regarded craftsmen.
In musket era the only way to get multi shot gun, is to have double barreled musket with 2 flintlocks. Ofc if you wanna achieve multi shot in non complicated way
You should have seen Jesus
Is this Puckle gun an actual gun manufactured in the 1700s or a modern copy?????
@@planethopper335 4:50 he explains it is part original and part reproduction.
We had a gunsmith here in the Pacific Northwest who made several of these after he’s saw one at the Tower of London. He brought them to several of our black powder events. They are a very interesting firearm to shot.
They had both guns on display at the tower when I was there in December of 1985. Bought a postcard featuring those on my way out and have been using it since then as a bookmark.
Any chance I can get contact info for said gunsmith if I were looking to commission one or three?
What amazes me most is that the gun is named after its inventor, yet it looks pretty much exactly as you'd imagine something called a "Puckle Gun" would look.
"Is he dead, Jim?"
"Yeah that guy's _PUCKLED_ "
So very puckled
There should be a name for that phenomenon, I feel like it happens all the time, where some random unique thing has the most perfect name by chance like that.
literally looks like the word puck
@@MadGunny Right? How else Is James Earl Toilet gonna get the credit he rightly deserves?
Ottomans: "Why would you do this?"
Puckle: "Because puck you!"
Phenian Oliver “Because puck you thats why!”
He probably called the square 'bullets' "pucks". Maybe that is where the term originated. :-) Puck you, TURKey!
Still hurts I presume :D
@The Defender What's your problem? You can puck right the puck off, puckhead.
@Piss Muffin She would always say "Don't!... Stop!... Don't!... Stop!... I could never tell what she puckin meant.
Don't
Stop
or
Don't stop. It is really pucking confusing.
Naaahhh... I knew what she meant.
As a Turk I must say, this is really hilarious and I am kind of honored. Great gun, it looks awesome.
Yep, take pride of the fact that your ancestors were scum of the earth for hundreds of years.
Kudos to the sense of humor 👍👍
Filthy humans of X region, we have a special for you!
- some warlord of every era
You're obviously no square.
...
Unlike the bullets designed for you :P
@@stevejohnson6593yeah… that’s about how it works.
Crazy how the chambers look like hollowpoint pistol bullets. It really makes the whole "cylinder" look like a speedloader
It looks like something from a century later.
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I am quite late to the comment if I must say myself, but it's nice to see you on other videos.
@@bobveinne2439 Yes
There's even something 40k-futuristic about engraving a rhyme on it.
@@Spookspek No aquila tho,
“Hey, you know cannons? “
“Yeah?”
“Ok and you know revolvers?”
“Yeah.”
“Ok, so hold that image in your mind, but get ready to spin it....”
Well we got revolver cannon like the M39 it's not to far fetch. That monster are use on jets and fire about 1000 20mm rounds per minute.
Smugly this pre dates revolvers by 120 years.
@@user-ro9zf9kz1h your English is Terrible 😂
@Jackie Tearie sorry English is not my first language. Could you please tell me which part need fix.
@@user-ro9zf9kz1h Don't worry, we can understand you well. With practice you'll become perfect. I've certainly seen worse English from native speakers, to the point that I couldn't understand them. If it helps, a grammatically better way to say what you said would be:
Well we have* got revolver cannons* like the M39, so it's not too* far fetched*. -That- Those* monsters* are used* on jets and fire about 1000 20mm rounds per minute.
"The second ammendment only applies to weapons from that era" ok then, I will have 20 puckle guns.
one for the right hand and one for the left hand, and the extras for the other sides of the ship and home.....
Good luck trying to reload them
10:10 The clip that everybody remember
LMAO 🤣🤣
Turk rounds and healthy friendly rounds
I had no idea flintlock tech reached this degree of sophistication. That's real life steampunk!
And before the usual steampunk time period too...
Look up the Ferguson Rifle and the Belton Flintlock.
Clock punk to be exact.
Take a look at his video on the "Collier Repeating Flintlock Revolvers". A century later, handheld, surprisingly similar, and the inspiration for the early-modern revolver.
Should be called the steam puckle gun
“Hey, you know how cannons suck?”
“Yeah, you can only fire them once before needing to reload”
“Yeah, but what if we just put like six mini cannons together, and made em spin”
“Genius dude”
"we gonna buy these and revolutionize warfare?"
"No."
@@marcpomaville9429 a thousand years later: Gau8 avenger
@@TheAsdffaaa *_BRRRRRT_*
@@TheAsdffaaa less than 300
@@TheAsdffaaa math 100
Beautifully made...and it looks so modern...more like about 1860 than 1718 in appearance.
This is the most beautifully engineered gun I have ever seen. A pleasure to see. "He did his math."
*Meth
I'm a Turk. I heard the first part of this and just went: "ah. Us again."
Yine biz :3
Well, it was mostly people from the Maghreb. Now, let's not forget that the British Empire itself was largely built upon piracy.
@@Macorian The British empire was largely quite benevolent unlike the Turkish rulers
@@theenglishman9596 To whom? Did you already forgot the fate of india? That was one major fuck up.
hahahaha
10:42 BFG division beat drops
I came here from that video
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If this level of machining was achieved in 1720 - I am speechless.
It was achieved in 1717 already
The "machining" as in manual craftsmanship itself is impressive. The problem was always going to be mass production and this weapon is way too complex and time-consuming to ever be anything but a rare niche weapon during the 1700's. Here's the main problem: This complex weapon was made by specialist gun smiths and cost a fortune. Why? Because it was all personal, manual labor. The age of industrialism only started in the 1760's and even then it mostly revolved around *textile manufacturing* and spinning machines. Those were powered either by a large water wheel in a river or early steam machines.
No, the real industrial revolution was the 2nd Industrial Revolution of the 1870's. You see at this time we saw a very important invention called *machine tooling* and the electric machine. The machine tooling is the "machining" you're thinking about.
Mass-produced cheap steel was also very important and there was none before the Bessemere process in the 1860's. Thanks to the electric machine and machine tooling you could now mass-produce previously complex and time-consuming larger and smaller parts with milling and lathe machines. You could also build giant factories (thanks to the cheap steel) anywhere. This is also when the population went from majorly working in agrarian trades (farms, crops etc) and work in industrial production.
But there were no milling and lathe machines powered by electric machines in the 1720's. Ergo the Puckle Gun was developed at a time there was no industry and no possibility to mass producing it. Every single complex part had to be cast or manually shaped with manual hand-tools.
In short. This was an industrial age design which unfortunately pre-dated the 2nd Industrial Revolution by some 150 years. So no level of "machining" at all.
Impressive piece of engineering especially for it’s time. I’m sure this would’ve have been a game changer if the British Navy and even the British Army implemented it.
Wilhelm Schikard invented the first mechanical binary calculator in 1623. Technology was a lot more advanced then most people give it credit for.
@Abu Hajar Al Bugatti are you saying that British, Swedish, and German tech has always been ahead...because that's simply not true.
@@amckittrick7951 It certainly has been for the past 500+ years.
@@ComicGladiator yeah, that I'd agree with that
There are approximately seven features that are beyond it's time by many decades.
Namely the fact that it has numerous rounds but without the several barrels and it’s severe weight
@@morganpriest7726
We have examples of matchlock revolving rifles with a single barrel dating back to at least the 15th century, that's not advanced at all.
CruelestChris 15th century?!
@@morganpriest7726
Yeah, the cylinder is a very early firearm innovation, it just wasn't really popular prior to the invention of the percussion cap because of a phenomenon called "row ignition" where the spark from the flash pan sets off more than one chamber at once.
@@CruelestChris "row ignition" was an issue even in the American Civil War with some of their revolving rifles. Though the term used then was "chain fire."
"9 rounds per minute."
Meanwhile in Assassin's Creed Rogue:
_BRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT_
Ishi 123 A10 today: *BRRRRRRT BRRRRRT BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTT BRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTT BRRRRRRRTTTTT BRRRRR BRRRRR*
Assassins: no you cant just betray us and do what you think is right
Shay: haha puckle gun go brrrrrrrttt
The Puckle gun is a primitive semi automatic weapon.
Assassin's creed Rogue: Did you say *M134?*
@@oj3774 shay: haha luck I manufacture myself
your comment is stupid and childish
i have never heard of anything so "what?" as square bullets. that is insane
This is seriously one of the coolest and most interestingly designed guns I've ever seen! And it's over 300 years old!
"Think how many soldiers you can buy for the price of one of these guns" was probably one of the reasons they didn't go with it.
It looks like a beautiful telescope.
He should add a sniper scope on it so it can be use as a small sniper cannon.
@@user-ro9zf9kz1h this is in the early 1700s. Scopes were not really a thing yet
@@danielaramburo7648 Or even a pistol type, It could be very usefull in close quarters. Just hold it in the general direction and than pu-pu-pum. It could have make those "line up"'s obsolete, where people would be rushing to get close in open fields. That would be interesting.
@T A euhm, sadly enough, yes that was precisely the logic in those days. Soldiers in the British Army held maybe 2 sets of practice shooting (and that was volley fire) a year, if they had any shooting experience at all before being sent to the battlefield. This was because the gunpowder, together with the musket, was seen as an accessory to the pike/bayonet-formation. It was only with the reforms of Frederick the Great the firearms horrible capacity was fully unleashed: under his reform, Prussian musketeers were drilled relentlessly, and mercilessly, to the point of perfection. A standard company of Prussian line-infantry was expected to fire AT LEAST 3 volleys a minute, and this was for greenhorns. Veterans got off up to 5 volleys a minute, which is... Completely insane, if you ask me, but it shows how much changed between 1718 and 1788. In Frederick the Great´s opinion the musket was clearly the deadliest weapon of all, capable of mowing down everything, from bears to armoured men, including their horses. So it was only to obvious to change the primary weapon from bayonet/pike to musket, and the bayonet-charge to finish off the job (if needed at all). And by 1798 a small Corsican general applied the same logic to the most powerful firearm he could find: Cannon, arranged into batteries instead of singular, fired by a battery commander/observer, firing volleys of death over many battlefields.
I believe this Corsican/French general lost only 8 out of 70 battles? :-)
just think of what a lovely grenade launcher this would make.
That's actually a genius design for the time! Basically a giant revolver.
Genius? He made it capable of firing square bullets. Which cannot be rifled.
Hey this comment is 2 years old, but what if Revolvers are actually just smaller Puckle guns?
@@Beefyrulz This reminds of the Russian/Soviet Nagant M 1895 where the cylinder moves forward to seal the chambers and which used the unique cartridge where the case extends over the bullet.
Don't be mean op is a boomer
@@anzaca1 Square bullets were for the (ahem) heathens.
Regarding the ad Ian reads at the beginning, "passes" and "places" actually rhymed in the English of the time - they both had the "a" sound "pass" still has today. This also applied to other words, like "plate", "fate", "face", "gate", "late", etc.
Thank you for today's old English lesson, seems like it's just the French a (you pronounce it "hey" in English but in French it's "ha") which would make sense as French was more popular back then in Europe than it is today
It would have been interesting to see this design with percussion cap ignition since it seems like the flint was the major hurdle
I have a concealed-carry Puckle Gun for self defense.
Ban assault Puckle guns!
dueling pistols
sex machine dont you have an combination aztec pyramid/trucker bar to go to.
Liesmith Lol i where mine in my trousers
Liesmith Lol
The words on the back of the gun is the most badass design choice I've seen. Bioshock-like almost.
"Defending King George, your country and laws
Is defending your selves and Protestant cause."
I agree, with an engraving like that I could totally see it featured in Bioshock Infinite.
Imagine this thing as a gun in bio shock 2.
@@skeltonslay8er781 You'd need to be a Big Daddy to carry it. 9 rounds a minute, though, you can melee faster than that. Probably rocket spears or anything from the grenade launcher would be more use against pirate skiffs, and quicker to fire.
Still that's the 1960s. Maybe the Puckle Gun will turn up in Bioshock 4. You'd fight people infected with mutated Bubonic Plague that gives them the ability to launch bees and shoot lightning from their fingers. At the end, you have to start the Great Fire Of London in a bakery, to wipe the plague out.
@@greenaum main character of Bioshock 2 is literally a Big Daddy
Engravings have no tactical advantage
Absolutely brilliant! What a beautiful mechanism.
Excellent ! A great deal of thanks to you for displaying this firearm .
Dude, as a 3D artist, this channel is a godsend. The closeups and the description of the firing mechanism is *excellent* reference material.
Nice
Yes
You can make cool weapons for arma3
Nice, now you can make cool weapons for arma3
As a 3D artist, I wonder if you could render a demonstration of the Puckle in action.
Puckle's design seems a sound one. No doubt it was an extremely expensive weapon for the time, but his suggested uses as an anti-piracy naval weapon and for the defence of strategic positions like bridges sound like sensible and well-informed applications of the technology he developed.
One possible factor in the commercial failure of the Puckle Gun that I've not seen discussed is that he was very unlucky in the historical moment he chose to begin promoting it. 1720 in England saw the peak of the 'South Sea Bubble' and its associated stock mania, during which assorted chancers and charlatans took advantage of an explosion of popular interest in the stock market to encourage people to buy into numerous crank business ideas, with the predictable results of the 'bubble' eventually bursting and thousands of people losing huge amounts of money.
The landmark non-fiction classic 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds' by Charles McKay (first published in 1841) contains a direct reference to the Puckle Gun being considered part of the 1720 Stock Mania- it briefly describes a series of satirical 'bubble' playing cards made at the time, including the following passage, which itself quotes one of the cards:
"One of the most famous bubbles was 'Puckle's Machine Company, 'for discharging round and square cannon balls and bullets, and making a total revolution in the art of war.' It's pretensions to public favour were thus summed up in the eight of spades:
"A rare invention to destroy the crowd
Of fools at home instead of fools abroad
Fear not, my friends, this terrible machine
They're only wounded who have shares therein."
A great many of the businesses promoted during the 1720 South Sea Bubble and stock mania were blatant, outright con jobs. 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions' even describes one that sold shares as "A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is," whose owner apparently sold several thousands of pounds worth of stock and then immediately fled the country. It seems possible that Puckle's gun was widely seen as just another of these scams, blinding many to the advantages of his design.
All this leaves me with the impression that had Puckle first attempted to promote his gun at almost any other time in history, he might have had a better chance of being taken seriously. If it weren't for that unfortunate historical coincidence, the revolver might well have become an established weapon of war a hundred years or more before Samuel Colt.
It's also noteworthy that Puckle's gun was described as a 'machine' back in the 1720's- whilst it might not match the modern definition of a 'machine gun', it was definitely considered a 'machine gun' at the time of manufacture.
that's actually fascinating. I had no idea about that little tidbit.
I will not say that you are necessarily wrong, but remember... he did actually secure funds for his company and managed to manufacture weapons. That may not even have been possible were it _not_ for that mania.
And mania or not, the navy _did_ try them and didn't like them. That could be because they were ultra-conservative idiots, that the prototype version they saw had some teething problem that poisoned their minds against the gun or that the test didn't allow for proper training in their use... but it could also be as simple as them first being intrigued, then looking at the price tag and then all simultaneously turning around, going "Ooopsi daisy, would you look at the time!?!"
I need to get a hold of that book, sounds like an interesting read.
Well said Chris Ball. To me ( what do i know lol ) this seems like a great weapon for the purposes he mention. However id only sold to one man ? Regardless of price, how come this weapon was not popular ? I know the Brits never cared about the price of there huge ships, whats wrong with a expensive new lil cannon ? Im just wondering how come this weapon never took off ?
The gun also had a severe problem with the slightest wind blowing the priming powder away causing a misfire. Many of the old flintlock designs had this flaw. The gun might have been successful if percussion cap firing was available.
Amazing piece of history, thank you for bringing this to us.
Your demonstrations are always very well done.
I don't know much about production methods of the time, but this thing looks like it was very expensive to produce in 1718..Or even 1818 for that matter.
Fredrik Häll Shit, looks like it'd be expensive to produce even now.
It was expensive! That's why almost nobody bought it :D The amount of brass...precission made parts, grinding,etc,etc.... This piece of art must have cost atleast "half a ship"
Not a cheap gun to make many of, thats for sure.
Probably why only a duke bought it, big, fancy, expensive. Nobility in a nutshell.
Ruben de Jong fun fact: the gun was hard to aim, had an poor flintlock mechanism and too to long to shoot
It sure looks badass though!
this thing is remarkable, looks like straight out of some steampunk fantasy but it actually was a thing.
It even pre-dates peak steam by some time.
Ya...
You could throw this into a steampunk setting and it wouldn't look out of place.
Maybe make it the equivalent of a MK. 19 though, since the typical Steampunk era has Maxims and Gatling guns.
This is so cool. Seems really ahead of its time, and has alot of design features that takes so much into consideration. Can tell alot of pride went into this.
This is the coolest gun I've ever seen. Super high quality and very neat and beautiful engineering
I believe the Death Star also had a problem with small craft, as its Turbo Lasers were too slow to track them. Perhaps some of these might've helped. Have a nice holliday, in whatever form it comes.
They did, but Lord Vader was told that the rebel fighters were too fast for the Turbo Lasers to track. It was an attempt at a comparative joke, which was apparently too slow to evade Turbo Lasers.
FlymanMS How'd that work out?
Bunnyshooter 223 Ha?
BurnThePope Tarkin specifically ordered all TIE fighters to stay in the docks. Just your clichee villain having a sudden rush of shit to the brain.
Funny how an Abrams of today can move a turret so fast that it'll break your leg if you're standing on the tank, but the turbo lasers can't track an X-wing.
Plasma injected lasers (or something like that) that can destroy an entire planet? Check.
Faster-than-light travel? Easy-peasy.
Basic hydraulic motor technology? Impossible!
"How big do you want the revolver?"
"Yes..."
Yes
Big brass
Y e s
Umm..okay what type of bullets?
S q u a r e
Never get tired of seeing this uninspired wit on every single TH-cam video.
BanyMany looks quite handy to me
Thanks for showing it, explaining how this thing works, and clearing up the common 'machine gun' misunderstanding!
Only a few sold?! I would have never believed it given how well known this gun is. Thanks for this great video.
There are two representations of this gun in media that I am aware of, both video games: Empire Total War and Assassin's Creed Rogue. In both games this thing essentially functions as a slow-firing low capacity machine gun. In reality, it seems to be more of a repeating swivel gun, that has to be manually reset after every shot. Still way ahead of its time in terms of capability but definitely not a pew pew machine. :P
The puckel guns on Empire! So many Mughals slain! Takes me back
While it say 1 year idk how long for it could be nearly 2 years old but there's also now the game Atlas which sees this weapon as a placable weapon on shoreline fortifications (just not vessels yet).
Hm the ones in Rogue seem to hVe been sped up an had larger cartridges instead of 9 you could have up to 24 shells.
@@lordwintertown8284 i could see them having innovated on the design and made better guns if they had adopted them and seen success
It's like an auto loader on a tank, but in field peice form then?
also in assassins creed IV blackflag
I would imagine ,if the magazine was loaded, the gun would balance perfectly.
Yeah, Karl. I contemplated the same, as one fires, one "lifts" the shoulder just a tad and compensates.
as you fire from a ship and your gun gets lighter it would self aim at your target if it's still coming closer lol
Ya good observation i agree
And people say the founding fathers couldn't even begin to imagine rapid fire weapons of today when they created the bill of rights
they couldn't. As impressive as this weapon is for its time, it's still severely slower than any modern automatic firearm. A submachin gun can hold 30 bullets and be reloaded in a matter of seconds, while also being lightweight and compact. The puckle gun not only takes really long to reload, it also requires priming powder and time to manually switch chambers.
@@melon4200 but they where still on track to create quick fire repeating weapons almost 100 years before 2nd amendment
Yeah, but I don’t think they’d ever imagine nuclear weapons being made.
@@MikhaelAhava not not talking about nuclear warheads. I'm talking about quick fire repeating weapons. A 14 year old could've bought 1 of these in 1718. I don't think they could imagine covid, mustard gas, microwaves, or a president that could use Twitter as a weapon.
@@melon4200
Kalthoff Repeater is 100 years older and could fire as fast as the US Army expects soldiers to fire aimed shots from an M16 in semi-auto.
The machining on this is fabulous
The Puckle Gun is probably balanced with the barrel horizontal, when all nine chambers of the cylinder are loaded with powder and ball.
Good point.
I HAVE TO KNOW! What is the Inscription say...I read ".....defending yourselves......"
"Defending king George, your country and laws, is defending your selves and the protestant cause" i think edit: yeah ian reads it out at the beginning of the video (missed it the first time around >< )
ralach I Heard that at the begging, but didn't realize the whole thing was Inscribed around the Rim of the Cylinder! Wow! Thanks Guys!
yea, they don't make'm like that anymore; esp for military spec. ;-)
If it was loaded it would probably balance better.
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Fantastic point.
I was thinking the same thing when he showed it was front heavy. I instantly realized it was balanced when loaded.
And like early airplanes (well, all airplanes, but it's more obvious in) 2-passenger tandem planes: you put the variable load (the passenger) right under the support. The lead ball/shot in the Puckle would be really close to the pivot point.
Perhaps it balances perfectly when half loaded. i.e. a little back heavy when fully loaded and a bit front heavy as we see it here, unloaded.
This is amazing - it looks like an extremely large caliber Gatling gun. I can’t believe this came out in 1718. Also, it might be the most Steampunk weapon I’ve ever seen….
That really is an amazing amount of machine work for that early of a repeating firearm and even more interesting that it used a flintlock firing mechanism.
"The second amendment never took rapid firing guns into account, all they had were single shot muskets!!"
Guns 60 years earlier:.....
Yea, but it'd kinda be like acquiring a Bofors cannon today.
@@argon7624 everyone should be able to own a bofors gun, if they have the money.
@@argon7624 completely legal during the founding Father era
@HalibetLector not doubting, but is there a link to this cause that’s funny af
@HalibetLector Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.* Not every founder supported The Federalist Papers. Many were opposed.
I imagine that checking the religion of your target before you decide what ammunition you needed to use was a rather awkward exchange...
"I say, good sir! By what religion do you place your faith in?"
"I do declare that I am Christian, my good fellow!"
"By Jove! Jolly good then! T'would appear that I shan't need to change the bore of my repeating Puckle firearm! I say, be a sport and stay right there while'st I rotate the chamber of my repeating Puckle firearm to a fresh projectile! For I plan to shoot at you post-haste!"
"My word! That is rather rude of you! Would you not you agree, old bean?"
BLAM!
Died @ "Old Bean" lmao
Whites get round, brown get square. Seems simple enough to me.
Goattacular Not all Middle Eastern people are brown. You should know this.
More like blam blam blam blam.
Considering this thing is over 300 years old at this point in time, that is some mighty impressive work!
Man this deserves more credit i think. Not a fast gun these days but back then, seems like he thought about everything for that gun.
Fun fact John Montagu was the earl of sandwich, yep the guy who invented the sandwich 🥪 (what a guy)
Wonder if he likes corners
*Square bullets intensify*
Well, you gotta spend them gambling earning somehow
I think someone would have invented that eventually
So I wonder why we don't have Montagus for lunch today
He probably didn't invent it, I've heard accounts of people putting other foods between slices of bread since the Romans, but he probably popularised it and gave it the name.
Putting a 3 cm big hole into a boat or person every 7 seconds and being able to do that 9 times must have been amazing in 1718. I imagine it would be even better balanced when it is loaded by the way.
Yupp, plus imagine going for square bullets
That looks like a really pretty piece of sculpture. So nice. Looks powerful too.
Fascinating lesson. This piece reminds me a little bit of an antique ship mounted weapon that resides on the grounds outside of Hamilton Hall on the grounds of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. Thank you for the brilliant presentation!
a breach loading light cannon.
in 1720.
BRITIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
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Probably wouldn't be too hard to convert it to fire pickles
A pickle Puckle
Aunt Bea's Kerosine Cucumbers!
Now it looks like a very serious, technical discussion went completely off the rails... really, a Puckle Pickle Powered Perpetrator??? ;^)
Gary Goodlund libtards will get their hands on this gun and try to make it fire Dildos rounds in the coming up civil war.
You should have a look at a video we’re this guy used a confetti cannon to make a gun that shoots 3D printed dicks.
Outstanding video ! THANK YOU !!!
For it's era and such limited production and (assuming) also limited testing, the mechanics of this thing are SURPRISINGLY well thought out
"A 1718 Puckle gun".
"Hey, just what you see, pal."
"Hey you can't do that"
[After a minute and a half of loading priming lining up bore with barrel and winding it into battery, then aiming]: "Wrong"
@@patrickharding4831 LOL
This was a brilliantly made weapon for the era, this is almost alien technology when compared to what they had.
Yeah this thing looks like it's from the 1800s rather than the early 1700s. I wonder if there were any more advanced guns made in between this and the Gatling gun.
the fafchamps machine gun
This basically uses the very first fully contained cartridges. Bullet, propellant and "primer" all ready to go but not only that, it was mechanised for speed without reloading after every shot. This is basically a revolver without the cylinder but EXACTLY the same concept and a shitload more powerful.
It has a cylinder. You swap out cylinders Clint Eastwood style (Pale Rider) instead of reloading the one cylinder when empty. *BGM.41
No, it wasn't. It was a simplistic weapon even at the time, look up the Kalthoff Repeater for a real marvel.
All the fine metal parts are so extremely well made!
The machining and precision fit of the parts is very impressive for that era.
This is actually my daily carry. It’s perfect for CCW.
Is that a puckle gun in your pocket...??
@@Poleson ... Or are you just happy to see me *shoots square load*
Saw one guy in Walmart. He was ankle carrying one.............
1911 ccw carriers be like:
For some reason I feel compelled to buy this and a brand new revolver, and show the advantages and disadvantages of older equipment.
That is a beautiful machine. Everything should be made from brass if you ask me.
mickeybill We'd have incredibly expensive, structurally unsound buildings. Would be a beautiful, yet incredibly scary world. Sounds intriguing.
Ok not everything. But brass decorations would be nice.
mickeybill how bout we brass plate steel instead of chrome plating it?
+Teddy Roosevelt the steel would corrode quickly because of galvanic corrosion
Another awesome video. As usual. Kudos
Very cool.
I'm guessing the barrel drooped because the chambers were empty. It was probably designed to be balanced when loaded.
#BlueBallManifesto
Either I’m far too high, or this is the most beautiful weapon ever made
nah bro we vibin, its beautiful
Why not both?
Lets put weed in it and light it with the striker and suck it out the barrel. We could get 9 people high per minute.
That would be the Aug
Don t worry, you re not too high. It is beautiful
“The founding fathers could never imagine repeating firearms in 1789.” Sure bro, sure.
Mointz Yes it’s ironic, that’s why I had quotes and the sarcastic sure bro, sure. The quote is what anti gunner say.
9 shots a minute versus 6000 from the modern mini gun...
@@davidc4983 And citizens who aren’t rich af cannot own miniguns, we’re fighting for the rights to own basic ass semi auto rifles. And that’s not the point, the point is people say all they knew were muskets. If they saw this thing from 80 years earlier, they could predict weapon advancement.
@@JohnW-yv6yp are we talking about the same people who, in their own lifetimes, would pass laws which prohibited loaded firearms in the home due to safety concerns? I'll grant you that the semi auto debate is fuckin retarded, but let's not pretend the founders were opposed to regulations either. I suspect if they thought about what firearms would like like in the future at all, they probably assumed, like the puckle gun, anything too dangerous would also be all but impossible for the common man to attain
@@davidc4983 You weren’t allowed to keep a musket loaded if you lived in town because the things were not as safe as modern firearms they could go off. They did not ban any firearms, there were new firearms being developed at the time.
The purpose of the 2nd amendment was so that people could fight the government, taking away all infantry type rifles is therefore counter logical.
Hands down, one of the coolest implements I've seen.
im cant believe the design of the gun, its amazingly simple and looks well made especially for a early firearm like this.
steampunk before steampunk was even alive
Can't wait for it to be dead again.
Charcoalpunk
@@theusher2893 Powderpunk
@EnglishXnXproud Steam punk was made by Gen X
@EnglishXnXproud OK boomer
I was amazed at how it cycles to the next round. What an amazing piece of engineering from the 18th century
And done by a lawyer no less.
What a really interesting early machine gun, yes I know it's not really, but you can see the evolution from just that, making weapons like that changed the whole style of warfare, great video.
Of all the cannons, this may be my favorite. Seeing those big old threads made me want to buy one of these and keep it in the shop as a vice.
Mr Puckle was a fine gentleman to have thought about them Turks!
He was likely alive when the Turks tried to take Vienna in 1683, no one in Europe liked the Turks at this point.
@@mrmoist9753 Yes. He was born in 1667.
@@Morgomirable I agree 100%!
@@Morgomirable im from Cyprus, Attila stole my house in Famagusta, now they want take our oil, they have no morals , they are looters and pillagers..
@@Morgomirable Owww you broke my heart.
Your words can be true for most of us. But my dear friend I assure you some of us very good guys.
As a Turk I don't like my race . We attacked almost everyone in our way.
But you have to know, not any race was that good as historians said or bad alike.
Steampu(n)ckle.
On a more serious note, I could see these things taking off if percussion caps had been available at the time.
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@@GabrielCarvv Congradulations, you earned the title of moron.
1776 only had muskets lmfaoooo im going to send this to people who say that
There is an even earlier version from 1339 called the Ribauldequin. Although it was more like a giant shotgun to use against infantry
@@gabrielgrimes8297 Ribauldequin used much more primitive way of amassing firepower though: increasing the number of barrels, which is not always the best idea due to the recoil, accuracy and reloading speed suffering greatly
amazing how well machined such an old gun is
I can just imagine a 1700's Rambo, wielding one of these in each hand! hahaa
How the he’ll wold he hold on
@@sleepinggolem4595 2nd guy would follow him, furiously cranking
Rambo with a powdered wig... I'm ok with that as long as it's badass.
Puckle Gun? Ah, great choice for *Home Defense*
9 rounds a minute?
Only need to shoot it once, they won't know it takes awhile to reload.
One look and "I'm out"
I'd bust across the room ♂️
If someone got hit with that size of a round, they would be tomato soup. You would have to scoop them up with a shovel.
@@kingheart9555
It should probably be seen more as a mini cannon.
Great video, learned something today.
Beautiful craftsmanship!
Fascinating. I can't believe they were doing that kind of metalwork that early. It looks like late 19th century. And the thinking behind it is quite advanced for the time. Looks like they might have been a bit more modern than we give credit for.
it's just that the history was changed a little and the dates were shifted. If they had told me that it was the end of the 19th century, then I would have believed it!
@@justforever96 It's a shock to him because he doesn't know his history.
@@justforever96 so only clocks? how did they machine them? with water power?
@@Blox117 water power and belts, then steam and belts. You'd have a central shaft then the machines could be looped onto it and gear ratio'd down to what was needed.
Belt turners from the 20's still do a decent job. Useable for real manufacturing today? No, but they were for back when they were made.
Cast steel not machined... there wasn't electricity lol
I'm sure every Empire Total War fan has been waiting for this.
Seymour Skinner Gotta leave the plains for some target practice
Seymour Skinner yes I have...
yes
Does that thing have extra dmg against Turks?
Ingenious design and function. Sweet!
What an amazing invention. I love inventions from this era .
Does anybody remember this from Empire Total War?
yeah
Jawohl
If you managed to lure your enemies (like cavalry) into the range of them and made all units fire at the same time, they'd absolutely shred anything very fast.
Jimmy De'Souza They were given too short a range to be effective presumably in an attempt to balance the game; unrealistically short if I remember correctly.
The game totally gave me the impression that they were more common than they actually were.
The engineering on this is extraordinary for the early 1700s... I kept asking myself if perhaps he really meant early 1800s, it just seems so unreal that such high levels of machining and metals were even in existence in 1718...
Amun Ra you mean late 1700s
@@justforever96 It was only like this in a tiny part of the world. Most peoples were still using swords, even besides their muskets at the time. Flintlocks were one shot pistols, not multi shot. This is incredibly advanced engineering for the time and most things didn't catch up until the 1800's. Watches existed, but they were for the upper echelons of upper class and society so for most people at the time, they didn't exist in society, they existed as a novelty you got to see from the richest and must influential people.
Look up Jaquet Droz writer automaton.
Dude it was 1719 not 1019
Awesome gun! Great presentation!
Can we just appreciate the puckle factor a ship would have, being equipped with these bad boys?