Weapon: 14 Barrel Flintlock Rarity: Legendary Ammo: 70 (14 x 5) Musket Ball Damage: 100 (+50% modifier to Conspirators) Reload: 140 seconds Fire rate: 1 round every 5 seconds Price: Why would you ever sell this? "An antique. "With this alone, I'll Defend" is written on the top of the gun in gold damascene, an aura of magnificence radiates from the gun, you feel powerful just by looking at it"
I just realised - the fact that he had a loading tool and an alternate stock made for it indicates that he actually meant to shoot it a bunch. This isn't a wall display.
I am pretty sure he had a dream of sometime in the future, get two revolving clusters with a magazine-contraption added. This guy would make Arnold Schwarzenegger go do gardening.
What a flex. Imagine youre on that french hunting trip, and one of your mates is like "aww damn, i forgot me rifle", and then you just pull up like "hey, no worries. Take SEVEN OF MY FOURTEEN BARRELS"
@@jjdeepsea Two of those are for holding the ramrod. There's only one ramrod, but since you can dismount either barrel cluster and mount it onto the single stock, you're going to want to bring along the ramrod with it.
Volley guns were usually artillery pieces, though. For example the French had one with replaceable 25 round magazines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrailleuse
Good luck even GETTING a gun in most D&D games. "Guns don't belong in fantasy!" Yup, no guns in any Grimm bros. fairy tales. No guns in Warhammer Fantasy. The Steampunk genre doesn't exist. There aren't several D&D settings that are actually RENAISSANCE, not medieval. I'm not sarcastic or upset about this at all.
@@NieroshaiTheSable To be fair, steampunk is strictly speaking based on Victorian era technology. Trains, engines, electricity. Not exactly what most people think of when they hear "fantasy". When someone says D&D, they're probably thinking Forgotten Realms. When someone says fantasy, they're probably thinking Middle Earth. Medieval style settings that don't need technology because they have magic instead. Any setting can be turned into a fantasy setting by adding fantastical elements, so it's important to specify what kind of setting it's actually supposed to be beyond just "fantasy". Otherwise people will default into imagining one without any trace of remotely modern technology, because that's the most common.
Can confirm there is a "LA" before "VÉRITÉ", and an "A" at the end of "GAGNER", very shallow and not quite visible at first sight, making it "GAGNERA" which is the 3rd person singular future tense of the verb "gagner", "to win". So it literally means "the truth will win".
"Perdition to Conspirators" is surprisingly metal despite the archaic phrasing, especially when it adorns one of two seven-barrelled rifled volleygun assemblies on a beautiful monstrosity of a firearm.
@@ianfinrir8724 Perdition-a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death. So basically, kinda worse than death.
Just imagine the grudge to actually go, get up and commision a double trigger voley gun with an actual engraving that says: "Perdition to conspirators".
In gold damascene no less. Just the act of writing that massively increased the cost of the gun. A plain engraving would have been fairly cheap in comparison.
The imagination and ingenuity of some gunsmiths is just astonishing. If i had seen this in a movie, game or read about it in a novel I would dismiss it as pure fiction. Once again my perception of reality is tested.
yeah i thought the same when i saw the video about the flintlock machinegun if the politicians knew about that id say theyd just give up tryng to make stuff illegal or if not theyd want to try banning it too but you know i forgot they wabt every type of weapon banned which is literally anything cause anything can be weaponized if used in a certain way i mean just look at an atom bomb it takes the tiniest thing and causes the most destruction of any weapon we have today
There's some weird ass guns back then... Then again most of our guns wold be weird if the people from the past would see them. So I guess it's just a factor of perspective.
“hey uhh What is this used for Thomas” “uhh self defense” “But it says perdition to conspirators” *doom music starts playing*”to protect against mutiny”
@@mchagnon7 Please tell me you kept that. My brother ate at a Denny's where the bus boy had a tat that read "Fuck You All to Hell" Not quite the same thing.
I am starting to question the man handling that gun. I see it has been shot, and there is no damage to the gun, ergo it wasn't dropped. That guy must have been something of the size of a big black bear.
@@Ulvetann i would suspect you would use the vertical handle to hook on some wall, so most recoil will be taken by the wall EDIT: also i suspect that the powder would need some time to burn from barrel to barrel, so the recoil would be stretched in time a bit
I'd like to imagine the "spare" was actually the first design, and when he saw it he said "You're on the right track, but what about if I needed to shoot 14 people in a hurry?"
Is that where the phrase came from? Except you hold it in the air and yell, I've been Duped! and everyone cheers or says Ooohhh $h1t depending which side you're on.
@@matthewmeuleman3369 that is...objectively wrong on so many levels. No one ever gave a shit about the Boggomils to give them a slur in the english language, mainly because they never LIVED anywhere near an english speaking nation. The term buggery comes from a despective term for Bulgarian people.
I'd love to see the patterning of those barrel clusters at different ranges, it's probably a lot more effective than one would think. If the barrels were aligned right that thing would lay down one hell of a deadly shot pattern (it's essentially a shotgun with the accuracy of a rifle lol) out to surprising ranges I would imagine. Would also be cool to see slow motion footage of a shot into ballistic gel, close enough where the shot pattern matches the barrels. The shockwave interference would be awesome to see...
Volley guns were indeed produced at some point as a sort of "single shot shotgun" - dedicated to hunting. Six or seven small-caliber barrels loaded from the breech with something not unlike full-moon clips, and used as you would a shotgun... with the fact that it'll likely have far less spread due to the individual rifled barrels.
I assumed it was a visual indicator of spread so you could bracket a target (like a flock of ducks) before firing, but then I remembered the barrels were rifled and probably had a very tight grouping.
Soooooooo you found an english-speaking guy, apparently quite the francophile, and also interested in bizarre firearms. Did you just find 18th-century Ian?
Oh it is even better than that. Seems the "mutiny", which I'm sure in Thornton's eyes it was, consisted of him being forced to resign his commission after facing a court-martial instigated by fellow officers. The reason for this, during a muster at Roborough Camp near Plymouth his men pulled him around in his carriage while cheering for him. It seems Thornton put this incident down to jealousy on the part of the officers and a personal vendetta the Commander in Chief, the Duke of York, had against him. Now as for his being a Francophile, during the 1 year peace between Britain and France in 1802 he personally presented expensive pistols to one Napoleon Bonaparte, and it was during this time he made his "sporting trip through France" that he wrote about. The Napoleonic Wars started the next year but even before that ended he had returned to France on another sporting trip and as soon as the war ended he moved to France.
nah nah nah just imangin a ship having 20 of these cus if your in the heat of battle and you only techicnaly get 2 shots of 14 rounds you would honslty wanna chuck this to the side and grab your pistols or go hand to hand
That is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. I can absolutely understand why they probably wouldn't let Ian take it apart and do the barrel swap for us. Still, I'd have loved to see it. Truly gorgeous metal and woodwork Thanks for sharing this with us, Gun Jesus.
Stuff like this is what convinces me that the founding fathers totally would have had personal miniguns and full-auto thousand round assault rifles if the tech had been around. It was never question of "how much firepower is too much firepower?", but "how much firepower can I afford?"
Lewis and Clark took a Girardoni air rifle with them. This was an air gun used by the Austrian army (I think specifically the calvary) between 1780 to about 1820. The Girardoni looked like a normal flintlock rifle but could fire 16 to 20 before reloading. The problem was/is that you're never going to get the same amount of power with air that you can with gunpowder.
@@RobsRobotChannel He wants to say that the left barking "ah, now guns are too dangerous, if the founding fathers could see this they would not pass the 2A" is total nonsense bullsh!t
Machine gun: I can fire the most bullets, the fastest. 14 barrel flintlock: Peace was never a option. Minigun: Amateurs. The last part was inspired by: tohtori vanukas.
This gun feels like the physical manifestation of the phrase "violence is not the answer, is the language you use to answer the question, which often results in an yes"
Roborough is a place just north of the current city limit of Plymouth in Devon, as you go up the A386 onto Dartmoor. It's very close to Buckland Abbey, where Sir Francis Drake lived.
Ah yes,under the Pieper volley rifle someone asked:" why don't we make a double barrel version of it"? Now i see he wasn't the first one to think about it. Now i wonder if it can be made in 20 gauge.
I think the point of these guns is to fire a lot of small caliber bullets in approximately a circle, whereas anything bigger would run the risk of rupturing or being too heavy to handle
I need this gun in g&b Ideas to make it fit on the game better: Less damage, from 250 per bullet to 100 Reload time, 25s Because of the barrel, it has more accuracy Because of the grip, it has more accuracy
As beautiful as it is fearsome! Definitely one of those videos that just gets cooler the longer it goes on. By the time it got to the ‘speed loader’ and 7 barrel conversion stock, I knew this was going to be one of my favourites.
*Some one breaks into that guy's house. * "Come towards me brother. Say thy greetings to my miniature companion. I shall demonstrate my fire superiority."
The quality of that gun is exceptional. The second stock is so beautiful. This is a weapon that needs to be modeled into a game or something. What a fantastic piece.
This is just about the single coolest... thing that you've ever had on your channel. The ingenuity and the story make for an absolutely fascinating video. Cheers! "Perdition to Conspirators!"
"I say, old sports! Have you had quite enough yet, or shall I issue a second volley?" "That's quite alright, good sir! There were only nine of we highwaymen to begin with, and I'm afraid only myself and dear Archibald are left of the lot. The rest, I fear, have been put rather out of sorts. We'll just gather our kit and make another go of it on the morrow, shall we?" "Good show, my lads! Stiff upper lip, and all that. Better fortunes next time, ey wot? Chip chip!"
30 cal round balls are #1 buckshot. Assuming formed or cast projectiles it would be on par with a 7 pellet #1 buck load in a 20 gauge. Except since every barrel has rifling it may have better range? Ian, Any input on projectile weight or accuracy?
I wonder how much it would weight if he incorporated Chambers technology into this ? Wow 14 barrels 7 discharges per barrel . My shoulder aches just thinking about it
It's interesting how, today, you'll never see something with this much workmanship and personality with a company logo; a concept that possibly itself changed.
Consequence of endlessly chasing profits over absolutely everything else. No more room for passion, no more room for doing things proper, no more room for creative ventures for the sake of creativity alone.
Well mr gunsmith, i dont know what too tell you, i just don't feel safe after that mutiny. hmmm say Thorton, how many men are in your squad agian? oh... uhh 15 including me 𝙎𝘼𝙔 𝙉𝙊 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀
This is what happens when you have servants to load and clean your weapons. "Jethro is it ready yet?" "Almost mlord, almost...." "The conspirators are getting away!"
You missed a letter on the second stock, it's barely visible, but at the very end there is an "A". You can see it in the reflection at the very beginning of 6:53 (frame by frame is advised). What is written in French on the second stock is "LA VERITE GAGNERA" which would translate to "TRUTH WILL PREVAIL". Maybe another reference to the mutiny and the expression of the officer's bitterness towards the shade this event might have cast on his reputation ? Hard to know without more detail on his life.
The Colonel's arrived with a firing squad! 'But there are no other troops with him' Ahh... I see...better run and fetch the mops and buckets private...the conspirators have just booked one way tickets to Perdition!
In a related story, the US Army has recently expressed an interest in this highly modular, multi shot, interchangeable stock weapon with a vertical fore grip.
It's pronounced "Row-bruh" - Row like doe, bruh like duh - and it's in the most beautiful corner of the splendid county of Devon, in England. I'm not biased, but I grew up about 10 miles down the road from there; Roborough camp was up on the Down, just on the edge of the Moor. 🇬🇧🏴
sure , not biased at all 😊 . In the same way i am not biased when i say Jamaica is the most beautiful country in the world just because i am from Jamaica 😊
@@voiceofraisin3778 Judging by the low caliber and the fact that it's loaded with black powder, it probably doesn't kick much more than a .30-06. Don't take my word though, not an expert.
Ian, you nailed it again, with an exceptional firearm. Mildly bulky yes, but great workmanship. It is very fortunate, that the gun community has such a person as you, to educate us on the many varied pieces that man has made. Thank you for your time and knowledge.
"The founding fathers could've never imagined modern tactical rifles, only single shot flintlocks" Thomas Thornton: makes a 14-shot rifle with a tactical foregrip and speed loader in 1795
@Sheckie Shabang The Puckle is more like crew-served light artillery. There is no comparison between the Puckle and anything semiautomatic, or even early single-action revolvers, for thst matter. It was even more complicated to load and fire than cap-and-ball revolvers.
This dude straight up dropped a legendary weapon when he died.
Who ever found it must have serious RNG
Excellent comment
Weapon: 14 Barrel Flintlock
Rarity: Legendary
Ammo: 70 (14 x 5) Musket Ball
Damage: 100 (+50% modifier to Conspirators)
Reload: 140 seconds
Fire rate: 1 round every 5 seconds
Price: Why would you ever sell this?
"An antique. "With this alone, I'll Defend" is written on the top of the gun in gold damascene, an aura of magnificence radiates from the gun, you feel powerful just by looking at it"
@@duo496 And, if a BL gun, made by Jakobs.
The 14th horseman
'I am privy to thy thoughts sir, did I fire 13 times or 14 times, by my faith sir are you perchance feeling fortunate?'
Ha!
" Answer, poltroon!"
'Well...I implore thee ruffian.'
Does thou felst favored, knave?
Is that from "Feculent Harold"?
I just realised - the fact that he had a loading tool and an alternate stock made for it indicates that he actually meant to shoot it a bunch. This isn't a wall display.
I am pretty sure he had a dream of sometime in the future, get two revolving clusters with a magazine-contraption added. This guy would make Arnold Schwarzenegger go do gardening.
Mutineer: "Does anyone else hear 'Pumped Up Kicks'?"
@@davidrenton probably because there wasn't anyone left to mutiny
I think the video says he used it for hunting.
@@magmat0585 All the mutineers with the pumped up Hessians better flee better flee faster than my balls
"With this alone, I'll defend."
The most badass thing I've ever read on any weapon
The other mount said ' The victor is always right'
What is a bit more of douche thing to say on a 7 barrel gun.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
With this alone, I'll look like an idiot
@@Thy_Boss you don't need any props, whatsoever!👍
The Greeks used to carve "DEXAI" into the shot for their shepherd slings.
It means "CATCH".
Ever the witticists, the ancient Greeks.
SopMod cheek weld, Vertical grip, high capacity, interchangeable parts, tactical sights. The more things change the more they stay the same.
I would start cosplay steampunk, just to show off this gun. To hell with breaking -various- most laws...
@@Ulvetann What part in "shall not be infringed" do people not understand.
by "high capacity" do you mean 2 shots as opposed to one? yeah it has 14 barrels but it fires 7 at once
ban high capacity assault blunderbusses now
@@jameskazd9951 Fully semi automatic.
What a flex. Imagine youre on that french hunting trip, and one of your mates is like "aww damn, i forgot me rifle", and then you just pull up like "hey, no worries. Take SEVEN OF MY FOURTEEN BARRELS"
And people wonder where Americans get their gun culture
A double knock volley gun?
*knock knock*
"Who's there?"
No one anymore, they were turned to fine pink mist
"You should see the other guy."
You win the comments
This reminds me of a line from the sniper from tf2
*”EVERYTHING ABOVE YOUR HEAD IS GONNA TURN INTO A FINE RED MIST”*
Perfect backdrop for a nice cup of morning tea
@@isaiahcampbell488 we can't
High capacity✔️
Vertical Foregrip✔️
Multiple projectiles per trigger pull✔️
Rifling✔️
Ladies and gentlemen I present to you the first assault rifle.
But how many clips does this ghost gun fire per second?
@@scottski02 150
It's also select fire since you can pick which set of barrels you want to shoot, too!
Does this rifle require a bullet button?
I hate and love how this is technically correct. I'm torn, thank you! *sarcastically and otherwise*
Guy: Did you get him?
Gunman: My shoulder is dislocated and my elbow has been wrenched in directions that I did not even know existed, but I got him.
"Him and the three blighters next to him! Har har!"
Gunman: however i somehow shot my wife as well but she wasn't even near my target.
Whoever or whatever you shoot this at would be turned to Swiss cheese. Or a red mist
Even if he survived, he would die of lead poisoning soon.
dunno...but you can have whats left.
"Thomas, why do you need a 14 barrel rifle?"
"I must deliver perdition unto the conspirators"
why do you need 14 barrel?
because i couldn't make it 16 barrel.
one for each conspirator perhaps
For those who would question me.
Maybe I need glasses but I counted 16 barrels.
@@jjdeepsea Two of those are for holding the ramrod. There's only one ramrod, but since you can dismount either barrel cluster and mount it onto the single stock, you're going to want to bring along the ramrod with it.
I see ”more dakka” is an older concept than i thought
Volley guns were usually artillery pieces, though. For example the French had one with replaceable 25 round magazines. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrailleuse
wouldnt more dakka also apply by going from 1 Archer to a group of archers?
@@le_floofy_sniper_ducko yes
Its also british gun as warhammer coicidence? I think not!
Dakka is weed in south Africa
Imagine the thrill of loading the 14th barrel over 13 already loaded barrels.
This gun looks like something a D&D player would try to get past their DM.
And why shouldn't my gnome gun slinger with the dual wielder feat not duel wield two of these
Tell me about it
Good luck even GETTING a gun in most D&D games. "Guns don't belong in fantasy!" Yup, no guns in any Grimm bros. fairy tales. No guns in Warhammer Fantasy. The Steampunk genre doesn't exist. There aren't several D&D settings that are actually RENAISSANCE, not medieval. I'm not sarcastic or upset about this at all.
@@NieroshaiTheSable have you tried finding a renaissance module online? I'm sure plenty of people are tired of medieval fantasy
@@NieroshaiTheSable To be fair, steampunk is strictly speaking based on Victorian era technology. Trains, engines, electricity. Not exactly what most people think of when they hear "fantasy". When someone says D&D, they're probably thinking Forgotten Realms. When someone says fantasy, they're probably thinking Middle Earth. Medieval style settings that don't need technology because they have magic instead. Any setting can be turned into a fantasy setting by adding fantastical elements, so it's important to specify what kind of setting it's actually supposed to be beyond just "fantasy". Otherwise people will default into imagining one without any trace of remotely modern technology, because that's the most common.
This looks like one of those overpowered absurd guns you unlock after beating the campaign in a video game.
In the game Gun, you could find a Nock Volley Gun towards the end of the game.
The Albert Model
@Darth Paul You beat me to it. I was gonna say it would be great for RE4 Mercenaries
Every gun is a certain percentage "art" and a certain percentage "gun". this is about 90% art and about 10% gun, but boy is it a gun by itself.
I think this is closer to 1400% gun
1400% gun
100% art
@@michaelborough5932 What percentage concentrated power of will?
What
@@DannoHung All of them.
I think the French engraving might be "La vérité gagnera" with the last "a" being faded which would translate to "Truth will win"
Or in a more elegant phrasing : "The truth will prevail"
Can confirm there is a "LA" before "VÉRITÉ", and an "A" at the end of "GAGNER", very shallow and not quite visible at first sight, making it "GAGNERA" which is the 3rd person singular future tense of the verb "gagner", "to win".
So it literally means "the truth will win".
apparently based on some biography info his motto was "The Triumph of Truth".
Which is probably ANOTHER dig at his old militia unit. Dude clearly had some pent-up aggression.
Almost ironic that the inscription is fading away
Owned by Thomas "One Shoulder"
Thornton.
This gun open up for more witty and snarky comments than any other gun I have seen. I think. ^_^
"Perdition to Conspirators" is surprisingly metal despite the archaic phrasing, especially when it adorns one of two seven-barrelled rifled volleygun assemblies on a beautiful monstrosity of a firearm.
"Death To Traitors" would be a more modern version.
Actually, Thornton was the traitor. He was removed from command by other officers and court-maritaled out.
@@ianfinrir8724
Perdition-a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful and unpenitent person passes after death.
So basically, kinda worse than death.
Soldier: "these weapons are inaccurate and take too long to reload, how will you improve them?
Gunsmith: "more weapon"
Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.
@@isaakwelch3451 You're not using enough gun!
Well, reloading time isn't an issues if you only have to fire once.
more dakka
@@isaakwelch3451 guitar play*
Just imagine the grudge to actually go, get up and commision a double trigger voley gun with an actual engraving that says: "Perdition to conspirators".
The real question is, if you could fashion your wounded pride into a custom firearm... Wouldn't you?
@@Leisurelee53 Mine would have "karma is a bitch" engraved on it... :-D
In gold damascene no less. Just the act of writing that massively increased the cost of the gun. A plain engraving would have been fairly cheap in comparison.
Mike - vengeance: a dish best served cold with a price beyond the ability to pay with conventional means.
He was the original edgelord
"Remember, switching to your sidearm is faster than reloading"
could use it as an effective club in desperate times.
RUN IT AGAIN
How'd a muppet like you pass selection?
Raising kids to fight with you would be close...
They should add 7 more barrels
This is what I bring for the duel against the guy with a 13-barrel flintlock.
The imagination and ingenuity of some gunsmiths is just astonishing. If i had seen this in a movie, game or read about it in a novel I would dismiss it as pure fiction. Once again my perception of reality is tested.
yeah i thought the same when i saw the video about the flintlock machinegun if the politicians knew about that id say theyd just give up tryng to make stuff illegal or if not theyd want to try banning it too but you know i forgot they wabt every type of weapon banned which is literally anything cause anything can be weaponized if used in a certain way i mean just look at an atom bomb it takes the tiniest thing and causes the most destruction of any weapon we have today
It's an absolute masterpiece...the details, I just want to hold it!
There's some weird ass guns back then... Then again most of our guns wold be weird if the people from the past would see them. So I guess it's just a factor of perspective.
Guy just discovered a legendary dwarven masterwork.
All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality.
ROCK AND STONE!
@@MountainMemelord TO THE BONE!!
“This is my Rifle, there are not many like it but this one is mine.”
This is my rifle. As is this. And these 12 are mine too.
"All the rifles are mine."
@@tamasperci4168 Mine! My PRECIOUS!
@@AnimeSunglasses all your rifle are belong to me
@@HartyBiker
Also..."all your powder are belong to me"
“hey uhh What is this used for Thomas”
“uhh self defense”
“But it says perdition to conspirators”
*doom music starts playing*”to protect against mutiny”
Well I was directed here from the Doom Eternal soundtrack..
Ye olde BFG1
>BFG Division intensifies
This reminds me of the time I was cleaning out a homeless encampment and found a machete with "fuck you" written on the handle.
Marcel Chagnon holy crap dude
@@mchagnon7 Please tell me you kept that.
My brother ate at a Denny's where the bus boy had a tat that read "Fuck You All to Hell"
Not quite the same thing.
Can we all take a moment and admire the necessity for the "oh my god, this thing has a kick" handle on the forestock 😬
I am starting to question the man handling that gun. I see it has been shot, and there is no damage to the gun, ergo it wasn't dropped. That guy must have been something of the size of a big black bear.
@@Ulvetann i would suspect you would use the vertical handle to hook on some wall, so most recoil will be taken by the wall
EDIT: also i suspect that the powder would need some time to burn from barrel to barrel, so the recoil would be stretched in time a bit
I'd like to imagine the "spare" was actually the first design, and when he saw it he said "You're on the right track, but what about if I needed to shoot 14 people in a hurry?"
You'd be shooting 2 people 7 times each
@@jeremymcadam7400 or 1 person 14 times
@@jeremymcadam7400 not if the 14 conspirators are all tiny and stand very close to each other.
There's something oddly beautiful in the fact that a gun that is actually two guns was made by Dupe & Company.
Wasn't Duped in purchasing from Dupe.
Is that where the phrase came from? Except you hold it in the air and yell, I've been Duped! and everyone cheers or says Ooohhh $h1t depending which side you're on.
@@darthvaper7157 possibly, I know the term buggery comes from slandering the Boggomills religion in the middle ages
@@matthewmeuleman3369 that is...objectively wrong on so many levels. No one ever gave a shit about the Boggomils to give them a slur in the english language, mainly because they never LIVED anywhere near an english speaking nation. The term buggery comes from a despective term for Bulgarian people.
“Buying duped guns 4 keys”
"Perdition to Conspirator" is a cool name for a legendary weapon in a video game; "with this alone, I'll defend" is a cool flavor text
I'd love to see the patterning of those barrel clusters at different ranges, it's probably a lot more effective than one would think. If the barrels were aligned right that thing would lay down one hell of a deadly shot pattern (it's essentially a shotgun with the accuracy of a rifle lol) out to surprising ranges I would imagine. Would also be cool to see slow motion footage of a shot into ballistic gel, close enough where the shot pattern matches the barrels. The shockwave interference would be awesome to see...
The would buy modern breehloading version of this gun, especially if came with speed loaders.
Volley guns were indeed produced at some point as a sort of "single shot shotgun" - dedicated to hunting. Six or seven small-caliber barrels loaded from the breech with something not unlike full-moon clips, and used as you would a shotgun... with the fact that it'll likely have far less spread due to the individual rifled barrels.
Ahh, that's why there were sights on the barrels. They're for when it's been separated.
I assumed it was a visual indicator of spread so you could bracket a target (like a flock of ducks) before firing, but then I remembered the barrels were rifled and probably had a very tight grouping.
I wonder if it's possible to hot swap the barrels in the separated configuration...
Yeah. I'm gunna need you to go ahead and take this to the range. I REALLY want to see this working.
A foregrip in 1800. Tacticool before it was cool...
Fantastic stuff Ian, thank you!
Pretty sure it was actually necessary to even hold the gun
Soooooooo you found an english-speaking guy, apparently quite the francophile, and also interested in bizarre firearms.
Did you just find 18th-century Ian?
Nah, that was just his previous life.
Dullards, Gun Jesus is as immortal as Keanu! He just changes his name and location...
What a beautiful, beautiful gun. An amazing amount of craftsmanship, alongside an amazing amount of engineering. Absolutely gorgeous.
Me: I wonder why his men revolted
'...he was quite the Francophile.'
Ah.
Poor Frank ☹️
@@flyde6521lol
Oh it is even better than that.
Seems the "mutiny", which I'm sure in Thornton's eyes it was, consisted of him being forced to resign his commission after facing a court-martial instigated by fellow officers. The reason for this, during a muster at Roborough Camp near Plymouth his men pulled him around in his carriage while cheering for him. It seems Thornton put this incident down to jealousy on the part of the officers and a personal vendetta the Commander in Chief, the Duke of York, had against him.
Now as for his being a Francophile, during the 1 year peace between Britain and France in 1802 he personally presented expensive pistols to one Napoleon Bonaparte, and it was during this time he made his "sporting trip through France" that he wrote about. The Napoleonic Wars started the next year but even before that ended he had returned to France on another sporting trip and as soon as the war ended he moved to France.
Whats that
tristanbistan3 A Francophile is someone who really likes France and French culture.
"I say, old chap, I do think we shalt requireth more... dakka."
"I've lost my shoulders but it was worth it to perdition the conspirators"
Ash: "THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!"
Thomas: "Hold my ale tankard"
Instead of loading Sunday and shooting all week, you shoot on Sunday and reload all week.
it have a helping device
Shoot on Sunday and spend the next 6 months in ye olde traction
hahahhaah fuck it took me a secound to relize but that was a good one
nah nah nah just imangin a ship having 20 of these cus if your in the heat of battle and you only techicnaly get 2 shots of 14 rounds you would honslty wanna chuck this to the side and grab your pistols or go hand to hand
Only good comment in all of the replies thus far.
This rifle is absolutely amazing! I'm a fan of crazy overkill guns like this.
That is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. I can absolutely understand why they probably wouldn't let Ian take it apart and do the barrel swap for us. Still, I'd have loved to see it. Truly gorgeous metal and woodwork
Thanks for sharing this with us, Gun Jesus.
I'd like to see it fired!
@@petesheppard1709 Far too pretty to fire something like this. There are plenty of more generic nock volley guns
"Say hello to my little friend and his 13 brothers."
No I'll say hi to your little friend and his 13 brothers
@@alexanderfire9997 no I'll say hi to his little friend and his 13 brothers
Can you imagine the smokescreen that thing would create if they all were fired.
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Stuff like this is what convinces me that the founding fathers totally would have had personal miniguns and full-auto thousand round assault rifles if the tech had been around. It was never question of "how much firepower is too much firepower?", but "how much firepower can I afford?"
What kind of "revelation" is that? OF COURSE you're going to use the most powerful weapon you can... History was never affected by this...
Lewis and Clark took a Girardoni air rifle with them. This was an air gun used by the Austrian army (I think specifically the calvary) between 1780 to about 1820. The Girardoni looked like a normal flintlock rifle but could fire 16 to 20 before reloading. The problem was/is that you're never going to get the same amount of power with air that you can with gunpowder.
@@RobsRobotChannel Yeah, history was never affected by a bunch of radicals getting high-grade military weapons; Nope, never...
@@RobsRobotChannel He wants to say that the left barking "ah, now guns are too dangerous, if the founding fathers could see this they would not pass the 2A" is total nonsense bullsh!t
Exactly.
Machine gun: I can fire the most bullets, the fastest.
14 barrel flintlock: Peace was never a option.
Minigun: Amateurs.
The last part was inspired by: tohtori vanukas.
Minigun: amateurs
Metal Storm: Move over geezers. When my check clears I'm going to own all of you. Any day now.
@@bthsr7113 "I can see that you are only interested in the exceptionally rare"
@@vanukas8783 *14 barrel flintlock* "When I was your age...We didn't have them fancy shmancy whirly fairy barrels"
Reloading is never an option either! If it isn't dead after 14 shots you're gonna die.
"WITH THIS ALONE, I'll DEFEND". I want that on my gun
have someone engrave it then or do it yourself it wouldnt be hard
Yeah, but put it on a derringer.
Ja Kooistra put it on whatever you want cause this is america
RealArtUplifts who cares if it says defend or not i know the people enforce what they call "laws" dont
This gun feels like the physical manifestation of the phrase "violence is not the answer, is the language you use to answer the question, which often results in an yes"
Gotta love that tacticool flintlock frontgrip
Banned in CA for having assault rifle features.
@@USGiorgi Frak a magazine ban it's all those barrels that will kill you!
The improved version had a candle in it for illumination.
@@tfcooks
😂 LOL. You think Thornton did CQB drills in his chateau at night?
@@tfcooks
"Ye Olde Tactical Lamp"
That vertical front grip surprised me, I didn’t know they made grips like that back in the early 1800’s!🤔👍
banned in California
You'd think the founding fathers would have banned this assault weapon if they weren't child killers.
@@InexorWoW wait what
Roborough is a place just north of the current city limit of Plymouth in Devon, as you go up the A386 onto Dartmoor. It's very close to Buckland Abbey, where Sir Francis Drake lived.
*Soldiers revolt*
"I'm gonna need more barrels for this heresy."
Did someone say _heresy_ ?
_bolters, brothers_
@b1-battledroid669 which is better? This or a bolt pistol?
@@gabrielc7861 Bolt Pistol, because it’s been blessed by the Emperor
Ah yes,under the Pieper volley rifle someone asked:" why don't we make a double barrel version of it"?
Now i see he wasn't the first one to think about it.
Now i wonder if it can be made in 20 gauge.
🤐 On your shoulder be it 💥😫
I think the point of these guns is to fire a lot of small caliber bullets in approximately a circle, whereas anything bigger would run the risk of rupturing or being too heavy to handle
This is in squirrel rifle caliber. A modern equivalent would actually be .22lr. 20 ga would be unmanageable.
@@jeffreyroot6300 he said it was roughly .30 cal. You must have some monster rodents if that's your squirrel gun lol
There is no kill like overkill.
I need this gun in g&b
Ideas to make it fit on the game better:
Less damage, from 250 per bullet to 100
Reload time, 25s
Because of the barrel, it has more accuracy
Because of the grip, it has more accuracy
There is a period action movie waiting to be made with that gun.
The movie is 3 hours. The gun is fired twice during that time.
@@gregerylundquist1127 Nah. He is more into smashing guitars. ^_^ Even he wouldn't dare smash this one.
As beautiful as it is fearsome!
Definitely one of those videos that just gets cooler the longer it goes on. By the time it got to the ‘speed loader’ and 7 barrel conversion stock, I knew this was going to be one of my favourites.
You can even tell how the barrels were forge welded. This thing is awesome.
Good Lord that's arousingly British.
“ Crumpet Cannon “ or “ Tea Howitzer “ decisions , decisions...
Bigger and better in the USA. Up your sceptics LOL.
Arousingly..... okaaaaay
*atrousiusly British
@@zachhogan7865 🤦♂️ atrociously, perchance? FFS
*Some one breaks into that guy's house. *
"Come towards me brother. Say thy greetings to my miniature companion. I shall demonstrate my fire superiority."
in the words of Jörg Sprave:
"Let me show thee its features! Ha ha ha ha"
@@Locahaskatexu *With each "ha" corresponding with his automatic crossbow rate of fire. *
@@Locahaskatexu LOL, I read that in My head in his voice.
That's funny, but you got a little mixed up. "Thee" would be "you", and "thy" would be "your".
@@christopherdean1326 Damn.
The quality of that gun is exceptional. The second stock is so beautiful. This is a weapon that needs to be modeled into a game or something. What a fantastic piece.
Sharpe knows what he's getting Harper for Christmas
*Irish Intensifies*
Dang, I made almost the exact same comment before I realized you beat me to it.
That's soldering
A Sharpe comment. Now that is ripe, don't you find it ripe?
And Harper's first comment on seeing it. "God save Ireland!".
This is just about the single coolest... thing that you've ever had on your channel. The ingenuity and the story make for an absolutely fascinating video. Cheers! "Perdition to Conspirators!"
"Do you want 15 barrels on the gun?"
"Are you crazy? That is overkill.... make it 14 barrels"
"I say, old sports! Have you had quite enough yet, or shall I issue a second volley?"
"That's quite alright, good sir! There were only nine of we highwaymen to begin with, and I'm afraid only myself and dear Archibald are left of the lot. The rest, I fear, have been put rather out of sorts. We'll just gather our kit and make another go of it on the morrow, shall we?"
"Good show, my lads! Stiff upper lip, and all that. Better fortunes next time, ey wot? Chip chip!"
Pip pip, cheerio!
Oh... perhaps bring fourteen or so aqantinces or so as not to prematurely retire of this sport. Great fun, what!
Tea good sir?
Puckle: *makes “machine gun”*
This guy: “hold my tea”
14 barrel puckle gun, for when the pigeons really start to annoy you.
Tremors 4.
Punt gun.
30 cal round balls are #1 buckshot. Assuming formed or cast projectiles it would be on par with a 7 pellet #1 buck load in a 20 gauge. Except since every barrel has rifling it may have better range? Ian, Any input on projectile weight or accuracy?
I wonder how much it would weight if he incorporated Chambers technology into this ? Wow 14 barrels 7 discharges per barrel . My shoulder aches just thinking about it
@Paul Alexander Hence, "long range shotgun"
This reminds me of a multiple barrel flint lock pistol my grandfather had on his wall
"Give up, scoundrel, 14 barrels are aimed at you!"
"But you are alone!"
"What?"
"What??"
its always interesting to see these volley rifle, such a weird design that kind of actually went somewhere
Steve Campbell It’s a volley gun rifle, effective at much greater ranges.
It's interesting how, today, you'll never see something with this much workmanship and personality with a company logo; a concept that possibly itself changed.
Consequence of endlessly chasing profits over absolutely everything else. No more room for passion, no more room for doing things proper, no more room for creative ventures for the sake of creativity alone.
I doubt that I've ever seen a labor of this caliber so well wrought.
Well mr gunsmith, i dont know what too tell you, i just don't feel safe after that mutiny.
hmmm say Thorton, how many men are in your squad agian?
oh... uhh 15 including me
𝙎𝘼𝙔 𝙉𝙊 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀
"Now THAT is MODULAR!" Pentagon starts calling from all lines.
When you're the planetary governor of an agriworld, and the PDF revolts, so you decide to fend off the tyranid swarms by yourself.
They dont have the money to do that
Praise the Omnissiah!
YA GIT, ER'NEEDS MOAR DAKKA.
@@thomasbecker9676 One who owns that gun, or one like it.
@@thomasbecker9676 DA EMPRAHS GREEEENST BOYS WI'LL DO ER FIGHTIN!
Wait, let me guess: there were 14 mutineers.
A well crafted piece that truly understood that we needed more dakka
14-Barrel Flintlock. When Terminator was teleported in Liege , 1795.
I wonder how many Victorian Gentlemen fell for the "I bet you are far to dandy to fire all 14 barrels at once" comment.
Awesome workmanship
This is what happens when you have servants to load and clean your weapons.
"Jethro is it ready yet?"
"Almost mlord, almost...."
"The conspirators are getting away!"
It's probably one of the servants who invented the double barrel blunderbuss.
Or
"Bartholomew is my iron slinger ready yet?"
"No your majesty, not yet"
"Their almost into the kings chambers"
You missed a letter on the second stock, it's barely visible, but at the very end there is an "A". You can see it in the reflection at the very beginning of 6:53 (frame by frame is advised).
What is written in French on the second stock is "LA VERITE GAGNERA" which would translate to "TRUTH WILL PREVAIL".
Maybe another reference to the mutiny and the expression of the officer's bitterness towards the shade this event might have cast on his reputation ? Hard to know without more detail on his life.
The shoulder: Hey... What are we going to shoot with? I hope it's some handgu-
Person: *14 barrel musket.*
The Colonel's arrived with a firing squad!
'But there are no other troops with him'
Ahh... I see...better run and fetch the mops and buckets private...the conspirators have just booked one way tickets to Perdition!
"I've got 14 barrels, seven for each of ya"
I think that's how that scene went
Thank you!
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My favourite western good ole doc holiday
In a related story, the US Army has recently expressed an interest in this highly modular, multi shot, interchangeable stock weapon with a vertical fore grip.
That is truly incredible and an amazing example of craftsmanship. I’m going out on a limb and thinking I’m 99.9% sure I can’t afford it.
This would probably fetch as much as a house if it were ever to go to auction.
It seems to be one of a kind so pretty sure nobody can afford it
@@Orcinus24x5 Probably a large house in downtown LA.
Me neither.
Speaking of limbs, it costs an arm and a leg, the leg to purchase, the arm being removed upon first firing.
Front grip? Clearly an assault weapon. On second thought, the fourteen Barrels could have been a hint.
It's like a shotgun that fires regular rounds.
they should add this in guts and blackpowder
"14 barrel shotgun"
[Doom Slayer would like to know your location.]
this is the first doom slayer comment i've seen when looking at the comments, good work
Well he is gonna frustated when he's about to reload
@@Marvin_Ave true
@@Marvin_Ave 4:48
@@Marvin_Ave Tis but an inconvenience!
"Bobby give me double barrel "
"Don t move, i have better"
😄😄😄
God, I love older firearms design. It really was an art back then.
It's pronounced "Row-bruh" - Row like doe, bruh like duh - and it's in the most beautiful corner of the splendid county of Devon, in England. I'm not biased, but I grew up about 10 miles down the road from there; Roborough camp was up on the Down, just on the edge of the Moor. 🇬🇧🏴
so he was keeping the Cornish out then? :-)
I'm from just down the road from there that's cool 😎
@@stardawg9964 Don't go down to the woods today! :-)
sure , not biased at all 😊 . In the same way i am not biased when i say Jamaica is the most beautiful country in the world just because i am from Jamaica 😊
Bruh
I really want to see the cloud of smoke that results from both sets of barrels being fired in quick succession.
Where'd everybody go??
Considering the recoil of that thing you're leaving backwards like Wile E. Coyote, probably leaving your shoes behind for added comedy value.
A smoke screen for concealment as you reload!
He was English, it would have been no more than an instant fog bank.
@@voiceofraisin3778 Judging by the low caliber and the fact that it's loaded with black powder, it probably doesn't kick much more than a .30-06. Don't take my word though, not an expert.
Miha Strajnar I agree, but would love to test it!
Ian, you nailed it again, with an exceptional firearm.
Mildly bulky yes, but great workmanship.
It is very fortunate, that the gun community has such a person as you, to educate us on the many varied pieces that man has made.
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
"I say, lads," the mutineer shouted to his thirteen bloodied and perforated comrades, "we've been Duped!"
"The founding fathers could've never imagined modern tactical rifles, only single shot flintlocks"
Thomas Thornton: makes a 14-shot rifle with a tactical foregrip and speed loader in 1795
And a quickish change barrel.
14 shot yes, but only fired twice
arguing about modern gun control laws based on the opinions of people 250 years dead seems like a bad idea tho
@@aluminiumsandworm the typical approach to gun control in the us has been based upon aesthetic as opposed to function.
@Sheckie Shabang The Puckle is more like crew-served light artillery. There is no comparison between the Puckle and anything semiautomatic, or even early single-action revolvers, for thst matter. It was even more complicated to load and fire than cap-and-ball revolvers.
@@badwrench13 How about the chambers machinegun?
Ian, your videos are a bright spot in my day. Thank you so much for all that you do!
Tactical barrel upgrade(s), tactical frontgrip, tactical reloading....The maker of this gun must've played Fallout.
He played with his candle lit display, and hand carved controller...
@@wolfangel6883 to which I assume the controller had a dozen thumbsticks
It was the hand crank button velociopusher that separated it from the other hand carved controllers, that and the ornate gilt lettering
Imagine looking at the Nock gun and thinking, "Nah, not big enough."
the details on this gun are spectacular