BTW one of the coolest things I ever worked on was this old 2 ga deck mount shotgun for a Maritime Museum... it was a breach loader and used to repel borders during the Spanish American War... never did get to test fire it though... it took an enormous cartridge and we just didn't have one...
If I can find the time... I might be able to drag up a Exploded view of the trigger assembly... get you some specs you can take to a machinist... but don't get your hopes up... there's not a lot of info on those old 4 bores and it's like their all one of a kind...
I appreciate that Dave, I have a big lathe, a CNC milling machine, a unimat jewlers lathe, and a miniture milling machine but my tool and die maker died and I can't afford to hire another one. And winter is gettinghere so I'll have a bit more time for shop puttering.
They might help.... but I warn you now... the Rifle Shoppe has horrible customer service... cant tell you how many times I've called them only to be put on hold until I just gave up and hung up or they just dont answer the damn phone... try these guys instead http://www.collectiblefirearms.com/
OK, thanks guys, you have now succeeded in pushing one of my roundtoits to the top of the pile inspite of my waning budget.
Make sure and get some video of it being fired. I've shot 50 BMG's and 458 WM's, but this brings it up to another level. Ouch!
You guys know you let GunKid go to soon... why I bet if he were here he'd have this old 4-bore fixed up in no time... might even add a few interesting mods too???
That my friend is a M242 25 mm Chain gun Typically they shoot the M919 Armor-Piercing, Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot With Tracer (APFSDS-T) hows that for a Kentucky squirrely rifle,,,,
Ahhhh---. Depleted uranium penetrator. Takes barking squirrels to a new level. Why chip the bark when you can take out the tree? I don't want one, 'cause if I had one, I'd leave nothing for the kids to burn up and all my preps would go into ammo for it. That said ---
Well if you were to prep for a Demon-nazi-ninja-zombie attack... this is the gun you want... Yeah I know, my wife wouldn't buy that line either...
Hell I was a Marine Corps Armorer and they wouldn't even let me touch one... seems the fellows who arm and maintain assault aircraft go to different schools than the rest of us.... Oh sure I had to order the parts... but you think they'd let me squeeze off a few practice rounds... you know, just to make sure it works... wasn't going to happen...\ sighs I get no
Sorry Grandpa but you are mistaken. That is a 30mm hughes. The rounds you are refering to are to the common 25mm bushmaster on the Bradleys.
pretty close, but the 25mm cartridge is much larger than the one for the M230 Hughes. the 30mm Cartridge isnt necked at all. and much shorter. I was a Bradley Section Commander in 4ID. the cool thing about the25mm isnt even the chaingun itself although it has been known to cause erections uppon firing, but rather the fire control systems. while using the Commanders independent viewer and gunners station, leading vehicles in the retical is not necessary, the computer matches the speed at which it is being tracked and computes the adjustments based off that and the range fed by the laser range finder. the computer also has ballistic data on the HE and AP rounds. the HE round is fired at a High tragectory slow round whereas the AP is shot at a straight high velocity path. at a 3000 meter target you can shoot a burst of HE, cycle over to AP and shoot another burst and the rounds will hit almost simultaniously... if your gunner is **** hot. See ya later zombies...
