Comments on: Testing the Gatling Gun https://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/testing-the-gatling-gun/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Johnny Abacus https://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/testing-the-gatling-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-1906079 Johnny Abacus Mon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:58 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36737#comment-1906079 “Ten drums, each holding 400 cartridges (making 4,000), were fired rapidly, occupying in actual time of firing ten minutes and forty-eight seconds.”

For reference, Todd Jarrett (a pro IPSC competitor) once shot 1000 rounds through a 1911 in the same amount of time (with the aid of a team of loaders).

Admittedly, he wasn’t concentrating much on aiming after the first few mags.

]]> By: Bert E. https://www.isegoria.net/2014/11/testing-the-gatling-gun/comment-page-1/#comment-1904738 Bert E. Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:10:45 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=36737#comment-1904738 100 picked soldiers against a Gatling gun. YES, the Gatling is superior. Tripod mounted and and even the same amount of rounds fired during the same time, accuracy of the gun is superior. Troops during the stress of combat their accuracy with the rifle even less than in a training or demonstration context.

Fouling of the Gatling gun a problem? Those weapons were still black powder and after firing a certain requisite amounts of rounds functioning of the weapon would become a problem?

Until recently you could buy a brand new brass Gatling gun for $30,000 USD. But the sole manufacturer has now retired?

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