Belgian .75 Caliber Percussion Wall Gun 

I live in Australia. This IS what I'd consider a home defence rifle. Have you seen the size of them Emus? :P

@@Assdafflabaff I know, right....

ALL HISTORY IS A LIE!!! The dinosaurs were alive along with ancient man, and the Giant, and Nephilim races of old, b4 the flood of Noah. This would be good for smashing bigfoot or a dogman....... maybe.......

@Djomo Khanasante It couldn't be ANYTHING BUT, friend, but im sure you are a good shot and firing from a stable platform, the secret is though Brother (honest to God it is,) you have to pin these things down in large spike or bear type traps! Their strength and speed are their greatest attributes, take that away from them and pin them down, they will die with enough of your well placed head shots Sir!....... Pinning them down, now there's the trick...... Use screw stakes too....they stay put under a lot more stress, and make sure you camo those traps well. Like fake flower bushes kinda shit, with the trap under it, and obviously in an area they are walking around. Works well around the outside of a house they are messing with, but once you pin it down, you must dispatch it post haste immediately, chop it up, and throw the small parts ALL over the area....... apparently it keeps them away, say the most creditable source I've heard. i encountered 2 8 or 9 foot tall dogmen in a cornfield one night Oct.2016, and was with 3 buddies at the time as well....... one of the worst nights of my life ill tell ya....... so they are real...... I swear to God!

I was just imagining being up kn my roof with one lol great minds think alike.

After firing, you could also throw that breech block to end your opponent rightly.

If you had a few extra blocks, others could reload and swap them out as the shooter concentrates on targets.

​@@alphagt62considering this was meant to be used in place, you might be able to do that.

Let tho snipe

Ye olde anti matirielle fire armament shalt reduct thou into a mere pilliar of salt.

THINE SHALT NOT PUTTETH THINE YE OLDE BARRETT'S BARRELE IN FRONTE OF THINE MOUTHE IF THOU SHALT PULLETH THINE TRIGGER OF THINE YE OLDE BARRETT, PREPARETH THINE TO BE 'SPLODED TO TINY BITS, IN THE LORD'S MERCY Armaments Chapter 2:1-3

@Norris Jinglewilly FROM THE LENGTH WHICH GOD HATH SITTETH ON HIS THRONE THOU SHALT BE SHOT

8:11

Best computer games ever.

I've had that experience but I already unlocked the nukes and the rest of the world are still in the 1700s

Anti-horse gun

Z M 2 of them. One for each shoulder.

Z M It might've been a crew-served weapon. One guy shooting, one guy loading the gun and maybe a guy keeping the breech blocks full?

plus a medic...

@@UnknownGamer40464 it's a mounted gun. Should have very little recoil if any

With this thing I don't think you'll ever need a second shot unless you miss

"Brother-Captain, I have recovered an Archeo-tech Bolter!" "Excellent, alert the Techmarine to prepare the proper blessings!"

but sadly not enough boom boom I would not want to be facing of a a hive swarm with this thing

White Noise revived - MY FACE IS MY SHIELD!

Needs more dakka

Dougie Kiernan THERE IS NEVER ENOUGH DAKKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very practical indeed

just needs a shortened barrel and youre set

LMAO!

I conceal carry a t72

This is part of my EDC. I just use it with a pair of stilts.

Belgian Fort Gong

After firing, you could also throw that breech block to end your opponent rightly.

The original caseless ammunition.

Oh the black powder days, the revolvers were kind of cool though

Two or three breach blocks one to load them and one for shooting?

FreakinLoserTV, great so every semi auto pistol.. That's not the way msm portrays it...

that is not an assault weapon. all assault weapons are black. the color must make them more powerful.

@WrathMachine - the assault style drum mags are heavier and if you drop one on your foot you will get a boo boo and have to spend a week in your safe space because of PTSD.

"Assault weapon" is a made up term. There is no such thing as an assault rifle or pistol. It's something anti-second amendment assholes came up with to make guns sound more scary. There is no classification for what makes an "assault weapon" and no one can agree on what it is. So it doesn't exist. Please leave.

Julius Caesar the Great bruh chill everybody here is aware of that and that’s exactly what they were making fun of lmao

That's what the pistol grip reminded me of. Also, the sten gun comes to mind, seeing as it's made of bent steel bar.

Big friendly giant?

Owen Major A big f*cking gun.

Saldytuwas ever seen the punt gun?

You're looking at it the wrong way, it's not a BFG it's a small CANNON.

Why? ..... the guy probably will never know he got hit ..... he simply stops living almost instantly or is rendered unconscious prior to dying by the trauma (unless it "only" takes of one of his limbs). Pity his mates who witnessed the guy being reduced to mush.

You should also have some sympathy for the soldier who had to carry it

they weren't carried, they were wall guns

Hi Karine

hiya

RealLuckless I was thinking the same thing. With multiple fitted chambers this rifle would have been devastating on the battlefield in its era.

Probably rather devastating to shoulders as well. Another entry on here that I kind of want a reproduction of to go out and have fun with. They probably do an interesting number on a pumpkin.

@@RealLuckless The wall that the pin is mounted in takes the recoil.

Marvin De Bot 1 second ago I'd say so. three blocks, a couple of men and say 6 rounds a minute shouldn't be difficult? The system had been used in small bore artillery for several hundred years before this, cannon with a bore of an inch and a half to two inches, mainly German and Austrian. Of course in those the ball was also loaded into the removable breech block.

After firing, you could also throw that breech block to end your opponent rightly.

All guns are technically small bore canons with triggers.

richard343s Not quite: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_mm_caliber

The term you're looking for is firearm. Any weapon that fires a projectile through a tube via some form of propellant can be considered a gun. That includes cannons.

exactly,during the napoleonic era onwards its very common for artillery to be referred to as guns. cannons, howitzers, mortars, all called guns from what i understand

@@richard343s technically its 15mm bullet to be a cannon

W1se0ldg33zer The Barrett is just a materiel rifle. The lapua is a sniper rifle.

>the Barrett is just a materiel rifle *_*mumble mumble_** longest-distance confirmed kills... *_*mumble mumble_** shooting a radio tower at 1500yds...

A. Lampman Is a radio tower what would be called "materiel"?

Edit In November 2009, British Army sniper Corporal of Horse (CoH) Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, set the current record for longest recorded sniper kill by killing two Taliban machine gunners consecutively south of Musa Qala in Helmand Province in Afghanistan at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd) using a L115A3 Long Range Rifle.[7][8][9][10] In the reports CoH Harrison mentions the environmental conditions were perfect for long range shooting: no wind, mild weather, clear visibility.[11]

They used the Barrett as a sniper rifle. - does that make you happy? I don't care if it's a potato.

Has Belgian engineering gone too far?

Me as a Belgian reading this: “For f*ck sake!” 😅

Did you skip breakfast?

@@ianfinrir8724 yes.

I would do the other way around. 2 men loading and 1 shooting the gun.

Nah - because all the extra person would be doing is loading the powder charges - that would be super fast, the shooter would still be packing the ball which would be slower.

readyrepairs that was my first thought. would allow for somewhat rapid fire, especially in a defensive role.

Possible, but I'm going to guess much like "fast reloads" with spare cap and ball revolver cylinders, it was never actually done.

Too bad the designers didn't have enough foresight to have the projectile to be put in the block instead of the barrel, would make for even faster reloading

😂 BRO STOP IM DYING

That's exactly what people would do when hunting big game, and many of these rifles were used for that purpose if they felt other heavy guns wouldn't take down a Rhino or other beast.

With this weapon you have a second anus has an elephant.

joseph crosby mecham Google heart shaped rifling and you'll see a shot of a muzzle like that.

There's a difference between "Whitworth-style hexagonal rifling" and "polygonal rifling". Typically, polygonal rifling only refers to rifling that is mostly traditional, but with more or less rounded edges between the lands and the grooves (actually, being curved they are instead referred to as "hills and valleys"). It is designed to obdurate the round the same way conventional rifling does. The Whitworth rifle (and, evidently, this gun) took it a step by shaping the interior of the barrel as a hexagon with almost sharp edges. The lands are flat, rather than curved hills. It will only accept hexagonal, non-obturating bullets I don't know how someone would even begin to design a round to obdurate into that.

+1. Hate that I always have to pause the video and googleconvert how much xxx or yyy is in metric.

Elefant is norsu in finska?

VicariousReality7 yes.

VicariousReality7 Yep.

Approximately 454 grams in a pound and exactly 2.54 cm per inch. Easy conversion. He's in the US, why should he bother doing the conversions for you? When I go to Europe, I don't expect them to convert things for me. Where things get a bit strange though is in the UK where they use a different size gallon than we use in the US. Not that it really makes much different except in the case of beer being sold by the "pint" and their pints being 20 oz and the ounces being slightly different in size. As such, I much prefer drinking beer in British customary beer drinking units. :)

Once? Oh, sure. You can do *anything* once.

For taking down really jacked dudes.

Weight reduction? Perhaps you can place a piece of wood in there and hit it with a hammer in case the block gets jammed?

nah.. i'm referring to the four 'black lines' in the side of block that faces barrel

altair1983 tool marks for a jig when they were boring the hole into the block? I noticed those too and wondered what they could be. It'd be interesting to hit it with calipers and see if the end points of each line are equidistant from some edges or points.

It could also be a little space for some form of sealing grease. Remember that this is a black powder rifle and that it does not form a complete gas seal between the chamber block and the barrel. Perhaps a blob of grease was smeared on the end of the block during reloading. Those grooves could be a place for the grease to catch and hold on to during firing.

Most likely they are reliefs cut to prevent the face of the breech block from "sticking" to the barrel face. Closely fit (lapped) parallel steel parts will tend to stay stuck together once assembled (have a machinist do the trick with a good set of gauge blocks; once set against one-another you have to twist them to get them to separate). It's the same reason why the breech is open at the bottom.

You'd just cast the bullets

It's no more or less sophisticated than modern two stage projectiles where you'd have your shell/sabot and dart, and a bag of propellant behind it.

Yeah, but hexagonal casts? Would have to create my own.

That seems like an even better idea than creating a mold to pour hexagonal bullets in it. Damn - this thing could be a modern rifle ... almost ... in short order.

Loading the slug was separate, so plug, drop, and lock.

champimuros look up tanegashima muskets. they were the insperation to princess mononoke. Only difference is that in the movie they mounted them on their shoulder like an rpg. Which is freakin awsome. Someone needs to make those.

leo alifi Wow, thanks! Now I want one :O

leo alifi It was an arquebus, though, not a musket.

leo alifi if i am not wrong they were a type calles ishibiya

Stop

Not an expert, but hexagonal bullets wouldn't work very well with any bolt action or automatic weapon designs, would they? You need to put the bullet in the right orientation for it to work, which would need a special feed/ magazine design. Even a simple single-shot rifle like a remington rolling block would be much harder to reload if you had to pay attention to bullet orientation

As this was used in a fortification where the weight of the accessories doesn´t matter too much and personnel for reloading the blocks was available, I guess there were additional ones. Around 5 or so should work for continous firing.

Probably, but I don't think that they had the tecnology to make every breach block identichal and I guess that they weren't mass produced...

In 1866 they had the technology. Look at all the mass produced firearms of that era. The wall guns weren´t, right, but they very well could have been.

I know there were a lot of mass produced guns. But I wounder if the parts had to be hand fitted or not. If parts had to be hand fitted the plausability of more breach blocks is less lakely.

I imagine the tolerances are enough to allow for swapping.

No one did

Donna Sachs they seem to be of Standard size. Were you thinking of buying one?

kinda

nick m It's the best choice for a home defense weapon! Best of luck finding one!

It's linked in the description...

Did you skip breakfast?

Even Conan couldn't do that