That Time an English Dude Invented a Gun that Fired Square Bullets... 

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I had a cat named Puckles. Total coincidence. Wish I knew the name of this gun sooner because it would have absolutely boosted her ego.

I do love how they sighted Forgoten weapons. That's the whole point of his site, to be a log of historical firearms to be used for research purposes. Good on you guys for using it and citing him.

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@3:43 Being shot by Puckles God Gun was known as a ballistic baptism.

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Just wait until Today I Found Out discovers the Whitworth rifles hexagonal bullets.

Ah yes, punt guns: When you want to shoot once and spend the rest of the day collecting mangled duck remains...

Forgotten weapons made a video on this Gun. If you are weapon interested or just want to see how it works after you seen this video, check it out:)

Forgotten weapons is a great channel if you like this

So not only did he create one of the first machineguns he invented "tacticool"

1:36 I totally thought Simon was about to say _"the colonies"_ instead of _"pirates."_

Lol wish the forgotten weapons source listed "gun Jesus" instead.

British grenadiers and Prussian Hessians were so well trained they could fire in volley at a rate of 12-15 seconds, or four shots a minute. For most others 20 seconds would be about right, or three shots a minute, although 15 seconds was not unreachable. However, 20 seconds was not the elite time but rather the maximum allowed time for well trained troops. Troops that could not fire three shots a minute were considered under skilled. I've watched reenactors of various skill sets demonstrate these rates of fire in contest at Colonial Williamsburg. Bonus facts: Muzzle loading rifles before the minié ball could be loaded as fast as about 20 seconds when perfectly clean, even with using a powder horn and cloth wadding. However, as the rifling quickly fouled up, the force need to ram the tight fitting bullet past the fouled rifling quickly increased, so follow up shots increased to 30, 40, and before long possibly 60 seconds. This is why regular infantry never used rifles. Smoothbore muskets used a loose fitting ball, so it could be rammed home quickly even when the musket was fouled. This is why breech loading muskets were such a big deal. You have a fast, consistent rate of fire even when using a rifled barrel. There were some used by British in the American Revolution, but for quite a while breech loading guns were either unreliable or too hard to mass produce/expensive. Queue the Springfield and Enfield rifled-muskets of the Civil War. It used the genius French Minié ball to get the best of both worlds. The firearm was muzzle loading, i.e. reliable; the Minié ball was smaller than the bore, i.e. quick loading like a musket, and the specially-shaped Minié ball expanded when fired so it engaged the rifling. Except for the new primer cap firing system, the 1853 Enfield and 1861 Springfield basically loaded just like a Brown Bess or Charleville musket of the Revolution. Therefore, the firing rate was similar to Revolutionary musket firing rates. However, it performed like a rifle, as it was.

"Square up" had a whole different meaning...

i guess the puckle gun from assassin's creed rouge is a lil' faster than the original

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Imagine crusaders back then if they had this gun Crusaders: Here’s the deal, get out of Jerusalem or prepare to taste the fury of Jesus’s Love

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For more information on Puckle and punt guns, try the forgotten weapons channel

While NOT a "machine gun", or ANY OTHER type of auto loading gun, It however, not only RESEMBLES a revolver, It IS a revolver.

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Ian from Forgotten Weapons has a great video about the Puckle Gun

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Completely forgot about this gun. Neato. Thanks for reminding me.

Re:Pirates. Pirates (real life black bardies, red beared, etc) also didn't use one singular heavy ball. It was popular to use lots of smaller balll wich covered more area, and would hit something. They were also some of the best the french marines of that erra. They'd also use a rough form of laughing gas as well. It was a rough (and weirdly strict) form of morals so as to (relatively peacably) take the ship to be escorated bacck their bace of Privateering.

For everyone who doesn't know: the author Karl Smallwood who rode the article for this video is hosting his own RU-vid channel named Fact Fiend, where he makes videos out of his articles. It's definitely worth checking him out!

That guy must have been a SQUARE 😂😂

In eastern europe they used clamped rectangular/square bullets in their muskets Must have made one hell of a mess

The reason for the Puckle gun not being accepted was it's low reload rate and while one man could operate it a team was really needed. That crank on the gun looks like the hand crank on a Gatling gun which rotated the barrels and loaded metal cased cartridges from a stack magazine. The Puckle had one barrel and a circular magazine that held 6 or 11 shots. The hand crank turned a screw that pressed the magazine onto the barrel. Once fired the screw backed off the magazine and the next chambered shot was hand tuned into position. Now the screw was turned pressing the chambered round onto the barrel. Being flintlock the pan was given a charge of powder and it was ready to fire again. What slowed the rate of actual fire down was each magazine chamber had to be hand loaded like a musket. With 6 to 11 chambers this took so much time that even with extra preloaded magazines you soon ran out of ready magazines to use. Until the magazines were ready it's crew was standing idle in the heat of battle. The gun required extra preloaded magazines, at least gunner and preferably two or more loaders. Rather than dedicate a crew to the gun the number of men needed to crew it could be issued muskets and give an acceptable rate of fire. It was an innovative idea that worked but was not a practical battlefield weapon.

Thomas Bennett the second pres of Winchester firearms own a 4 Gauge cartridge punt gun designed to be fired from the shoulder

On the subject of the punt gun....At the time the punt gun was in use a lot of the mea at for most Americans who didn't live on farms was harvested wild fowl... Market hunters were feeding entire towns and cities with affordable meat not providing luxury foods. and at the time there literally was no concept that hunting could affect the population of species. Some birds were so abundant that could darken the skies, or strip a farm bare of seeds and young plants in an afternoon. Passenger Pigeon flocks altered the species of trees growing in regions they populated by eating seeds and shoots of plants that put out seeds during their migrations . Not only that as they passed overhead people had to take cover due to the amount droppings raining out of the sky.

I didn't know there was an older version of a primitive machine gun than this one. What is the name of the older one? I knew about this gun but did not know it could shoot square bullets. I've never seen one but would love to find one to add to my gun collection. I'd be the envy of all of my friends! I prefer shooting modern designed guns for safety reasons but I'd sure like one anyway.

*laughs in blunderbuss* _silly gun, anything is a projectile_ huehuehuehuehue

"For when you really want to ruin someone's day"..... I'm pretty sure you're going to f**k up their whole week with that one!

Can you please do a video on the history of "bless you" and the formalities of what you say when people sneeze? Google seems to be vague with answers lol

I've heard of the puckle gun but I didn't know it could fire multiple types of ammo, thanks for the knowledge.

And it was another, somewhat better known Englishman, Joseph Whitworth, who came up with a hexagonal rifle. The Whitworth rifle actually did see military use, although not by the British. The French army used them, and, perhaps more notably, Confederate sharpshooters used them to the dismay of the Union, who lost at least two generals to this rifle, which reportedly had some degree of accuracy out to 2000 yards.

The opening notes of this video remind me of Steppinwolf "Magic Carpet Ride" , listen.........

"But the founding fathers could never even conceive of something that shot faster than a musket! It was only intended to arm the military, not the people!" Which is, of course, why the American military has never been allowed to move past the musket age. Poor things.

I wonder what kind of role the punt gun played in the extinction of the Passenger pigeon.

This gun is the greatest argument against people who think that the founding fathers didn't realize how much weapons would advance and that they wouldn't realize that high capacity firearms were going to be a thing in the future.

Thank you for this video, I can link to this in debates instead of quoting a book.

How about a video about cryogenically frozen people?

Funny. Like a high velocity lead projectile to the Thorax or Coconut, "I mean Cranium" makes much difference what the lead projectile is shaped like. Hole or Splat, Surgeons were limited by the times back then.

I first read about this gun when I kid in library in Picton, Ontario, Canada. It became a _life's mission_ to see it. Twenty-eight years later, I went straight from Heathrow Airport to the Tower of London and struck it off my Bucket List.

3:53 🤣 that had me laughing more than it should have

Another interesting bonus fact is that nearly 200 years later Hiram S. Maxim's automatic machine gun was again passed up by the British and almost everyone else. The German's bought the patent though and only a few years later did the rest of the world realize their tremendous mistake when the German military began using it to mow down entire units in WW1.

The exact sort of strangeness I hope for. Thanks

I really wish we could devote more attention on ways to *not* kill one another. But as Mr. Whistler has said "Humans are going to human"

This video is a good source for people who contend that the second amendment doesn't apply any more because it was so long ago and those guns don't compare to guns of today. Most people don't realize that the first machine gun was patented in 1718 and he had built many different machine guns by this time! This means that the machine gun had been invented nearly 70 years before the Declaration of Independence!

Forgotten Weapons has a video on this and other weird old guns

Morrigan joins the group.

Video starts at 0:14 Bonus facts at 7:02

Britain's have a habit of making things square, am I right?!

Who here knew it was the Puckle gun just from the thumbnail?

150+ years later, and the bird population really has never recovered from what it was in the wild west of the 1700s - 1800s. In my region, I am lucky as I live in a crossroads are for migratory birds. And so I get to see many and varied birds all year long. And many visitors or new comers to my area comment on how many birds they notice. But it's nothing like the blackouts that used to occur as described from back then.

I remember reading about this failed weapon design. 1 article from the flop said "Those injured hold shares therein." LOL.

For those able to visit, the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco, TX has, or had at least, a punt gun on display.

I think pork bullets would have been for effective for this purpose.

The reason square bullets were a bad idea is that it is rifling in the barrel (a groove to make the bullet spin) which increases the accuracy over longer distances only works properly with a round projectile

This dude really just made a gun that shoots metal Lego bricks, huh?

Hope that Puckle had a salve for that burn...

"capable of turning a man's insides." .....Into his outsides. :)

Wonder if them punt guns'd work on summa them feral hogs... says maybe 30-50 o' them fellers. Fire dat big boy out der like SOOOOOOEY!!! Yeeehaaaww ya dang ol' feral hoggies! Git on outs away froms ma chiren!

Wait! Loophole found! Puckle advertised it as a gun to "defend...the home....", but it was also designated a "machine gun", even if incorrectly so. So if I buy a Browning M2 and call it a "Puckle Gun", it's "LEGAL" for home defense, riiiiiight? It's "technically" a Puckle Machine Gun being used as advertised. (Sorry for going quote-crazy.)

Suuuup? Maybe get to a thousandth of an inch and do a recap of the guy that invented the thou (thoooowww). The reason we can precisely measure and therefore manufacture.

3:18 "Engravings give you no tactical advantage whatsoever" - Revolver Ocelot

Interesting little piece of history.

I saw those punt guns in museums on the Eastern Shore (of Maryland) was I was a kid. They called them "pilgrim getters" and I was told they could clear a beach in a single shot. Lol

The square bullets were specifically for turks. good day

"..this use case" Marvellous editing again.

This sounds like it was the 18th century version of an Indiegogo campaign.

that punt gun needs to be in a film! like a hitmans booby trapped hideaway

Then there was the guy who invented a rifle that fired octagonal bullets that fired not through a rifled barrel but a barrel with octagonal twist. IIRC, it had higher accuracy than rifled barrels.

1:26 WOW, Mr Puckle didnt like the Catholics

$3.50 per pair of ducks in the 1800s? F#$&ing ducks were expensive as hell!

Puckled his insides so bad they turned into his outsides!

Every discharge in great force...

The best example, for those here State's Side, to combat those who argue that the American Bill of Right's 2nd Amendment was written prior to repeating firearms. This firearm was designed, built and used decades before the American Revolution. Mr Puckle, himself, died about 80 years prior to the Revolution.

It's actually fascinating how slow government militaries have been to adopt dramatic increases in firepower throughout the history of individually operates firearm evolution. From multiple navies turning down the Puckle gun which was WAY ahead of its time, to the lukewarm followup of the Gattling gun in spite of its long US service history, to Maxim's struggles to find initial guinea pig nations for his always impressive first of its kind machine gun - even magazines being added to single shot rifles, even auto loading(or semi-auto) rifles & pistols; in spite of the huge fundamental leap from literally hand loading a bolt action rifle with every shot to just running the bolt and letting a magazine feed the next cartridge, or from a manually operated bolt action rifle to an automatically operated semi-auto, no matter how great the fundamental improvement in effectiveness, it has still typically taken at least a decade of real heavy development before these technologies become actually real world feasible. For instance, in WWI, most nations that had gotten into the very young machine gun game largely treated them as artillery, whom themselves didn't care much for them because, yes, rifle caliber machine guns do in fact make for terrible forms of artillery. As such, it was extremely common for the machine gun crews to literally be made up of the "intellectually challenged" of the military. While there were some more enterprising groups out on the war grounds that had no care for ignorant ineffective doctrine who would help build the foundation for the way that machine guns SHOULD be used, it was the Germans that recognized the great potential of machine guns from the beginning. In great contrast to most everyone else, the Germans put together highly skilled teams of men to crew their machine guns to wreak havok on the battlefield with great efficiency. They would also be one of the most significant driving forces in the development of the light machine gun in the name of making this extreme amount of fire power ever more man portable. For info on this kind of stuff, Forgotten Weapons and C&Rsenal are MUST WATCH content Unfortunately for many a great invention, we live in a world of NUMEROUS variables, many of which are rather unkind. Many failed inventions aren't 'bad', they just got caught out by unforseen variables

Isn't this the gun in the end of "the Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise? Or at least a very similar concept?

Ian of forgotten weapons actually does a review of one and shows all its parts

Cheers, Simon. And remember, kids,"Only a cunt would hunt with a punt!"- R.B.

"Burn" lol

Finally, a use for all my metallic six sided dice.

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'and protestant cause'..... well. the literal fist of god right there I'd reckon....

You're getting close into Forgotten Weapons territory, don't make me tell Ian.

Wow! Punt Guns regulated from existence in the USA by 1918, yet legal in GB.

This is some Enter the Gungeon stuff right there

I'm guessing that the reason why the Puckle Gun didn't work on ships is because of the occasional splash of water that got the gun powder wet, thus making the flint lock mechanism useless. But it made a great land weapon.

Dude straight up went in and made a minecraft gun in real life. Also thanks for reminding me crossout exists, have to get back on that game!

Tommy! I'm impressed! Not one time did you bash Yanks. It wont last but kudos to you for this time.

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I had heard of the Puckle gun, but this vid had much more information, thanks very much!

If you hit up forgotten weapons the dude explains how it works with a reproduction/OG model of a puckle.

"Puckle" sounds like a pokemon.

the whitworth rifle shot a hexagonal bullet