Only one lock (flint) and 9 barrels but not in a rotating pepperbox arrangement.
Odd Beast. Some of the odd beasts in gun-land were specialties of the French and Belgians.
No obvious way to touch off one barrel at a time.
One man "organ gun" so a single soldier could fire a shoulder breaking volley?
Perhaps it was used like a punt gun of sorts and mounted or braced against something, as that's of rather large bores to touch off 9 barrels at once.
Odd beast.
OTOH: Japanese website, Japanese have a habit of building weird vaguely historical replica weird firearm like things.
Can't see how it'd be much useful for anything. Very well could be a fantasy piece created by some Japanese fellow that tired of Origami and Transformers with a taste for the flintlock era and created after consuming nine hits of acid to match his nine barrel mock flintlock gun idea?
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Only one lock (flint) and 9 barrels but not in a rotating pepperbox arrangement.
Odd Beast. Some of the odd beasts in gun-land were specialties of the French and Belgians.
No obvious way to touch off one barrel at a time.
One man "organ gun" so a single soldier could fire a shoulder breaking volley?
Perhaps it was used like a punt gun of sorts and mounted or braced against something, as that's of rather large bores to touch off 9 barrels at once.
Odd beast.
OTOH: Japanese website, Japanese have a habit of building weird vaguely historical replica weird firearm like things.
Can't see how it'd be much useful for anything. Very well could be a fantasy piece created by some Japanese fellow that tired of Origami and Transformers with a taste for the flintlock era and created after consuming nine hits of acid to match his nine barrel mock flintlock gun idea?
Well, if you're as bad a shot as I am, 9 barrels could come in handy...
Looks a bit like the Nock Volley Gun, made famous in the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell - but I think that was only 7 barrels.
Sgt. Harper's volley gun from Sharpe.
The Nock gun in the Sharpe series was seven barrels set in a circle, and smoothbore. Barrels in this thing are rifled.
Side note, they have one of the seven-barrel guns at the Davis Gun Museum in Claremore, OK
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