[geeks] When you ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY have to solve a prob lem..

[William Enestvedt]

>
> Wasn't there a full auto shotgun
> that used cylinders, like a revolver?
>
   Was the name Atchison Assault Shotgun, or some such? Sure: I search the
web, and on the page at http://www.orbdesigns.com/bpages/z20000917.html, I
come up with this:
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Subject: shotguns
    Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:12:00 -0400
    From: "Robert Bruce Thompson" 
 
> A 600 round per minute assault shotgun isn't overkill
 
Heh. I actually shot one of those once. It was an Atchison Assault Shotgun,
which some of the point guys carried in Vietnam. It was 12 gauge magnum,
loaded with #00 buckshot, and had a 25-round drum magazine. I don't recall
the exact cyclic rate, but I suspect it was more like 450 RPM. I'm told by
one of my friends who was In 'Nam, that the rule was if someone started
shooting at a patrol, everyone but the point guy dropped straight to the
ground where he stood, and the point guy pulled the trigger on the Atchison
while he turned in a circle, thereby shredding the foliage as well as anyone
foolish enough to be in the area.
 
I want to tell you that that was one horrific weapon. I can't think of any
other hand-held weapon that puts more lead in the air faster. When one of
those point guys went into his rock-'n-roll spin cycle, it was as though
he'd become a huge human hand grenade. Presumably, Charlie thought twice
about ambushing patrols that might be carrying one of those things.

--
Robert Bruce Thompson
thompson at ttgnet.com
http://www.ttgnet.com

Thanks, Bob.

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-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI