Isaac Raschke he made this video in advance and only patreon supporters get private links to watch his early videos before its uploaded on YT. ( i think take this with a grain of salt )
@@SonsOfLorgar probably would have been done after a couple trips to the range with those prototypes. I would have added a thumb stud to help push the top cover.
'Did he fire eighteen shots or only seventeen?' Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. But being that this is a McCarty Turret Revolver, the most unwieldy handgun in the world, and would wound your head somewhat, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk?
@@jurgensebastiancortescueva8147 Your comment makes me rage. Why do you think your opinion is relevant in any way? Let those guys joke around and move on.
This looks like something that should have been invented 40 or 50 years before it was actually made. It would fit right in with all of the weird guns of the 1850s or 1860s.
I may have missed the patent date earlier in the video, because at the end I sat here dumbfounded thinking it was 60 years too late. In my head I was saying, "no, of course it'd be .22. short...."
I’m not even into firearms but I love this channel, it’s so interesting and extremely well informed, I love the historical context as well as all the mechanical breakdowns!
As silly as this gun is, we have to admire the maker for coming up with a new idea and building it. The only way to find out if an idea is practical is to build it.
I love these weird and wonderful and impractical designs of this period. Nobody seemed to know quite what was the right or wrong way to design a gun and they were all trying to avoid infringing each others patents. Keep up the good work, Ian.
Lee Enfield You can't Ban it yet, you gotta nerf it. Lose 10% capacity for 5% firing speed it also has additional recoil and projectile speed is increased by 20%
@@kickazz9473 if you're thinking of the Guycot chain gun, there were absolutely rifle versions, they held 100 shots! If you meant the actual revolver with the more traditional chain, there was also rifle that's kinda similar to that, though the name currently escapes me. Edit: I was thinking of the Treeby Chain Gun
This seems like it would be a really cool CAD and/or 3D printer project to recreate... seems simple enough, and would probably work okay if your math and machining is good. Nobody is gonna come after you for the patent, so... I hope it is somebody's weekend project 😊
This works in a similar way to one of my hypothetical twin 5” gun designs. 6 slot drum per gun, each drum rotating towards the center of the turret. As the drums are the breaches, they don’t work like a Gatling gun, as this drum locks in place behind the barrel to fire. Once the shell has been fired, it rotates to the upper center area center position, then the case is ejected out the front of the gun. In the bottom center, the drum slot is reloaded. The turret does not fire both barrels at the same time, but one at a time. So when the left gun fires, it’s recoil resets the right gun, and the right guns recoil arms the left gun. This is primarily to reduce the built up heat in the guns while increasing the fire rate when compared to a modern 5” gun turret.
Wouldn't the reloading door have to be inside the ring to actually function? At least it should with any current rimmed, tapered or bottlenecked cartridge, it might work with one of those reverse tapered patent circumvention oddities or maybe with an entirely straight one.
@@Wavemaninawe drugs definitely belong in engineering, Steve Jobs got all his ideals from LSD for example.. And Trump got his ideals from crack cocaine, he was able to do really well in the debates by being insanely cracked out.
Some of these guns you demonstrate are just plain bizarre, but they're interesting. I've been designing a pistol (and a carbine too) with a lot of outside-the-box features that I thought were totally original, only to learn that someone else had the same idea many years earlier.
Actually a rather ingenius design! I assume this is more of a proof of concept prototype. I can think of a few changes that would make it far more practical, but still would be rather bulky. If it had been designed thirty years earlier, it might have been developed into a usable weapon.
I love seeing these weird early guns. It's interesting seeing all these outlandish designs people came up with before a handful of designs dominated the market.
benn454 There are reasons we need barrels even small ones and that is to help build up the pressure and guide the projectile.The rounds in the other chambers if they explode (extremely unlikely,maybe even impossible) they are not gonna act like bullets but more like an extremely wimpy hand grenade.So in the end even if it fails the result wont be too different from a mosern pistol failing.
You're one of the few channels whose thumbnails cannot be clickbait, and I am compelled the click on them whenever I see these psychotic looking weapons
IF you wanted to make something better out of a design like this would it be a good idea to have a thumbhole where the trigger is now and have a grip with trigger on the outside of the cylinder?
With the trigger outside the cylinder you then have the issue of needing to go around the cylinder with a trigger bar. Not a bad idea, but it would take some extra tinkering.
I was listening to this while I was driving. When he said there was a wheel of cylinders, I was amazed and was trying to figure out how that could work. Went back to the video when I got home and was disappointed
Do these auction houses ever let you take these awesome guns to the range? Also I'm glad to see you're still on YT I love your videos keep up the good work.
Hmm, looks like something that California politicians would say needs to be implemented on all firearms. You know, disassembly required to reload. LOL!
McCarty's Peculiar sounds like an Irish beer !! Firearms, aviation and automobiles, to name a few categories, have such splendid arrays of ingenious "also rans". I love these just as much as the well-known winners, a lot of creative thought went into all of them. Love your videos. P.S. Some tank designs are fascinatingly bad also.
The grip: index finger through that large oval above the barrel (see that chamfer there to make it comfy?) and probably middle or ring finger through the trigger guard on the trigger. The pinky goes through the little ring at the bottom.
Hi ian im a long time viewer and i have to say this is one of the most informative gun channels on youtube. Im just inquiring about the ww1 expedition you plan to do later this year. When will this take place? Kind regards Eoin Lucey
Honesly this looks like an enlarged palm revolver. Pinky goes in the loop at the bottom, ring finger pulls trigger, pointer finger goes towards the smooth groove between sights and barrel.
Just an observation: maybe you should put your audio through equalizer/filter or use a better mic? It sounds like the mid to lower end needs to be filtered and tweaked. It’d also be awesome to hear all the clicks and snaps of the firearm as you work with it. It’s a great ASMR
I think there's another reason for the angled chambers. If they were straight, they wouldn't line up properly with the barrel since it's offset from the center of the cylinder.
You’re telling me this guy can engineer an 18 shot revolver but can’t figure out how handles work? This thing looks like it was designed to be as uncomfortable as possible. Might as well have sharpened all the metal edges so that it cuts your hand open while you use it.
> "It's gone a bit full circle..."
> turret revolver
ಠ_ಠ
oof
Rock Island Auction Company dont hold back say what you really think
Rock Island Auction Company RUclips thinks your comment was posted three weeks ago, RIA is the future lel
Isaac Raschke he made this video in advance and only patreon supporters get private links to watch his early videos before its uploaded on YT. ( i think take this with a grain of salt )
@lefr33man - NEVER!
Looking at this gun it's not surprising that clock makers and gunsmiths had a lot of overlap back in the day.
You're looking at this and I'm just thinking about the G-11 rifle internal's.
keith moore sword smiths use lots of spring steal too but they lack the experience with tiny moving parts
@keith moore A little more than that. Both know how to get small moving parts working properly
Isn't it ironic!? Don't ya think??😂
It really just goes full circle.
A reverse Henry. A gun you can shoot on sunday and takes a week to reload.
Nice.
@@SonsOfLorgar they should make a betamag for it at least
@@SonsOfLorgar probably would have been done after a couple trips to the range with those prototypes. I would have added a thumb stud to help push the top cover.
Nah I'd say that's the American 180 especially if you have trouble with over a hundred .22s
Rock Island Auction Company why hello there 👋
looking back on this now, it kind of reminds me of the Zip22. it certainly has the "how the heck am i supposed to hold this thing" aspect to it!
It was truly ahead of its time.
"guys cmon don't reinvent the wheel."
"But what if we made the wheel a GUN?"
This is Remnant. EVERYTHING is also a gun.
We should reinvent the wheel though, energy weapons baby
Hey, revolvers are sometimes called wheel guns, right?
"Jacobs!"
🇺🇸
'Did he fire eighteen shots or only seventeen?' Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. But being that this is a McCarty Turret Revolver, the most unwieldy handgun in the world, and would wound your head somewhat, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk?
Genius
A lot Dirtier Harry
“Callahan, turn in your badge and your 20 pound handgun !”
class
AlexR2648 ok, you made me laugh out loud with that comment, much obliged
Looks like a musical instrument.
Don't put your mouth up to it
it is it plays the song of freedom
@@gcart7675 freedom for the spirit from the body
I hear it frees the soul.
It only plays doots of death
That's the stupidest looking revolver I think I've ever seen.
I'll take 2.
Lol
Who the hell needs 36 rounds of .22LR?!?
Will someone please think of the children?!? X{D
I'll take 6: 2 for each hand, 1 for each foot
@@jurgensebastiancortescueva8147 Your comment makes me rage. Why do you think your opinion is relevant in any way? Let those guys joke around and move on.
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This looks like something that should have been invented 40 or 50 years before it was actually made. It would fit right in with all of the weird guns of the 1850s or 1860s.
TreeWizard648, my thoughts exactly!
I may have missed the patent date earlier in the video, because at the end I sat here dumbfounded thinking it was 60 years too late. In my head I was saying, "no, of course it'd be .22. short...."
Finally, its the high-capacity Assault revolver everyone's been talking about!
Wheeliam McCarty's patented CartWheel revolver. This is what happens when you put a coffee mug on your blueprints.
Lmao
That's a good one
Gota love prototypes. Always so interesting.
I’m not even into firearms but I love this channel, it’s so interesting and extremely well informed, I love the historical context as well as all the mechanical breakdowns!
It's so heavy that it has a AR style carry handle!
Simple, elegant and clumsy design.
one of those guys Nice profile pic. the dude abides
one of those guys elegant AND clumsy? Bit of an oxymoronic statement there, mate!
one of those guys
It'd be pretty cheap to reproduce today.
But isn't that what we love the most ? :)
Luke, that's, just...like, your, opinion Man. Someone needs a hug.
"Early attempt at a high capacity revolver", the key word being attempt. That thing has great ergonomics.
As silly as this gun is, we have to admire the maker for coming up with a new idea and building it. The only way to find out if an idea is practical is to build it.
It's utterly awkward, overly complex, effectively obsolete when it was designed, and useless in the modern era
I want it
Matthew Palmer It kind of looks steampunky in a way
Aye, it really does. Slap some brass gears on it!
@@matthewpalmer7184 steampunk is about having *working* gears and other overcomplicated mechanisms, sir!
@@ScottKenny1978 so it is not a steampunk as it is not complicated at all...
🤣👍👍👍👍
Assault Frisbee
Underrated. Fucking. Comment
18 shots missed - lethal throw.
I love these weird and wonderful and impractical designs of this period. Nobody seemed to know quite what was the right or wrong way to design a gun and they were all trying to avoid infringing each others patents. Keep up the good work, Ian.
I dunno. It's impractical. It's Awkward. It's out of my price range... I LOVE IT!
Myra Madd its a simple design, a machinist could probably fabricate it
Avitus Nonius Midwestern Legion look up ecco machine he does way better than this to be honest
Hey Ian, keep it up whether it’s on RUclips or anything else, just keep up the awesome work
High capacity assault revolver. You know what to do.
Cat BAN
I'll only buy it if it has a tactical rail to mount my under barrel assualt chainsaw.
Mud test?
Lee Enfield You can't Ban it yet, you gotta nerf it. Lose 10% capacity for 5% firing speed it also has additional recoil and projectile speed is increased by 20%
what about the bayonet lug??
Would it not have worked better on a rifle?
Got to admire these innovative thinkers, even if their ideas are occasionally ridiculous.
They kinda did, the Porter turret rifle is a good example
This was my thought also. It reminded me of the chain revolver. Another design that would be terrific on a rifle!
The difference between a genius inventor and a crackpot is that one had enough luck to end up on something that stood the test of time.
@@kickazz9473 if you're thinking of the Guycot chain gun, there were absolutely rifle versions, they held 100 shots!
If you meant the actual revolver with the more traditional chain, there was also rifle that's kinda similar to that, though the name currently escapes me.
Edit: I was thinking of the Treeby Chain Gun
@@Ezekiel_Allium wow those are cool I had never seen/heard of either of those! Thanks
This seems like it would be a really cool CAD and/or 3D printer project to recreate... seems simple enough, and would probably work okay if your math and machining is good. Nobody is gonna come after you for the patent, so... I hope it is somebody's weekend project 😊
This works in a similar way to one of my hypothetical twin 5” gun designs. 6 slot drum per gun, each drum rotating towards the center of the turret. As the drums are the breaches, they don’t work like a Gatling gun, as this drum locks in place behind the barrel to fire. Once the shell has been fired, it rotates to the upper center area center position, then the case is ejected out the front of the gun. In the bottom center, the drum slot is reloaded. The turret does not fire both barrels at the same time, but one at a time. So when the left gun fires, it’s recoil resets the right gun, and the right guns recoil arms the left gun. This is primarily to reduce the built up heat in the guns while increasing the fire rate when compared to a modern 5” gun turret.
Wouldn't the reloading door have to be inside the ring to actually function?
At least it should with any current rimmed, tapered or bottlenecked cartridge, it might work with one of those reverse tapered patent circumvention oddities or maybe with an entirely straight one.
One inside and one outside.
Poke the old cartridge through the trigger... (doughnut?) With a rod and load in reverse?
By far, this is the coolest gun I’ve seen you present on this show. So cool. Thanks!
I love the thinking in this mecanism... nice !
Why is Ian the most interesting guy in existence. Seriously. I love these videos 75% because of Ian, 25% because of these cool ass guns.
It can be the wildest, weirdest, most obscure firearm in the world and Ian has a years-old blog post and dry pun for it.
@@dcurry7287 we forever love gun jesus
Can't imagine why it never caught on 😂😂
Christopher MacLennan Can't imagine why the holy handgrenade caught on
Best narrator I've ever come across! I Love his work.
This thing was loaded at the factory and had to be sent back to be re-loaded😂
Apple style XD
Brandon roberts Walmart had a reload service where you got it back in a week but this was reduced to a one-hour service…
NATO underwater pistol anyone?
“Full-circle”
Oh Ian, you slay us!
“It’s gone full circle”
Lol, good one
Your a genius brother. You need 1 million followers. Anyone could pitch you any gun and you could tell them every detail about it
Seems easyer to overcome drug adiction than to reload and fire this thing...
Let's find out
Looks more like a compelling argument to why drugs dont belong in engineering.
No way.
@@Wavemaninawe drugs definitely belong in engineering, Steve Jobs got all his ideals from LSD for example..
And Trump got his ideals from crack cocaine, he was able to do really well in the debates by being insanely cracked out.
@@helpabrothawithasubisaiah5316 Sorry, we said engineering. Jobs was in marketing.
"Sir, your revolver is on the wrong axis."
it looks like a brake disk lol
it is it stops whoever you need to shoot with it
@@gcart7675 nice
That was really great. I've never seen one of these. Thank you
Hmm, I was expecting it to be the same sort of size as one of those Chicago pocket pistols
Mike Stroz Same. Turns out it’s massive
But then what would it shoot? Kolibri rounds?
Some of these guns you demonstrate are just plain bizarre, but they're interesting. I've been designing a pistol (and a carbine too) with a lot of outside-the-box features that I thought were totally original, only to learn that someone else had the same idea many years earlier.
Now, this one is a forgotten weapon. Really like its simplicity though.
Actually a rather ingenius design!
I assume this is more of a proof of concept prototype.
I can think of a few changes that would make it far more practical, but still would be rather bulky.
If it had been designed thirty years earlier, it might have been developed into a usable weapon.
When I saw that thumbnail I was expecting some kind of palm pistol. Then the video started and holy shit that thing is gigantic.
I love seeing these weird early guns. It's interesting seeing all these outlandish designs people came up with before a handful of designs dominated the market.
Reloading Instructions:
1. Throw at nearest enemy.
2. Grab a new gun.
3. Repeat until gun supply is depleted.
Haha nice@@jays.6843
thank you for your service
Wrap music wire around the rim inside and make the hammer operate off the ring and you'd have a rip-roarin-rapid-rotary-revolver!
That is by far one of the most unique pistols ive ever seen. Not at all practical but, cool non the less.
Really beautiful construction of a really stupid idea :).
Bullets pointing at you in a magazine is a stupid idea, but its far more dangerous with black powder guns where chainfire is a more common problem.
Platfus Rodzer You can easily survive getting your fingers blown off. Taking a few rounds to the face might be a bit harder.
benn454
There are reasons we need barrels even small ones and that is to help build up the pressure and guide the projectile.The rounds in the other chambers if they explode (extremely unlikely,maybe even impossible) they are not gonna act like bullets but more like an extremely wimpy hand grenade.So in the end even if it fails the result wont be too different from a mosern pistol failing.
r/ATBGE
Plausible risk with this type of guns is hang fire.
He said it's gone... full circle!!!
Sad to see such innovation to so little effect.
Really cool to see how much of that gun is incorporated into a single casting. Production costs would probably be pretty low as a result.
That cylinder must be very prone to friction. Also cross threading on the cover plate. An interrupted thread or snap catch would have made more sense.
GunFun ZS same thought
You're one of the few channels whose thumbnails cannot be clickbait, and I am compelled the click on them whenever I see these psychotic looking weapons
it looks like a pistol version of that assault rifle from Deus Ex
Which one?
It's a really cool idea from the lawless time before everyone just did magazines
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was one of those car wheels to play Mario cart wii
The best part about this channel are just the super weird guns, like this, the poacher guns and the craft made guns.
2:02 Fires AROUND!!!! hahahahaha
7:37 i thought he was just gonna say "bye" and hard cut to black to end the video and i can't stop laughing
That thing is neat. Kinda weird, kinda dumb, but... very interesting.
It's so darn simple and I'm surprised it wasn't thought of earlier!
IF you wanted to make something better out of a design like this would it be a good idea to have a thumbhole where the trigger is now and have a grip with trigger on the outside of the cylinder?
With the trigger outside the cylinder you then have the issue of needing to go around the cylinder with a trigger bar. Not a bad idea, but it would take some extra tinkering.
Nawww man, you go full on "anachronism stew" and use electrically primed ammo like the Remington EtronX.
anachronism stew XD
I was listening to this while I was driving. When he said there was a wheel of cylinders, I was amazed and was trying to figure out how that could work. Went back to the video when I got home and was disappointed
What a clever bit of engineering and geometry. Shame about everything else.
0:28 made me die. No joke I crawled off my bed from laughter at “full circle” I shouldn’t have
This is where the Rhino got its design?
the resemblance is...uncanny
With the fully internal hammer, yes. I love the "carry handle" above the barrel tho'.
This thing is ridiculous and awesome in the same time...
A bit steampunkish lol
“this has gone a bit full circle” i’m inclined to agree
Last time i was this early Ian wore a red shirt
Nice, I was looking forward to see a video on this gun.
Is this not an AOW as it just doesn't look like a gun? At all.
Also if it chain fires, you lose the whole hand.
The Cynical Boy nope. The barrel and trigger are easily distinguishable and even the most sheltered would likely identify it as a gun.
You're the only content maker I like before I watch
Do these auction houses ever let you take these awesome guns to the range?
Also I'm glad to see you're still on YT I love your videos keep up the good work.
I shoot a selection of guns at the James Julia auction house, but it's not practical at Rock Island for several reasons.
Hmm, looks like something that California politicians would say needs to be implemented on all firearms. You know, disassembly required to reload. LOL!
I love all the weird guns you find.
McCarty's Peculiar sounds like an Irish beer !! Firearms, aviation and automobiles, to name a few categories, have such splendid arrays of ingenious "also rans". I love these just as much as the well-known winners, a lot of creative thought went into all of them. Love your videos. P.S. Some tank designs are fascinatingly bad also.
Say, 100 years from now or so, this video might be a really valuable historical record I think.
Just shows what someone who has an idea can come up with thanks for showing
I like it, alot of potential with this design
The grip: index finger through that large oval above the barrel (see that chamfer there to make it comfy?) and probably middle or ring finger through the trigger guard on the trigger. The pinky goes through the little ring at the bottom.
So cool! It needs a larger caliber, a detachable shoulder stock and a longer barrel though!
Hi ian im a long time viewer and i have to say this is one of the most informative gun channels on youtube. Im just inquiring about the ww1 expedition you plan to do later this year. When will this take place? Kind regards
Eoin Lucey
You know that looks like something that would be fun just to machine out of a block and play with to see if you could make it at all practical.
Nice review broooo!!!!
People did make some really weird guns back in the days..i love it
Honesly this looks like an enlarged palm revolver. Pinky goes in the loop at the bottom, ring finger pulls trigger, pointer finger goes towards the smooth groove between sights and barrel.
I like that the round revolver went full circle!
A beautifully simple mechanism.
I can see this in a steampunk alternate reality as a standard for all pistols
Man, you're not afraid to take apart anything!
Just an observation: maybe you should put your audio through equalizer/filter or use a better mic? It sounds like the mid to lower end needs to be filtered and tweaked. It’d also be awesome to hear all the clicks and snaps of the firearm as you work with it. It’s a great ASMR
Thinking outside the box. Gotta love it
I think there's another reason for the angled chambers. If they were straight, they wouldn't line up properly with the barrel since it's offset from the center of the cylinder.
You’re telling me this guy can engineer an 18 shot revolver but can’t figure out how handles work? This thing looks like it was designed to be as uncomfortable as possible. Might as well have sharpened all the metal edges so that it cuts your hand open while you use it.
Oddly Skilled: aces certain technical questions, but completely misses the human side.
I have to say, it's probably one of my favorite firing mechanisms now.
I love watching this channel because I mostly click on weapons that I can say “what in gods name is that” and this is a perfect example of that