Shooting USA: History's Guns: The Nock Volley Gun

[@jollyplaguedoctor7512]

That recoil management was astonishing,especially for a man his age.

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

He underloaded it

[@URAQT-t3n]

The nock gun CAN break your shoulder.

[@WilliamAfton723]

​@@URAQT-t3n who needs a shoulder anyway

[@ThomasRonnberg]

Would love to see a high speed camera footage of this rifle!

[@2thePtBassTuT]

If you click the "gear" on the video pane, you can slow it down to 1/2 or 1/4 speed. It's not super slow motion, but it's pretty cool...

[@BotsWeekendCovers]

@@2thePtBassTuT That was pretty cool!!!

[@silasarpagaus3520]

​@@2thePtBassTuTit sadly doesn't change the framerate though, you don't see more, you just see it slower

[@TexasHoosier3118]

It is not a rifle.

[@J09-555]

All of the barrels are smoothbore, making It more of a musket. But that doesn't change the fact that a SLO mo with this thing would look cool

[@johnmedeiros8553]

Ive been reading sharpes escape and i just had to look this up! Wow

[@MisterTengu]

Let's not forget the duck foot pistol.

[@Beencheeling]

Pirate's best friend! Duck foot pistol offers 4 barrels! 4 barrels for 4 british scums!

[@SaltineCracker006]

That gun was big doo doo!

[@MisterTengu]

​@@SaltineCracker006yeah it was. it was an interesting approach to area control though

[@SaltineCracker006]

@@MisterTengu yes

[@juliusdream2683]

No let’s forget it. You couldn’t hit anything you we’re aiming at but hit everything and one around you.😅. It is a good piece of history ugly duckling though.

[@raidriarthegodking4485]

Firing a seven barrel gun multiple times to demonstrate how it works despite the recoil doing a number on your shoulder. Now that's soldiering!

[@grahambamford9073]

For anyone that's interested there was a British TV show made in the mid to late 90s which featured a Nock volley gun, the show was called Sharpe, it followed Major Sharpe and his men during the Napolenonic period, it was quite entertaining although a bit lacking in the budget department. I'm sure you could find it on KZbin..

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

Meanwhile, my primate brain went, "But what if you loaded each barrel like a shotgun?"

[@spidermonk3uVvwy8-2]

well, Swiss cheese is served, or no more human

[@thechickenfriedredneck910]

Yeah you could, but my God why, why would you do that?

[@BR4IN1N4J4R]

@@thechickenfriedredneck910 because who doesn't want a shoulder fired claymore mine? Turn a probably 15-20' area into a wall of lead and absolutely positively disable every single motherfucker in front of you

[@thechickenfriedredneck910]

@@BR4IN1N4J4R Yeah but your gonna be likewise disabled after you pull the trigger. If your shoulder some how is still not broken you will be too brused to pull the trigger again.

[@thechickenfriedredneck910]

@@BR4IN1N4J4R shotguns of equivalent size like punt guns were always mounted to a wall or a boat. They just had too much power to be shot free hand.

[@michael_iansmiththeMHistorian]

If you don’t want the recoil to hurt, look at Patrick Harper and shoot it from the waist

[@eric2685]

It may have been possible to use a few of these in a boarding operation . Loading a few for one use , to cover sailors as they jumped up to board an enemy ship . It's just an opinion from my perspective, but a use of these on a one blast volley or two might have given effective cover to an assault party as they began to cross to an enemy ship .

[@coolcosmic4351]

This makes me wonder, because I've been wandering about this alot. 🤔What would the "Knock Gun" look like if it got a modern upgrade so it can use the ammo's of today instead of pellets😱?

[@pirategamer3243]

Probably same thing but break action

[@coolcosmic4351]

@@pirategamer3243 You wanna know something. a week ago I was just thinking about how the gun could be giving that one feature of a break-action shotgun. Someone out their thats a gun smith needs to make this a reality.

[@juhis5936]

@@coolcosmic4351 I'm not sure if that would work the same way you would need 7 firing pins aswell because the way this works is there are holes connecting the barrels so that when 1 pile of powder gets fired it spreads to the next one

[@coolcosmic4351]

@@juhis5936I didn't think about that, but I think it would still be worth it if somebody decided to bring this old gun back, and gave it a modern make over.

[@level98bearhuntingarmor]

0:46 he has the perfect narrator voice and I'm all for it

[@HandsomeYoungSir]

It’s Walta

[@michelguevara151]

in case you are wondering, the royal acceptance mark is surmounted by 'tower', indicating that it was at some point in the tower of london's armoury.

[@2thePtBassTuT]

I think I'd wear some fire retardant head gear. That flameout off the back looks wicked!!

[@jrkat]

The Sargent in Cornwall’s Sharps Rifles carried on of these for devastating effect

[@phildicks4721]

Sgt Major Patrick Harper was the sgt.

[@yoapitas3point052]

Me when theres a big zombie horde in san sebastian:

[@slenfs9814]

only real ones understand this

[@Mepsi700]

​@@slenfs9814i dont ever use the nock gun in g&b i use the blunderbuss

[@WompThwomp]

@@Mepsi700 massive L

[@Dtng6]

​@@WompThwomp and? What wrong with blunderbuss it is bad?

[@engineergaming8272]

nock gun can be better in some scenario like in catacombes or san sebastian and the best one is la haye

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

Hello, Nock Volley Gun. Goodbye, shoulder...😉

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

To be fair, the concept of Volley guns, multiple barrels in a single weapon were not a new idea when Nock made his guns. Multi barreled Volley Guns have existed since Guns were first developed. Even in the Middle Ages when Knights and Castles were still the Norm, Volley guns were all the rage on the medieval battlefield.

[@xand-er5625]

How much francs?

[@HandsomeYoungSir]

Shi idk😭🙏

[@enderchau954]

I think it's like 300 francs

[@HandsomeYoungSir]

@@enderchau954 yaeh

[@BotsWeekendCovers]

There is also a double barrel version with 14 rifled barrels side by side!!!!! 30cal.

[@MrPatriot112]

That gun was also seen in John Wayne's Alamo film, carried by Jim Bowie (played by Richard Widmark). Not sure if the man himself really had one, but when Widmark used it, in the movie by the way, at least five to six Mexican troops went down.

[@WindyHeavy]

JESSÆ WE NEED TO REPEL THE REDCOATS

[@Shapelybox]

Oh my god it's the gun from Guts and Blackpowder

[@duaneho555]

Still one of the coolest firearms around.

[@Maser209]

280 grains of blackpowder going off almost all at once seems like a handful, but to anyone who has had their shoulder beaten by hard kicking guns their whole life would handle it just fine.

[@Maverick966]

280 grains is nothing that a good shooter can't handle, there is 11BangBang that shoots 200 grains of powder all at once with his Brown Bess

[@MatthewHensley8304]

that recoil didn't look that bad as they describe it in the video

[@isaacjones748]

I reckon the guy doing the shooting has more than enough experience with firing to be able to handle it better than the average dude

[@Aztesticals]

Well he did also use the reduced charge.

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

He used reduced charge

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

He used reduced charge and small balls

[@Shreek17]

Firing the Nock gun? Now that's soldiering!

[@timeverett7828]

Very famous firearm.

[@twistedyogert]

Those barrels were .50 caliber hence the enormous recoil. If the barrels were made smaller then things might've been more manageable.

[@curtisparr7064]

They are of carbine caliber, .69 if I'm not mistaken.

[@col.cottonhill6655]

I want one for HD

[@ericcerna4286]

The Dragon from Fallout 76 in real life ✌🏼😂

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

R.i.p Jim we will miss you

[@farmv2136]

Been watching since I was 10 im mid 30s now love ur content love the history of these magnificent works of art keep up the work

[@rxfire2437]

Interesting video, but you have to wonder how mister Just for Men there gets his early 1960s radio DJ voice. Surgery? Smoking? A steady diet of Jack Daniels?

[@scottmallory7062]

Hi, are you going to do a segment on the ak 50?

[@Venoxisguides]

Harper would be proud

[@aaaht3810]

So, how do you know all barrels fired? if you were only to see six hits on the target, how do you know all barrels fired and one ball missed the target and not that you had a misfire in one of the barrels and it did not fire? Or in actual use, did the shooter have to run the ramrod down each barrel to see if all were empty before reloading? Or could you just double load in the event of a misfire.

[@CodeRed001]

That was one of the big issues with this gun. If a barrel didn't fire and you accidentally double loaded it wasn't good. I have no clue how you would check in a hurry. My guess is they would drop a ramrod into the barrel and measure each barrel. If one barrel showed the rod wouldn't go down as much as the rest then probably a bullet didn't leave the barrel.

[@mungo7136]

@@CodeRed001 You did so anyway in loading process, thus in that case you had to worry about double-load. That would be my other concern - unless you have nerves of steel, in the battle it is not going to be that easy to grant that you do not skip one barrel and double-load another one. More somewhere high in the masts of the rocking ship covered in clouds of blackpowder smoke when main battery down made complete volley.

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Seems odd to bother with 7 smoothbore barrels when one giant shotgun barrel would do the same job.

[@Sandlin22]

I -blunder- if there's a gun in history like that......😏

[@Grubleafeater]

Accuracy. 7 smoothbore barrels equates to a very well choked shotgun. One giant shotgun would have horrible spread.

[@thechickenfriedredneck910]

@@Grubleafeater not a bad Idea when you want to kill a whole flock of ducks in one shot like the 2 guage punt gun.

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

Blunderbuss

[@nursestoyland]

You have alerted the GnB fanbase

[@zloycommentator83]

Oh god it's even worse than alerting horde of Tumblr users 💀

[@nursestoyland]

@@zloycommentator83 why tumblr users?

[@michaelnaretto3409]

The one in The Alamo was electronically fired ha. Ina blooper you can see the electrical cord going form the back of the gun and down below the wall.

[@benoliver5593]

There had to be a brace system that was ment to be in place or additional armor

[@KenanVonKaiser]

Boom!

[@stalfithrildi5366]

You say it was a naval gun but it did see use in the Iberian Peninsula of the Napoleonic Wars with the Prince of Wales' Own Regiment.

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

Link to where you found this at?

[@mattic6]

Hardly lethal if the bullets can't even go through cardboard. That's two vids now where the firer lessened the charge. I'd like to see a full-power shot.

[@mothmagic1]

That thing is guaranteed to spoil the day of anyone on the receiving end.

[@callancloghesy5306]

Not so fun fact did you know that the nock gun can break your arm becuase of its recoil and also how much recoil would the nock gun have if all of its ammunition was replaced with the 4 bores ammunition and 4 bores is just a really really powerful rifle it produces 200lb of recoil so what would

[@sedellaodyssey8737]

*fable 2 theme plays*

[@curtisparr7064]

I'm curious to see what a nock gun can do with shooting buck shot?

[@DestructionOfRome]

You just like to push it don’t you? You’ve got these burning, stupid questions that you know when you ask them that they’re bad ideas, but because they have the potential to yield ridiculous, frankly awesome results with no small threat to human life we are too tempted not to go through with it. A nock gun that shoots buck shot. Is killing the man not enough, Curt? Must you turn the entire upper half of a man into a pink mist.

[@curtisparr7064]

​@@DestructionOfRomeexactly! We are on the same page

[@virajkishore6960]

You should not use cartridges because you'll waste it so use gunpowder filter that will make it easier

[@BobmcJane4815]

I feel stupid for asking, but what exactly is a gunpowder filter?

[@virajkishore6960]

​@@BobmcJane4815 gunpowder filter is where you store some gunpowder in it

[@BobmcJane4815]

@@virajkishore6960 Ah, thanks for clearing that up!

[@michaelwilson9986]

Cool

[@kyawhwa2827]

This gun can actually break your arm

[@michaelgodbee5361]

Ok what is ite max accurate range

[@Aaron_Barrett]

I was watching on TV your program, and it was called here in Ukraine "Magic of weapon", so I tries to find it on internet unsuccesfully (other name).

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Thin patch and a .495 would be alright.

[@olgaboyko7510]

When I was searching this I accidentally spelled nock gum

[@J09-555]

Now imagine a shotgun trap with this bad boy!

[@German-Star-Line]

Bro they call it American even though this gun is British😂

[@Xenon_Proto]

I call it a crotch rocket, because firing it from the shoulder will break it

[@jushuaaking5724]

Yo I missed let me just spend 1 hour reloading before fighting again

[@MountainMemelord]

The amount of coke snorted at His Royal Majesty's R&D department was biblical when this was made.

[@georgescott3141]

Interestingly just proves the gun was useless for its intended purpose, if six out of seven rounds hit the same man it is not exactly clearing an area, perhaps the barrels should have been slightly spread to increase the kill zone.

[@HandsomeYoungSir]

0:e6 WALTER WHITE

[@chrisgabbert658]

👍😊

[@Mikethemang]

This gun on the cover of james gang.

[@kevinkoster8066]

People were also alot smaller

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

No they were not

[@kevinkoster8066]

@@GodzillaKaijuGK yes they were

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

how were they a lot smaller. they were not. 2 inches average is not a lot smaller. this isn't ancient Egypt where everyone is 5'5@@kevinkoster8066

[@michaelmeyers1827]

Looks punishing

[@billwhite1603]

The issue, despite being subscribed, is I watched 90% of these 10 years or more ago when they aired on cable. I normally never watch. Make new videos and put real age of videos. Not telling the truth is the same as a lie.

[@El_Cubano7_Rec]

You gotta jump and point down at the horde to get more zombies… what a noob.

[@engineergaming8272]

this aint no game

[@Mephiston1984LoD]

🧐

[@laserbeam002]

I wonder if anyone is producing reproductions of the Nock Volley Gun???

[@Iowaridesandgun]

NEAT, but why didnt they just use a shotgun?

[@homevalueglass3809]

This was back in the 1700s when they be using flint lock guns. It basically was a 7 barrel shotgun

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

They did, but as the saying goes, ‘Variety is the Spice of Life.”

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

They wanted an improvement on the blunderbuss. Which didn’t improve anything but power and accuracy

[@kalashnikov4784]

R.i.p jim

[@loeil666]

FORTNITE BUNDLEBUSSY IRL

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

Please be a joke. Blunderbuss is real and came before the nock volley

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

This is the advancement of the blunderbuss

[@GodzillaKaijuGK]

I was stupid when I wrote that. Ignore that

[@rxfire2437]

Interesting video, but you have to wonder how mister Just for Men there gets his early 1960s radio DJ voice. Surgery? Smoking? A steady diet of Jack Daniels?