Project Description
!!!!!SOLD!!!!! This is a 1/3 scale Model 1883 carriage Gatling gun made by Karl and Keith Furr In Orem, Utah. This is a ten barrel Gatling with the barrels covered in a brass shroud. The gun is chambered in and will fire the .22 short rimfire cartridge. The gun on the carriage is about 29″ long muzzle to end of trail, 24″ wide from axle tip to axle tip, and 20 1/2″ tall to the top of the magazine. The gun and carriage are made almost entirely of brass with the exception of the walnut spokes and wheel rims, the steel barrels, and some internal parts. The top rear of the barrel shroud is marked “MODEL 1883, No 45, CAL 22” in three lines. Just ahead of those markings is a round brass coin like object marked “GATLING GUN, PATENTED” in two lines. The top of the trunion band is marked “MANUFD BY, Colt Pat F A Mfg Co, HARTFORD, CONN” in three lines. The bottom rear of the receiver is marked in engraving pencil Made by, Karl J. Furr & Paul J. Kuhni, Orem, Utah. June 1972″ in three lines. The top rear of the receiver cap has two spirit levels, one for fore and aft, the other for side to side. There are two very sharply pointed front sights, one on each side of the muzzle. There are fixtures to hold rear sights on both sides of the rear of the gun, but only one sight is present, on the left side. There is a tiller bar on the bottom rear of the gun assembly for directing fire in a sweeping motion. The rear receiver ring has a removable plug to access the bolts for removal to clean both the bolts and the barrels. There are two brass boxes mounted to the axle, one on either side of the gun. These were to hold four of the Accles drum magazines. I believe each magazine holds 64 rounds of .22 short rimfire ammunition. The gun is complete except for the two tapered brass pins that hold the wheels in place and possibly one of the rear sights. I don’t know that these actually came with two rear sights. The gun was bought from a collector who had it stored in his garage in upstate New York for 25 years with no temperature or humidity controls. Thus, it looks like it could have actually been made in 1883. The brass has a mostly dark butternut patina with areas of green verdigris, with some of the more protected areas still showing a nice mellow yellow aged brass look. The bores of the barrels are rusty & dark, but do show rifling. When cranking the gun, there seems to be a tight spot. This piece would make an excellent display “as is”, with it’s antique look, or it could be cleaned up, polished, a little mechanical tune up, and hit the firing line! In mint condition, one of these will bring about $13,500.00 – $15,000.00. I’m pricing this one to sell! Since this is a firing gun and is not antique, all FFL rules apply. !!!!!SOLD!!!!!
