12-Shot Flintlock Jennings Repeating Rifle (15 pics)

I do not understand how this could possibly work ... no source link as usual
It's always the things I really, really wanna know more about that there is
no source link.

edit: found this on a blog

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.

com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid

/197939/

it talks a bit about the rifle above , it's an Ellis-Jennings 10 shot rifle

Of course, Issac Jennings figured out how it wouldn't jam full of blood and grit in battle.

what a shit rifle

I wonder why it didnt catch on ? .. er cos it didnt work ?

interesting but i wouldnt be around when it backfires and every bullet blows into your face one after the other.

I love these antique things

....?h

Talking about weapons of mass destruction, hah! If that piece of scrap iron worked, history would've been full with it, but there is nothing. These days we call it a scam.

Lu, using today's vocabulary, in 1821 many would have called it innovative and a prototype. Even in retrospect we can see it as both. Like many prototypes it did not catch on. How is that a scam?

yeah seems like a prototype . perhaps never fired

Seems to me like the idea was adopted by the Metal Storm concept. Look it up on Google or on their site: www.metalstorm.com