Sorta OT: Industrial Kiln Guns

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Posted: 8/5/2018 11:15:47 PM EDT

This is interesting. Our company used to use 8 gauge slug guns to blast away slag in rotary furnaces.

The "Kiln Gun" folder has paperwork from the two big companies - Remington, and Winchester-Western/Ramset. They were not cheap, costing $1100 in 1960, each. I think we used both guns at one time or another.

There are a lot of non-dimensioned blueprints, like this. Interested in them?

Posted: 8/6/2018 12:05:39 AM EDT

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Slag guns are still used today in most older type coal powered power plants.

Posted: 8/6/2018 12:25:12 AM EDT

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Neat!

Posted: 8/6/2018 12:55:52 AM EDT

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I still want a 8ga SxS

Wish modern technology would make stuff like that easy.

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Posted: 8/6/2018 1:13:22 AM EDT

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There was a youtube video of one posted on here before.

Posted: 8/6/2018 8:48:35 AM EDT

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Massively, yes. If you'd be willing, could you gather all of the photos once uploaded and post a link to the imgur gallery? It would make downloading a backup copy much easier.

Posted: 8/6/2018 9:29:39 AM EDT

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I have a dream of 4x triple-bbld 10 gauges on a punt...

Posted: 8/6/2018 1:22:20 PM EDT

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Little small for a punt gun.

Just go for a few inches and black powder.

Posted: 8/6/2018 2:20:17 PM EDT

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Can't go larger than 10 ga on ducks here. Brits can still hunt with up to 1.75” or something. Still, 12x 10 ga bbls of Hevi-shot near simultaneously should do something.

Posted: 8/9/2018 1:03:41 PM EDT

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Can't go larger than 10 ga on ducks here. Brits can still hunt with up to 1.75” or something. Still, 12x 10 ga bbls of Hevi-shot near simultaneously should do something.

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It would do something all right. It would make your wallet $15 lighter every time you shot it, let alone what the thing would cost.

For ducks....??? I would rather have an autoloader in 12ga.

For the shock n awe, I can see that, if you have the money to burn. It would be insane to throw that much shot down range. It would have to put a smile on your face. Sometimes it’s worth the expenditure to just smile like a little kid.

Posted: 8/9/2018 8:17:29 PM EDT

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It would do something all right. It would make your wallet $15 lighter every time you shot it, let alone what the thing would cost.

For ducks....??? I would rather have an autoloader in 12ga.

For the shock n awe, I can see that, if you have the money to burn. It would be insane to throw that much shot down range. It would have to put a smile on your face. Sometimes it’s worth the expenditure to just smile like a little kid.

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Quoted: Can't go larger than 10 ga on ducks here. Brits can still hunt with up to 1.75” or something. Still, 12x 10 ga bbls of Hevi-shot near simultaneously should do something.

It would do something all right. It would make your wallet $15 lighter every time you shot it, let alone what the thing would cost.

For ducks....??? I would rather have an autoloader in 12ga.

For the shock n awe, I can see that, if you have the money to burn. It would be insane to throw that much shot down range. It would have to put a smile on your face. Sometimes it’s worth the expenditure to just smile like a little kid.

Punt-gunning is very nearly a lost art. The largest gauge we can hunt with is 10 ga, but:

1) we're not limited in how many shots we set off simultaneously (up to 3 per gun);
2) we're not limited to a single gun;
3) we're not limited to length of shell;
4) while the gun has to be fired from the shoulder, it doesn't say we can't brace it against the boat;
5) you can fit two people in a punt.

With 12x 10ga bbls, in 4x O/U, w/ horizontal spreader chokes, set off nearly simultaneously, I would think the effect would be much like an original punt gun. If fired subsonically, with integral suppressors, I suspect the effect could be murderous.

Posted: 8/12/2018 9:14:20 AM EDT

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There are a lot of non-dimensioned blueprints, like this. Interested in them?

Massively, yes. If you'd be willing, could you gather all of the photos once uploaded and post a link to the imgur gallery? It would make downloading a backup copy much easier.

Still quite interested, if you end up having time to photograph or scan the schematics.

Posted: 8/12/2018 3:27:00 PM EDT

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The 8 gauge side by sides where a thing of the past and more around the time of BP loads and punt guns centuries back.
Hence hunted with one in my youth during a fox hunt, and with the amount of smoke produced, and recoil as well, can not phantom touching one off with a smokeless power full loads of today strength while sitting in a boat goose hunting instead.

As for the slag guns, have fires both the 8 gauge and the 4 gauge versions, and no way in hell that I would every dream of such in a 4 gauge SXS shoulder fired instead. Hell, half few shots in with a SXS 8 gauge even standing with the current slag loads, and trip to do the doctor would be in order to reset your should back in the socket.

Truth is, now in my longer tooth years, still shot a 10 gauge, but it's a semi auto to suck up a lot of the recoil; with the old 10 Gauge side by sides left as wall hangers display pieces isntead.