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12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:05 am
by The Wizard
Does anyone know if anyone if they make a 12ga beehive round like this one? http://www.onlythebestfirearms.com/beehive.html
maybe that shoots like 5 instead of 10.

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:12 am
by Cybrludite
The ones a buddy of mine picked up from a gun show a while back were a joke. Most wouldn't go through the paper target, much less the plywood behind it.

ETA, the ones he had were nothing like the one in your link.

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:22 am
by Denis
No idea.

For $600, I think I would buy a Ruger 10/22 instead, and learn to cycle the trigger really quickly, or just shoot 12-ga buckshot. From a rifled barrel that short, there can hardly be any accuracy gain, and it will be lost by the bullets crowding down the barrel of the shotgun anyway.

I used to have a 7.5x55 to .22 conversion cartridge. It was basically for delivering a "coup de grace" behind an animal's ear. It was also rifled, but accuracy at anything beyond touching distances was abysmal.

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:07 pm
by SoupOrMan
There's no way that's going to work against Chicago's City Hall. I'd stick with regular buckshot or slugs.

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:18 pm
by Windy Wilson
How does that work, anyway? :? It looks like it should be a salt shaker or a pasta press. ;)

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:42 pm
by Fill
Windy Wilson wrote:How does that work, anyway? :? It looks like it should be a salt shaker or a pasta press. ;)
you load it with several rimfires. The firing pin on the shotgun looses 10 rounds of 22.

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Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:53 pm
by Gunnuts
There's a discussion here with a drawing some guy had for a three round 12 gauge beehive.

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:39 pm
by The Wizard
CByrneIV wrote:And THAT friends, is a machine gun according to the ATF.

More than one round of fixed ammunition is fired with each actuation of the firing mechanism.
i thought that it wasnt a machine gun because it is only one 40mm or 12ga round fired at one time...? just sending multiple projectiles at once just like standard buckshot does

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:58 am
by SeekHer
What Chris said.

If you want to inaccurately shoot ten .220 pellets from your shotgun then why not just shoot #F shot (.220) and get 28 pellets to the ounce?

Other then having run out of shotshells and you've stockpiled a shit load of rimfire I can not conceive of an application for this device.

Bulls and teats come to mind!

Re: 12Ga Beehive Round??

Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:55 am
by HTRN
SeekHer wrote:Other then having run out of shotshells and you've stockpiled a shit load of rimfire I can not conceive of an application for this device.
I can - it's called "having something to shoot out of a nice shiny new 40mm grenade launcher that doesn't cost 20 bucks each time you pull the trigger".


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