Dual Cycle Rifle

by Nicholas C

Published: April 8th, 2014

The Dual Cycle Rifle was a revolver based weapon that was designed to fire a three round burst at a high rate of fire from a single barrel. 4,900 rounds per minute! The inventors noticed that conventional automatic weapons suffer from many complications. Too many oscillating parts and springs surging can induce malfunctions if you increase rates of fire. To eliminate this handicap, they opted for a cylinder design.

Here is the patent for more information.

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Gabe on Apr 08, 2014

Isn't this a similar concept the the Dardick pistol? They developed a machine gun using .50 trounds that had an extremely high rate of fire. Of course the tround concept didn't really take off.

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Max Popenker on Apr 09, 2014

It would be nice to see a link to original post with info on this gun, which is happen to be in my blog: http://mpopenker.livejourna...
also, the patent you link is for 3-chamber US Army / GD rifle; this one is GATX rifle (see commend from mr.Waters above), which has 9 chambers

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- Nicholas C on Apr 09, 2014
  
  @Max Popenker Thanks Max. When I tried to translate your post, it was difficult to understand. A fault of Google Translate.
  
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- Max Popenker on Apr 09, 2014
  
  @Nicholas C You always can ask me directly, it will be much easier.
  
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