#NavalArtillery

This POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, includes a short history lesson and also a quest for those who may know more on the subject.  Finnaccuracy, from Finland, as the name suggest, visited a local museum and found an interesting piece of history. It would be great if we could help them and the museum with more knowledge about the gun.

The Gardner Gun is one of an entire generation of all-but-forgotten* manually operated proto-machine guns. GunLab has begun a series of posts documenting the effort of one Papa Joe (who receives a regular mention there) to reconstruct a Gardner Gun from scratch. Since no blueprints are available, he had to track down an existing Gardner and take precise measurements of every dimension of every part, create his own (electronic) prints, and then construct each piece himself. As if that wasn’t enough, Papa Joe decided that his Gardner would be scaled down and chambered for .22 LR!