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By The Armorer on July 27, 2007 | | Comments (7)

Hey izzit me, or are these guys older than the gun?

Union Civil War re-enactors from New York fire two-gun salutes with a Parrot rifle at the 90th anniversary celebration of Fort Dix, New Jersey, July 18.

Union Civil War re-enactors from New York fire two-gun salutes with a Parrot rifle at the 90th anniversary celebration of Fort Dix, New Jersey, July 18.

Of course, they're all younger than Bill. Even the original guns...

Of course, a gun like that would look good snuggled between the Castle flagpoles...

Hi-res available here. If you want the original (about twice the size of the higher-res one) drop me an email.

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By Trias on July 27, 2007 10:08 AM
That is called a parrot rifle? Some kind of internal joke?
 
By BillT on July 27, 2007 10:29 AM
Yup. Made for rifled birdshot...
 
By JimC on July 27, 2007 10:45 AM
Actually Parrott artillery has a confused history concerning nomenclature. The Army and the Navy called the same gun by a different nomenclature. See http://www.cwartillery.org/ve/parrott.html The Parrott rifle was so called because of the rifled barrel vs the smoothbore artillery.
   
By Trias on July 27, 2007 11:42 AM
Oh damn there goes my theory of flocks of parrots steadying their aim with tiny little rifles... Polly wants a crack bang
 
By BillT on July 27, 2007 4:42 PM
Fire mission! Platoon of budgies in the open, millet seed in effect...
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on July 27, 2007 9:41 PM
"OOhh, look ... a four-leaf clover." Note the early model Pendular Recoil Ameliorating Device. Cheers
 
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