10 gauge Beehive round??

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What do you guys think about a three barreled affair in 22 LR with 7 inches of rifled length to fit into a hinge actioned shotgun?
It would take the place of a single shotshell and all three chambers would fire at once of course.

Costly?
Useless?
Dangerous?
 
Would you have to change the firing pin to a larger size to contact all 3 rims? Useless yes but could be interesting. My 10 ga weighs 11 lbs 6 ozs. That's a big ass 22 to carry
 
sgt.rock said:
sorry, I mean is there any kind of drawing's, or artist "rendition", or something that would give someone who doesn't have a clue, an idea of what something like that would look like?
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Picture a 10ga shell with 3 22LR barrels sticking out of the crimp end some 5". The brass base would probably thread off of the "shell" to expose the breach end of the 3 barrels to facilitate loading and unloading of the 22LRs. The brass "base" would have a primer in its base like any other base BUT instead of a flash hole that would ignite the powder charge in a standard hull, it has a spring loaded firing pin that when the primer goes off it is drove forward into the 3 rifle cartridges.


Good Idea. I have my grandfathers ancient 12ga hammer gun. I don't trust the damascus barrels to a 12ga shell but a 12ga beehive would work fine as the steel 12ga hull shaped reciever and 7" barrel stubs are doing all the work not the damascus 12ga barrels.....always wanted to shoot grandpas gun

Have lathe will dabble
 
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The only concern I have is that the threaded base cap is what is containing the 22LR pressure.
The shotgun actions breech/bolt face keeps the base stationary but the hull and barrel portion of the beehive would try to come away from the cap, so forward....it seems to me that this beehive would need to head space on both the rim @ the bolt face/ breech. AND off of the front of the chamber. Makes it a tricky thing to install AND would only properly fit 1 chamber.
Put it in a shallow chamber and the action won't close...put it in a longer chamber and now both ends are not supported and it will try to blow its self in half.....hmm...tricky

In order for the threads on the base to withstand the 3 22LR cases pressure alone without both the front and rear embutment surfaces the threads would need to be substantial, more so than a 12 or 10 ga chamber combined with 3 22LR chambers contained with in could provide the neccessary space to acomodate
 
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Or enough of a restriction....some barrels don't have a forcing cone and either way it needs to head space correctly off of either the forcing cone or the front of the chamber AND the breech/bolt face while also having a rim to facilitate ejection
 
I think that if you thinned the rim out and carefully fit the beehive to a paticular chamber with the ejector removed on brake actions than it could be done.
Certainly for A 22LR if not 3...I would need to accurately dimension out al the parts to see if you could confine 3 within a 10ga or 12ga
 
In the eyes of the law, could that device be deemed to be something that can fire more than one round with the pull of a trigger?
 
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