Ah yes, the Chicago Victrola. The last sound you’ll hear is your master’s voice, bitch.
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It needs the RCA dog as its K 9 mascot.
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…Rear Admiral D.V. Gallery, the man under whose command the U-505 was captured, covered this in his book “Cap’n Fatso” quite nicely…
(The crew of an LST is attempting to modify a 20mm gun into a saluting battery for a 21 gun salute for a State visit)
‘”We got a small boom because we’re shooting with a small barrel,” said Satchmo. “We need a sort of an amplifier to magnify the boom. If I took the bell off the end of my horn, all I’d get out of it would be a small squawk, no matter how hard I blowed. But if you made the same kind of a boom we got now inside a big barrel, it would come out a much louder and deeper boom. It’s like the pipes of an organ. The high-pitch notes come out of a small pipe. The deep low-pitch notes come out of great big pipes.”
“We’ll bear that in mind when we install a pipe organ on this bucket,” said Webfoot scornfully.
“You’re just like every other ordnance expert I’ve ever seen, Webfoot,” said Fatso. “When somebody else comes up with a new idea, the first thing you do is hang out the NOT INVENTED HERE sign. . . . What’s your idea, Satch?”
“We got a lot of steel pipe on board, that the marines use for laying pipe lines. The inside diameter is six inches. If you slide a piece of that pipe over the barrel of our little 20 mm. gun, it will act like the pipe of a big organ. It will make a big hollow boom, like a real six-inch gun.”
“I think he’s nuts,” said Webfoot, using the standard Navy argument against any new idea. “You’d blow that pipe into a
million pieces and kill everybody on the top side.”
“Now wait a minute,” said the Professor. “I think Satch has got something. Those blank charges we’re using won’t hurt the pipe a damn bit. It oughta make a real deep boom, just like Satch says. … I think it’s worth trying, Cap’n”
“Okay,” said Fatso. “Let’s try it.”
Half an hour later, Scuttlebutt and the boys had completed the job of converting their standard 20 mm. gun into a sixth-inch smooth bore. An eight-foot length of steel pipe had been slid over the barrel of the popgun and jammed in place with wedges. A wooden sleeve around the muzzle of the small gun held the pipe with its center in line with that of the bore. Spot welds to the mount held the pipe in place.
I doubt if the Bureau of Ordinance would have approved this alteration to standard equipment if ithad been submitted through official channels. And it would have taken at least two years, anyway,to get an answer out of the Bureau on a technical matter like this. Fatso inspected the job carefully and said, “Looks okay to me. But I want all hands under cover the first time we shoot it.”A few minutes later, with all hands crouching behind the bulwarks on the port side, Fatso gavethe signal to fire, and Webfoot yanked the long firing landyard.The gun made a great hollow BOOM”
(Good book, BTW. You can read it on SCRIBD at the link above. In fact, I would recommend ALL of the Admiral’s works, both fiction and nonfiction, I am NOT a sefaring man myself but the Admiral can put you on a ship so well you can feel the salt spray in a hurricane wind, and I bet even our Navy veterans here would enjoy reading him)
Love it!
Turn it up to 11.
Colt Blunderbuss…
Comes in 33-1/3, 45, & 78 caliber…
*Elevated sights not included.
Concealed carry is a BITCH though…
Comes with Telefunken-U47 100 round mag…
Funny, something about it reminds me of that AOC graphic that BFH posts on the main page every so often.
Pete Buttyjudge stares straight into the barrel and gets excited.
Does it come in black to go with my gun?
Sledge Hammer had one back in the 80s.
Not as kool-looking as that one, though.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
That’s the second biggest loudencer I’ve ever seen.
The Biden signature model is a blunder short-bus…
I think I could get it into my ass …
^^^ pete, yew might have to pull the Tesla out first to make room…
^^^ Naaaaaaaahhhhhhh
Sledge Hammer beat him to it 30 plus years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WKM9GDuX0Y
Ah yes, the Chicago Victrola. The last sound you’ll hear is your master’s voice, bitch.
It needs the RCA dog as its K 9 mascot.
…Rear Admiral D.V. Gallery, the man under whose command the U-505 was captured, covered this in his book “Cap’n Fatso” quite nicely…
(The crew of an LST is attempting to modify a 20mm gun into a saluting battery for a 21 gun salute for a State visit)
‘”We got a small boom because we’re shooting with a small barrel,” said Satchmo. “We need a sort of an amplifier to magnify the boom. If I took the bell off the end of my horn, all I’d get out of it would be a small squawk, no matter how hard I blowed. But if you made the same kind of a boom we got now inside a big barrel, it would come out a much louder and deeper boom. It’s like the pipes of an organ. The high-pitch notes come out of a small pipe. The deep low-pitch notes come out of great big pipes.”
“We’ll bear that in mind when we install a pipe organ on this bucket,” said Webfoot scornfully.
“You’re just like every other ordnance expert I’ve ever seen, Webfoot,” said Fatso. “When somebody else comes up with a new idea, the first thing you do is hang out the NOT INVENTED HERE sign. . . . What’s your idea, Satch?”
“We got a lot of steel pipe on board, that the marines use for laying pipe lines. The inside diameter is six inches. If you slide a piece of that pipe over the barrel of our little 20 mm. gun, it will act like the pipe of a big organ. It will make a big hollow boom, like a real six-inch gun.”
“I think he’s nuts,” said Webfoot, using the standard Navy argument against any new idea. “You’d blow that pipe into a
million pieces and kill everybody on the top side.”
“Now wait a minute,” said the Professor. “I think Satch has got something. Those blank charges we’re using won’t hurt the pipe a damn bit. It oughta make a real deep boom, just like Satch says. … I think it’s worth trying, Cap’n”
“Okay,” said Fatso. “Let’s try it.”
Half an hour later, Scuttlebutt and the boys had completed the job of converting their standard 20 mm. gun into a sixth-inch smooth bore. An eight-foot length of steel pipe had been slid over the barrel of the popgun and jammed in place with wedges. A wooden sleeve around the muzzle of the small gun held the pipe with its center in line with that of the bore. Spot welds to the mount held the pipe in place.
I doubt if the Bureau of Ordinance would have approved this alteration to standard equipment if ithad been submitted through official channels. And it would have taken at least two years, anyway,to get an answer out of the Bureau on a technical matter like this. Fatso inspected the job carefully and said, “Looks okay to me. But I want all hands under cover the first time we shoot it.”A few minutes later, with all hands crouching behind the bulwarks on the port side, Fatso gavethe signal to fire, and Webfoot yanked the long firing landyard.The gun made a great hollow BOOM”
https://www.scribd.com/document/319876816/Daniel-v-Gallery-Cap-n-Fatso-Warner-Paperback-Library-1973
(Good book, BTW. You can read it on SCRIBD at the link above. In fact, I would recommend ALL of the Admiral’s works, both fiction and nonfiction, I am NOT a sefaring man myself but the Admiral can put you on a ship so well you can feel the salt spray in a hurricane wind, and I bet even our Navy veterans here would enjoy reading him)
The Chicago Victrola needs a bigger dick!
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!
I guess size does matter…..