I finally ended up with a fairly reliable feed but it was strictly cut and try starting with the basic Bruce feed. A 22LR cartridge weighs practically nothing compared to a 45-70, so the feed mechanism has to friction free and correctly dimensioned to be reliable. Since a Gatling is essentially gravity fed, there are inherent problems when going from 45-70 to 22 LR. I bought every book I could find on the real Gatling gun and did some research on the various cartridge feed systems. it just wasnt a project I wanted to invest that amount of time and money into and possibly end up with a non functioning piece -The plans are stuck in a drawer some place.Ībout 10 years ago I bought both sets of plans and ended up building basically the RGG gun, but modified somewhat. Then, with the reading of the length of time that could easily be needed to do this project, and a skill level that I thought I just wasnt quite up to - along with the problems many of the finished guns were having. This was a few years ago when brass was on its rocket ship ride to the stars, and I was having trouble locating barrels (at that time) so material cost was becoming a real issue. I pretty quickly settled on the D&E plans from reading many accounts that gave the edge to them as being the better (tho still with a few glitches). After building all 3 of the CCS Brownings (1917, 1919, & M2/MaDeuce) and the beautiful MG-42 from BigBoy1 (here on the forum) I figured I was ready to tackle a Gatling and proceeded to do research on which plans, degree of difficulty, sense of cost, estimate of build time, etc, etc.
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