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Sasquatch-1
07-12-2013, 04:20 PM
Has anyone actually used one of these?
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Ugly as sin but a very unique look and operation.
williamwaco
07-12-2013, 04:58 PM
Yes.
Around 1960 or a little after.
I could only shoot it three times though because the trounds were too expensive.
(And harder to find than 22.LR today )
Like most of these ideas, it was a solution in search of a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardick_tround
You can find it in action on you tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKE2YwtcTXE
Mk42gunner
07-12-2013, 11:22 PM
And here I thought the Liberator of WWII fame didn't have anything modeled after it...
Aw, who am I trying to kid-- IF one came my way with ammo, I would have to try it out.
Robert
nhrifle
07-12-2013, 11:40 PM
Ten years ago I had the chance but I couldn't justify spending $50 per round just to fire it.
EMC45
07-13-2013, 09:38 AM
Trounds................
L Ross
07-13-2013, 10:48 AM
Yup, Trounds, (triangular/rounds), plastic cased, triangular in cross section with a brass base holding the primer, if I remember correctly from my Dad's cartridge collection about 50 years ago. Pale green, not quite aqua plastic by the way.
Duke
Big Rack
07-13-2013, 11:13 AM
I think there is a youtube video showing one being fired with views of the ammo. Believe I read a magazine article years ago that said they had some success with a full automatic rifle version firing ceramic bullets for eating through hard rock in mining. As I recall the "trounds" could be fed from the top through a rotating bolt and then drop out of the bottom for a high cyclic rate.
I like to see a Gyrojet being fired.....maybe I oughta check yuotube...
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