3 Videos of Making a Revolving Shotgun From Scratch

If you like guns and/or mechanical stuff and DIY, I think you’re going to enjoy this. It shows one old gunsmith creating a six-shot revolving 12 gauge shotgun–from scratch!

I wish the quality of these videos was better, but it’s hard to beat the actual content of them. The first video opens with the aged gunsmith, Robert H McCrory, holding his homemade creation and telling us a little about it. Then we move on to where it all began.

He started by hacking the chambers off of a half-dozen old “scrap shotgun barrels,” and went on from there.

Here’s the first video: enjoy.

Video number two follows:

And finally, video 3. This one even shows him firing the gun after doing more “together-putting” and taking care of some finishing touches.

What do you think of his project? I like it a lot!

Russ Chastain

Editor & Contributing Writer Russ Chastain is a lifelong hunter and shooter who has spent his life learning about hunting, shooting, guns, ammunition, gunsmithing, reloading, and bullet casting. He started toting his own gun in the woods at age nine and he's pursued deer with rifles since 1982, so his hunting knowledge has been growing for more than three and a half decades. His desire and ability to share this knowledge with others has also grown, and Russ has been professionally writing and editing original hunting & shooting content since 1998. Russ Chastain has a passion for sharing accurate, honest, interesting hunting & shooting knowledge and stories with people of all skill levels.