Winchester 8 Gauge Industrial Shotguns

The Firearms Blog ^ | 22 June, 2018 | Hrachya H

[marktwain]

Industrial shotguns have been in use for a very long time, however, this is a category of firearms that is mostly unknown to firearm enthusiasts. I decided to write this short article to tell about the industrial shotguns and their use on the example of currently produced 8 gauge Winchester industrial shotguns.

Winchester “Ringblaster” Industrial Tool

When you think about industrial guns you probably imagine a nail gun or something like that. That is arguably the most known alternative use of firearms. However, there are big bore industrial shotguns that are designed to be used in industries such as steel industry where often times there is a need to remove excessive or built up materials from furnaces. As you can imagine, doing a manual work in such environments is not the quickest, easiest and safest job. That’s why they use these shotguns to do the job from a safe distance.

Winchester “Western” Industrial Tool

Winchester Industrial Products makes two such shotguns called Ringblaster Industrial Tool and Western Industrial tool. Here is how these shotguns are described on the company’s website:

[marktwain]

The Firearms Blog is way too large and successful a publication to be considered a mere "blog", just as freerepublic is far more than a mere blog.

But the use of the term Blog in their name made inclusing in the blog category necessary.

This story has a very cool video of the 8 gauge semi-auto guns in action.

[OKSooner]

Never knew there was such a thing.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That would make a nice street sweeper for riot control.

[Bonemaker]

“That would make a nice street sweeper for riot control. “

Great minds think alike.

[hardspunned]

I need a set up like that for the rabbits in my garden.

[DBrow]

How much do these things cost, I wonder? I had never heard of one. They carefully don’t use “firearm” anywhere, so a search is unlikely to pick them up.

[dirtboy]

When I was in Tulsa, my neighbor had a 10 gauge double barrel goose gun. I thought that was a big honkin’ gun, but 8 gauge?

[Lazamataz]

2 GGE SHOTGUN

[vladimir998]

Neither did I.

[IronJack]

I believe there used to be an 8-guage shotgun called a “punt gun” that was used for waterfowl hunting. It was mounted on a swivel on a small rowboat.

[antidemoncrat]

Where can I buy one?

[cyclotic]

A recently passed friend of mine told me that he once accidentally fired both barrels of a ten gauge at once. ouch

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Illinois Basin coals tend to have a lower ash fusion temperature.
Slag can form in the upper reaches of a boiler, blocking heart transfer in the super heat section.
Thus, a shotgun is often found in the boiler room.

[BBB333]

“That’s nuthin’ - I got me a 6 gauge” - John Kerry (served in Vietnam)

[niteowl77]

When I was a kid, there was a good-sized, coal-fired generating station a few miles from town. Every so often, one of the employees had to open an access door at the bottom of the stack(s) and "knock the soot out." This was done by essentially crouching just outside the door, holding the shotgun sort of at arms length, firing a round up the stack and getting the hell out of the way as quickly as possible.

They utilized a cheap 12 gauge shotgun, and the grownups who had to perform the task did not consider it "fun" after having done it once.

[marktwain]

This one went for $3,250 with 50 cartridges.

http://www.icollector.com/Rare-Winchester-Ringblaster-Kiln-Gun_i11705306

[donozark]

Once fired an Ithaca Roadblocker. 10 Gauge. I never did that again! LOL! If you want to know what it feels like to be a wine cork and get “corkscrewed” fire all 3 rounds rapid fire....

[Bartholomew Roberts]

I like this blog!

Much better than the one that shows how many watermelons you can shoot through with a .50 cal when you don’t aim or use a backstop!

[Robert A Cook PE]

I’ve heard the shots go off while working elsewhere in the plants. Blanks (shock blast only) or do they load a solid fragible clay or salt load above the powder ?

[sauropod]

Bkmk!