[TML] Ditzie Spofulam: The Later Years

[The Sayat Menace]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 6:13 AM, Grimmund wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:57 PM, The Sayat Menace
> <sayatmenace at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> "It's a magazine-loaded multi-barrelled elephant gun," Miss  
>> Hazelstone replied.  "Its rate of fire is forty bullets a minute  
>> and it can incapacitate a charging elephant at a thousand yards."
>
> Caseless ammo?
>
> Or some huge cased ammo, so that the owner can tinker with the bullets
> and powder loads?
>
> Caseless would be easier to engineer, handloads have a certain appeal,
> except for the rate of fire....
>
> Hmmm....  A magazine fed .450 Nitro Express....

Don't forget the four barrels. I have no idea how it would work  
mechanically, but I think it's one of the key elements.

Later in the book, the ever-resourceful Konstabel Els rigs a row of  
machine guns to a coffee table in order to charge Ditzie's -- I mean,  
"Miss Hazelstone's" bedroom, which is fine as it goes, but it lacks  
that special Spofulam touch, you know?

K.

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