Our friend Alejandro de Quesada from http://www.adeqfirearms.com/
was out at the club recently at AREA 51 firing the
Hotchkiss Cannon
The term "Hotchkiss gun" also refers to the Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon, a revolving barrel machine gun invented in 1872 by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss (1826–1885), founder of Hotchkiss et Cie. It was a built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moved in a mortise cut completely through the jacket. It was designed to be light enough to travel with cavalry, and had an effective range beyond that of rifled small-arms
The first gun purchased by the U.S. military from the French arms firm of Hotchkiss was employed against the Nez Percés in 1877. Over the next twenty years the U.S. would purchase 56. They were used at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, and again in Cuba for the attack on San Juan Hill and in the
Alex has over thirty years of experience with a multitude of rare historical weapons, in addition to current weapons as an armorer, collector, museum curator, weapons wrangler, and as a participant in living history presentations and reenactments.
AdeQ Firearms Company
4921 W. Cypress Street
4921 W. Cypress Street
Tampa, FL 33607
