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Song Parodies -> "Gyrojet Pistol Goof"
Original Song Title:
"I Put a Spell on You"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Parody Song Title:
"Gyrojet Pistol Goof"
Parody Written by:
Robert D. Arndt Jr.
The Lyrics
In the 1960s two German-Americans Mainhardt and Biehl of M.B. Associates of San Ramon made a rocket pistol aimed at both the civilian market and US Army. It fired 13x30mm solid fuel rocket bullets and operated in a strange manner. When the trigger was pulled a hammer ahead of the nose tip of the bullet sprung back and struck the nose which pushed the bullet back into a fixed firing pin! The rocket ignited and was propelled via 4 angled venturis that pushed the bullet forward and spun it for stability in flight! Cool idea but poor perfomance. It had a low initial velocity that in seconds dropped quickly. Range was around 900 ft and had low striking power. Accuracy was bad. Carbines were made around the basic pistol mechanism and still failed to interest the US Army. Some were sold as civilian curiosities but overall the gun failed. *The concept was not new either. During WW2 the Germans experimented with rocket guns too in 9mm. Walther made a rocket gun and produced 5000 rds before surrender. The design below...
Gyrojet pistol goof
poor design
13 (mm) rocket gun of no use
Bullets flyin’
With rockets drivin’
Was no demand for it
Took a 13(x30mm) round
Tech came from Germany*
Internal mechanisms were not sound
Gyrojet pistol goof
poor design
Wasted time
Here’s the proof
Here’s the proof
Here’s the proof
Had poor accuracy
Slow in the air
Fall of velocity
900 ft
Military
Gyrojet pistol goof
poor design
(rejected it as oddity)
poor design
13 (mm) rocket gun of no use
Bullets flyin’
With rockets drivin’
Was no demand for it
Took a 13(x30mm) round
Tech came from Germany*
Internal mechanisms were not sound
Gyrojet pistol goof
poor design
Wasted time
Here’s the proof
Here’s the proof
Here’s the proof
Had poor accuracy
Slow in the air
Fall of velocity
900 ft
Military
Gyrojet pistol goof
poor design
(rejected it as oddity)
http://world.guns.ru/userfiles/images/handguns/usa/1/1287739508.jpg http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080329143623/guns/images/5/5c/Gyrojet_Carbine.jpg German WW2 rocket bullet design and bullet: http://gigconceptsinc.com/images/9mmGerRkt-Brit-703x586.jpg http://gigconceptsinc.com/sitebuilder/images/German-Curtis2-549x187.jpg
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I actually had the chance to handle a Gyrojet. The internal parts were not working, so there was no big risk in taking it apart. Very strange. The hammer and trigger were under continual spring tension, but there was nothing to hold them in alignment while the frame, just two stamped clamshell pieces of sheet metal, were reassembled. Don't know how the factory ever put it together in the first place. Ammo worth about $50 each today. Ronald Reagan owned one. Never heard of anyone being shot with a Gyrojet.
I'd much rather own the single prototype of the Sauer Amboss which fired HE compression rounds. 9mm hit on solid obstacles or light armor= 40mm damage!!! Walther's rocket gun was the VRG-45, but have never even seen a photo and of course no pics of the German flak gas guns either (originated in '36 with Austria- Germans picked up through annexation)...
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