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We put about 500 rounds through it in an hour or so of intermittent bullet-spraying, and I can honestly say Ive never had so much fun with fifteen bucks worth of ammo.

I live in a state which prohibits machine guns, and I dont have literally tens of thousands of dollars to blow on one anyway.

For me as for most shooters, Class III full-auto is not and never will be a reality.

Onerous federal and state laws, Byzantine licensing procedures, and the insanely high price of a transferable machine gun place this dream well out of reach for 99.995 of us.

Even if a selective-fire MP5K were only a credit card swipe and an NICS background check, how many of us could afford enough ammo to justify the expense Not me.

Instead of flying a kite or digging for razor clams, heres where I found myself this Saturday.

Oh yeah.

Its all pintle-mounted on a miniature tripod, and it looks like the most badass double barrel paintball gun youve ever seen.

A left-hand pistol grip features a trigger-like lever that pulls the cam into contact with the triggers for firing.

In practice the trigger took a lot of effort to hold back, so we eventually jerry-rigged it with a zip-tie.

The right barrel ejects upward; its easy to charge but throws the sizzling-hot.22 brass directly into your face as you sit or lay down behind the tripod.

A seated firing position protects you somewhat from brass burns, but requires you to walk your rounds onto the target with an even greater sense of randomness.

Some sort of shell deflector would have been a great idea, and the next time we take it out were going to bring a patio bug screen to sit behind.

The quadrant sights seem better suited for leading imaginary ME-109s from the tailgun of your imaginary Flying Fortress than actually hitting a real target.

The words suppressive and rimfire are seldom uttered in tandem, but thats pretty much what you get here.

Single aimed shots are all but impossible because the crank mechanism gives no tactile hint of when the next shot is about to fire.

It was a challenge to hit within five feet of our target, a spoiled bottle of Ranch dressing, with the first few shots.

With the dual Ruger rig, however (in the immortal words of Al Pacino) youre just gettin started.

The standard full-auto technique of short, controlled bursts doesnt apply here, since youll lose your combat zero if you stop cranking and youll have to walk your shots in all over again.

This works out to a cyclic rate of fire of about 500 rounds a minute.

The effective sustained firing rate is less than 100 rounds a minute, because the unsupported magazine wells make mag swaps slow and balky.

If youve got some reliable 50-round magazines, good on you: youll get twelve seconds of fun and an effective sustained firing rate of maybe 150 or 200 rpm.

With aimed fire essentially impossible, youll need a very deep and broad field of fire (or very high backstops all around you) before you even think about loading the magazines and pulling the tri turning the crank.

Its so confusing, maybe its just as well you cant reach them.

A whole day later, I still get an ear-to-ear grin every time I think about the utter joyous folly of spraying box after box of.22s from those twin vented barrels.

With enough pre-loaded 25-round magazines, you could possibly use it to hold off a wave of crazed giant possums shuffling towards you with hate in their beady little eyes, but then again maybe you couldnt.

22 Gatling Gun