It depends on which type of Gatling gun and the firing speed.
The original gatling gun shot a .45 long colt. But the more modern version invented by John Dylan shoots a .308 caliber rifle round. Also the larger gatling cannon shoots a 30mm round.
To quickly fire a lot of bullets.
It didn't replace any gun, it was the first rapid fire weapon to be made.
How did Richard J. Gatling make the Gatling gun
A Gatling Gun works by using a series of rotating barrels to rapidly fire bullets. A motor is used to load and spin the barrels which allows for a high rate of fire with reduced heat buildup.
the first rapid fire gun was the hand crannked gatling gun used in the civil war but the maxim was the first true machine gun which was developed not long after the gatling
The Minigun is Gatling gun where the barrels are powered by an electric motor. The Gatling gun, was a hand cranked, multi-barreled gun.
The inventor of the Gatling gun was Richard Jordan Gatling. The machine gun- like weapon was named after the inventor. He invented it in 1862.
The Gatling Gun followed a long tradition of devices named after the person who invented / designed it.
The gatling gun was invented by Richard Gatling in 1861 (it was a common weapon in the American civil war, i must add).
The original Gatling gun was gravity fed from a hopper of loose cartridges, and held no specific number of rounds of ammunition. Later Gatlings used a stick type magazine, but capacity of those varied from 20 to 50 rounds. The M-134 minigun, a modern Gatling gun used on helicopters and gunships, has a 4000 round belt. There was no ONE gatling gun, and thus no ONE answer.