Post/Discuss weird/prototype guns
Nato Battle Rifle since 1951.
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>>65143036it's a famous gun, but the G11 LMG's magazine fascinates me. 300 rounds, in separate single-stack wells in a box mag supposedly without springs with a lever scraping the new rounds off the top somehow.
Here's a bizarre gun I just don't understand. It looks rather normal in this pic, the weirdness will be apparent in the next one.
>>65143599This is a 'Vena contracta' shotgun. It takes 12ga shells but has tapered barrels with 20ga muzzles. Okay, so the concept makes sense, and is pretty cool really: let's make a shotgun that carries like a 20ga but shoots like a 12ga. The problem is that it weighs just as much as a 12ga....and it's only proofed for 7/8 oz of shot. So, despite the intent, what they actually built was a gun that carries like a 12ga but hits like a 20. What the fuck is the point of that?
>>65143562There is some real beauty to this one. Just a delight to look at.
>>65143063I love the EM2 but it being bulpup has always felt odd, the world war two era and bulpups felt like two very separate worlds in my mind
>>65143036Thunderstruck S333 in the prototype stage:
>>65143725Thunderstruck S333 as a finished product:
>>65143705They were, Weren't we supposed to be living on Mars flying space ships by now.Nucear fuel is to cheap to measure.
>>65143726>>65143725Was this the one with super bad keyholing issues? i was just thinking about it the other day
>>65143737>the world if the bongs adopted the EM-2
>>65143556when i saw it in person i had no idea it existed and was so confused
>>65143705>I love the EM2 but it being bulpup has always felt odd, the world war two era and bulpups felt like two very separate worlds in my mindthat's why you aint never gonna get no pussy, busta
>>65143749The world if America followed the clever bongs rather then the Nazis.Go figure.There were clever non Nazi Americans that could have made it happen easily.
>>65143748Yes, though if I recall correctly, they supposedly fixed it a bit by extending the barrel, and something something with the barrels.
>>65143833>The world if America had not fought the Nazis or supplied the SovietsFTFY
>>65143556>>65143783I want to see how these function. Does that whole assembly, including the trigger, slide backwards?
>>65144254the truth is nobody knows. There just about zero information on this gun. I don't even know if it has all its parts.
>>65144295p.d: actually, in the pic by the other guy it shows the firing pin, which is missing from my pic!
>>65144295I'm curious if there are any old patent documents on it? Old Euro patents are a pain in the ass to search, I've done it a handful of times for British inventions. I've never bothered to try for that rifle, but I'm curious if anyone has?
>>65144254Like the other anon says its not well known how it operates. I suspect that the part which looks like a trigger might not be a trigger at all, but is actually a bolt handle. It looks like this is a combination of a falling block and a bolt action. The piece the "trigger" is attached to appears to slide upward which would then unlock the bolt. Perhaps it is both a locking block and a trigger, though I'm not sure how you're supposed to hold it so you could pull the "trigger". I imagine you operate the action by putting your thumb on the top of that "falling block" with your finger on the "trigger". When you want to unlock you lift the block upward, then pull it to the rear using the "trigger" once it is unlocked.
>>65143063Seeeexoooo!>>65143480heh...my peenus weenus...
The reds made some mean guns but holy hell they sucked so hard with aesthetic
>>65143705When did you realise that you were a shallow, broken, man with no concept of beauty?
>>65145023Does that fold for storage?
>>65143725:DDDDDDDDDDDD
>>65143594What, is it just an elastic band?
The original Hi-Power prototype that Browning was working on before his death. Closer to a Savage pistol of the era than the final product.
>>65144697I had Gemini do a Deep Research on it and it appears that the "trigger" is the bolt handle and the true trigger is the piece on the top, which you push down to fire. The idea was to make reloading as fast as possible. You fire with your thumb and pull back the bolt with your other fingers. The slopbot wasn't able to find any patents; it's possible that there wasn't one? That or it is not digitized. It mentions that it was featured in an article of a local magazine in 1900 but I am not able to access it; the link to the digital archive is dead. You can perhaps find it in the national library in Buenos Aires but I can't teleport there so..
>>65145427Certainly looks the part for sure, however like the final product, this prototype was meant to shoot two rounds at a time.
>>65143892Rifle them?
>>65146822They've always been rifled, but after checking again, the gen III model of the s333 uses individual barrels rather than the block barrels from the prior generations.
