Ok you busted me on that one ! It is a lever type so its a repeating hand gun not a self loader!
Heres a .278 Cal** long arm that hit a world powers arms trials and didnt make the grade.
To be fair this particular rifle Is Missing both of its box mags
*Hint* its a bolt action.
** depending on the sight you find this rifle on one says its a .45Cal the other states its a .275Cal.
Last edited by Rex in OTZ; 01-27-2012 at 09:21 AM.
Bethel Burton Calibre .278 English double magazine bolt action repeating experimental rifle designed by Bethel Burton. Between 1882 and 1886 a number of Bethel Burton experimental rifles were submitted to the English War Office for evaluation and testing. None of these rifles was accepted by the English military. This specimen features a rather unusual straight pull bolt action, with a bolt handle located under the receiver. The bolt handles travels back and forth between the two parts trigger guard. The trigger is located on the right side of the receiver assembly. Both sides of the receiver have magazines ports hidden behind the sliding gates. The magazines were fitted to the both sides of the receiver. English military style ramp and leaf rear sights with no calibration. Steel barrel bands. Brass buttplate with a trap. Some kind of tool (empty case extractor?) is hidden in the buttstock compartment behind the buttplate. Walnut stocks. English type bayonet lug on the right side of the front barrel band. The receiver and barrel display a couple of English commercial proof marks. The right side of the buttstock displays two markings, "Flaming Grenade" and "Two Crossed Cannons and a Circle". The left side of the buttstock displays, "WB" (in a rectangular). The buttplate displays a number, "A1222". Overall length of the rifle is 52.25 inches. Barrel length: 32 inch.
Found this interesting picture, should be an easy one. Caliber: 5.45x39 mm Action: Gas operated, rotating bolt; moving barrel-receiver-gas drive group for delayed recoil action Overall length: 943 mm (728 mm with butt folded) Barrel length: 405 mm Magazine capacity: 30 rounds Weight, without magazine: 3.85 k g Cyclic rate of fire: 1800 and 600 rounds per minute variable (seedescription below for explanation) Maximum effective range: 700 meters
action description, known as the "blow back shifted pulse (BBSP)".
i want to say its an experimental rifle that didnt work out it looks like its a semi also with the spring behind the bolt like that but then again my muzzle loader is like that
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The Union automatic revolver was a .32 calibre revolver of French origin but manufactured in the United States to the Lefever patent (US Patent 944448, 1909). It was similar in action to the Webley Fosbery automatic revolver, but had a shroud that protected the recoiling upper half from contact with the firer's hand[1].
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