#Invention
TroubleshooterBerlin Fires His Upside-Down Auto-5 FrankenGun!
Long-time TFB friend Axel, AKA TroubleshooterBerlin is the man behind the mysterious upside-down shotgun we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, just before the 2017 SHOT Show. Miles Vining spoke with Axel about his creation (and I mean creation in the “it’s aliiiiive!” sense) at Ventura Munitions during the show, and now Axel has released his own live fire and discussion video regarding the… What do we call it? The ReMG-42/11, maybe? Just watch:
Operating Systems 101: Short-Recoil
Two basic mechanisms dominate the field of handguns today: The aforementioned straight blowback system, and short-recoil operation. The latter of two is a mechanism as clever as it is old; the first short-recoil weapons date back to the latter half of the 19th Century!
Operating Systems 101: Straight Blowback
The first entry in our coverage of automatic weapon operating mechanisms will be the humble straight blowback method. Conceptually simple, it is one of the most common systems, being applied almost universally to .22 caliber rimfire autoloaders the world over, as well as being very commonly applied to budget centerfire handgun and rifle designs.
Operating Systems 101: Introduction and Foundation
What makes an automatic (or semiautomatic) weapon work? How do these weapons accomplish being able to fire round after round through a single barrel with no interference from the operator? That’s what I aim to explain in this series, which hopefully will give my readers a brief and readily accessible foundation on firearms operating mechanisms. For some of you, many of these articles will not tell you anything you don’t already know, but be patient: I plan to be very thorough in my coverage of different operating mechanisms. The scope of this series will be the operating mechanisms of single-barreled firearms, minus their feeding mechanisms (which I will cover separately).
NDIA's Small Arms Forum Presentations Released
Each year, the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) holds conferences on various defense-related subjects. One of these conferences is the Armament Small Arms Forum, which for this year of 2015 occurred on June 1-3 in Whippany, New Jersey. Anually, after its conclusion, NDIA releases some or all of the PowerPoint files for the presentations given during the conference, as they did so this weekend for the 2015 ASAF. The presentations are now available online, at this link.
