This is the subject that inspired the reader's message and made Caiyun think of it. When introducing Colt's peculiar air-blown automatic shell ejection revolver, some readers mentioned that its shell ejection device is very similar to the "strike" (strike) shotgun , and " The "Batterer" shotgun is very popular in many shooting games, so today I will talk about the "Batterer" shotgun.
"Strike" shotgun, which is produced by Penn Arms Company
"Strike" shotgun, this is made by Penn Arms Company
_p9 "Batterer" shotgun is a 12-caliber shotgun, the designer is called Hilton Walker (Hilton Walker), Zimbabwean, then also called Rhodesia. Walker designed the "Batterer" shotgun in 1983. He had already settled in South Africa at this time. When he designed the gun, he received financial support from the South African Armsel company, but the gun was later handed in. Produced by Aserma Manufacturing.
Amsel’s first version of the "strike" shotgun
oversized revolver _1span4span _span4p When the handguard is pulled and pushed, the bullets in the tubular magazine under the barrel are lifted, lifted, and pushed into the barrel. The problem with the tubular magazine is that the capacity of the magazine is determined by the length of the magazine.To achieve a large ammunition capacity, it is necessary to add a very long and long magazine, which is obviously unrealistic, so most shotguns that use a tubular magazine have a capacity of about 5 rounds.
Walker designed the "strike" shotgun with a wild idea. First of all, it has a capacity of 12 rounds. In order to load these 12 rounds, a heavy drum was designed, and then it was not. Automatic weapons, there is no reciprocating bolt action, there is no air-guided, tube retreat or free bolt action principle, but it can trigger one shot with one trigger and one shot with one trigger like a semi-automatic weapon...This is again How is it done? Let’s take the "Batterer" shotgun produced by Penn Corporation of the United States as an example, and explain it with the animation:
The "Batterer" can shoot continuously like a semi-automatic shotgun
original " The 12-round "drum" of the "Batterer" shotgun is not exactly a drum, but something similar to a revolver cartridge. In this "drum", the bullets are inserted in a bullet nest made of steel liners. When a steel liner with bullets is turned to the 12 o'clock position and aligned with the barrel, it can be fired by pulling the trigger. This bullet was also fired in the bullet nest when it was fired. The bullet nest had to take on the role of the chamber, and this "drum" was fixed on the gun and could not be unloaded and reloaded. So the "Batterer" is not a semi-automatic shotgun, it is more like an oversized double-action revolver.
However, the drum driving method of the "strike" is different from the double-action revolver. Trigger drive The trigger force will be too great to bear, so it is driven by a clockwork spring. There is a knob in the center of the drum of "Batterer". You can turn the knob to wind the spring of the drum. Every time you pull the trigger, the grapple that controls the drum is released once.The mainspring drives the drum to rotate one frame, so that the next bullet nest is aligned with the barrel.
Rotate the knob to wind the drum mainspring
Pull the trigger once and the drum rotates one step.
It’s very interesting to reload the "strike" drum, more like reloading an old revolver with a valve, but first turn the knob on the front of the drum, about two and a half turns , Tighten the spring, and then load the drum from the filling port on the right side of the gun body. Load a round and press the upper lever after the grip once. The function is to make the drum rotate one space without releasing the firing needle. , Align the next bullet nest to the filling port, press the lever again to rotate one grid, and load another round...until all 12 bullet nests are filled, then re-tighten the clockwork and start shooting.
Load one shot, press the lever on the tail once to make the drum rotate one grid, and then install another shot.
The "Batterer" drum produced by Payne has a curved bullet baffle behind it to prevent bullets from falling out.
As long as one turn of the drum, the baffle will automatically fall, without blocking the shell ejection.
The first version of South Africa Amsel’s "Batterer" shotgun must be used to manually eject the shells one by one with the ejector lever on the side of the barrel like an old-fashioned valve loading revolver. . In order to improve this shortcoming, the "Batterer" shotgun produced by Penn Corporation of the United States added an air-blowing shell ejection device, which led out a gunpowder gas on the side of the barrel and aimed at the 10 o'clock bullet nest, which was just fired. The empty shell that turned to the 10 o'clock position was blown out backwards. The blown out empty shell will be blocked by a plastic baffle on the right side of the gun body, and will not directly hit the shooter's face, but will fall to the ground after hitting the plastic baffle.
The plastic baffle behind the drum,The plastic baffle plate, the rear part of the gun body and the grip are all integrally formed by injection molding.
The "Batterer" shotgun uses a jet of gunpowder gas to realize automatic shell ejection, and the blown shell is blocked by the baffle plate before falling.
When 12 rounds of bullets are lit, the last empty shell will remain in the drum. At this time, like an old revolver, the shooter has to move the ejector lever on the side of the barrel once to empty it. Top the bullet case out.
The last empty shell needs to be manually ejected with the ejector lever
Compared with the tubular magazine, the drum of the "Batterer" shotgun does not increase the length of the gun (of course, the cost is Compared with the semi-automatic shotgun with box-type magazines, this kind of clockwork-driven drum does not work with gunpowder and gas. It uses ammunition with different loads and different chamber pressures (such as full-charged ammunition). There is no problem of excessively large or small gas power. It has its advantages, of course, its shortcomings are not small, the structure is too complicated, the operation steps are too many, and the horizontal size of the appearance is too large. Too bloated.
A derivative of the “strike”
After the “strike” shotgun was put into production, there was no manual blow-off shell ejection device because of the initial version. Shelling is very inconvenient, so the output is small. For this reason, Hilton Walker designed a simplified version of the "Batterer" shotgun. The mainspring that drives the drum was cancelled. Instead, the front grip was used to drive the drum through a connecting rod, and the drum was deflected and pulled every time it was fired. A front grip drives the drum to rotate by one grid, and drives the ejector lever to push out an empty cartridge. This shotgun that is changed to manually drive the drum to rotate is called "Protecta" shotgun Gun ,The South African military and police have a small amount of equipment as a multi-purpose anti-riot weapon.
"Guardian" shotgun, because there is no need to wind the drum, the knob on the front of the drum is gone.
"Batterer" has entered the American firearms market. It was first introduced from South Africa by Sentinel Arms (Sentinel Arms, later renamed Penn Arms) from South Africa's Armsell Company in the 1980s. The "Batterer" is patented and produced. The two photos at the beginning of the article and a series of animations showing the principle of action are the American version of the "Batterer". Its characteristics are also introduced in the previous article. The device, the drum loading port has a movable baffle, relatively speaking, this is the most perfect "beater".
The "strike" produced during the period of the Penn Arms Company, this one has a folding buttstock.
Then the American SWD/Cobray company also produced a similar shotgun called " scavenger " (Street Sweeper) shotgun strong 33. Unlike the "Strikes" produced by Sentinel/Payne, the "Sweeper" is an unauthorized and cheap imitation. It does not have the air-blowing shell ejection device of the Sentinel/Payne product, but is like the original version." "Batterer" needs to manually retract the shell after lighting up the bullet. In order to make money in the American civilian market, they also specially produced 18-inch barrel "scavenger" shotguns, in order to circumvent the restrictive provisions of the U.S. Gun Control Law on "short-barrel shotguns" with barrel lengths less than 18 inches. .
SWD/Cobray "Sweeper" shotgun
"Sweeper" shotgun with 18-inch long barrel
"right side scavenger"Since there is no air-blowing shell ejection device, there is no baffle plate on the side wall of the casing.
Whether it is a genuine "strike" authorized by Sentinel/Payne or a copycat "Sweeper" produced by SWD/Cobray, it was originally intended to be sold in the American civilian gun market, but during the Clinton administration , Due to the Democratic Party’s consistent policy of strict control of guns, the "strikeman" shotguns were overturned:
US gun management laws stipulate that weapons with a caliber exceeding 0.5 inches, that is, 12.7mm, are "destructive devices" Mainly include artillery, bazooka, grenade launcher, etc., which are included in the scope of strict control like fully automatic weapons, short rifles, and short shotguns. Ordinary people must pay $200 in tax to buy them, and pass a series of inspections by the Tobacco, Alcohol and Firearms Bureau (ATF) Certification. Originally, this law had an exemption for shotguns-shotguns and sports weapons are exceptions, but the sharp appearance of the "Batterer" shotguns scared the Democratic Party "white left" officials: grass, such a fierce thing. I am ashamed to say that it is a sports weapon? Banned! Therefore, even though the "Batterer" is 12-gauge like other common shotguns, it is not as powerful as it is, but it is excluded from the exemption list and has become a "destructive device". The purchase and holding cost is quite high, which ultimately leads to the "strike". Both the "zhe" and the "scavenger" disappeared from the American civilian firearms market.
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