Was cleaning the gun room this week and found my old paintball gear from eras gone by. Gave it to my oldest son.
But it triggered an old thought I had awhile back with a method about (possibly) how to make semi-auto firearms more accurate.
My idea was to eliminate the barrel port on an AR-15, rework the gas "plumbing" on the gas operation system to accept a feed from a high pressure N2 paintball tank (with appropriate valving), then wire an electronic microswitch to be activated on the RETURN of the trigger.
So you pull the trigger, the gun goes boom, no gas is bled off to cycle the weapon which can make your shot placement inconsistent. You release the trigger and during the release process the N2 valve fires, cycling the weapon.
No grit in the gun (it won't crap where it eats, anymore), no accuracy degradation, and you could even gain the ability to add a push button "cycle my weapon" feature (since you could cycle on demand instead of only when fired).
Is this idea too far out there? Or does it sound like something that may work, and have some benefits?
Might help our British brethren who can't own gas-operated semi-automatic firearms - it would give them the ability to actually cycle their weapons (via N2) without having to yank the charging handle each shot.
Essentially it (should) have the accuracy of a bolt gun with the features of a semi-auto.
But it triggered an old thought I had awhile back with a method about (possibly) how to make semi-auto firearms more accurate.
My idea was to eliminate the barrel port on an AR-15, rework the gas "plumbing" on the gas operation system to accept a feed from a high pressure N2 paintball tank (with appropriate valving), then wire an electronic microswitch to be activated on the RETURN of the trigger.
So you pull the trigger, the gun goes boom, no gas is bled off to cycle the weapon which can make your shot placement inconsistent. You release the trigger and during the release process the N2 valve fires, cycling the weapon.
No grit in the gun (it won't crap where it eats, anymore), no accuracy degradation, and you could even gain the ability to add a push button "cycle my weapon" feature (since you could cycle on demand instead of only when fired).
Is this idea too far out there? Or does it sound like something that may work, and have some benefits?
Might help our British brethren who can't own gas-operated semi-automatic firearms - it would give them the ability to actually cycle their weapons (via N2) without having to yank the charging handle each shot.
Essentially it (should) have the accuracy of a bolt gun with the features of a semi-auto.