Midland Backpack one-shooter?

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This announcement just in, a single shot break action on the folding shotgun concept popularized formerly by Beretta. This version has lots of features people add when they truckgun-ize a shotgun.

I'm not at all familiar with this gun. I do not know where it is made and have not examined one, so if anyone can comment on the quality, the origin, or anything, much appreciated.

A while back, some here were expressing concern over the extinction of the single shot, but here we have a new one in the marketplace and Henry previously announced they were getting into that type as well.

Anyone here know anything about the new Midland?
 
It looks like Midland is a spinoff of Navy Arms.

Lately, I've been hankering for a cheap spare shotgun. Something like this would fit the bill.

There's also unpopulated sections on their website for centerfire and rimfire. Very interesting.
 
I just received a .410 Bore Midland Backpack shotgun with an 18" barrel and I like it a lot (well, have not shot it yet, but it looks surprisingly nice for the price). With all the spacers installed the little shotgun feels pretty good when shouldered. Sells for under $150 and it feels like it would be up for the task when a single shot .410 is desired while backpacking / camping, at the clubhouse, or as a truck gun. It is stamped from the Gibbs Rifle Company http://www.gibbsrifle.com/ but the place I found information on it was on the Midland website https://www.shootmidland.com/collections/shotguns and https://www.shootmidland.com/pages/about.

Now I will have to start looking for a pack / bag that will hold the folded .410 Backpack shotgun, my Henry AR7 Survival Rifle, and some .22lr cartridges and .410 shells.
 
A member of an email list that I'm on called Midland to ask where they are made, since it isn't listed on their website. They are made in Turkey.

I like how the stock LOP is adjustable via spacers. Might be interested in a 20 gauge.
 
Are these the same guns that Iver & Johnson where advertising a year or so back?

I assume that front unguarded trigger looking thing is the action release, nicht wahr? Does it get in the way in the field or when slinging the gun?

Looks like the barrel and receiver group are hinged and do not come fully apart for storage like say and H&R, I&J, or WInchester, so does this not mean storage is more difficult than with a taken down 'Merican gun?

Does anyone make something like a Poly CHoke or C-leck Choke for the Beretta threads?

Any educated guess at what rifles barrels might be offered?

Are the 12, 20, and 410 all on the same frame?

Will the rifled barrels be offered in all frame sizes?

Does your chewing gum loose its flavor on the bed post over night?

Questions, questions.

-kBob
 
il.bill,

Please let us know how your .410 shoot and handles.

Does the .410 also have the screw in choke feature?

I am interested to how the gun might handle slugs and buck shot as well as bird shot.

Has that barrel release gotten in your way yet?

-kBob
 
I assume that front unguarded trigger looking thing is the action release, nicht wahr? Does it get in the way in the field or when slinging the gun?

No problem encountered in my use of the Beretta that (afaik) introduced this type of opening lever.

Looks like the barrel and receiver group are hinged and do not come fully apart for storage like say and H&R, I&J, or WInchester, so does this not mean storage is more difficult than with a taken down 'Merican gun?

I would suppose that this gun, like the Beretta, folds in two. Disassembly is not needed for cleaning or storage.
 

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SO on the Beretta original when one breaks open the action does the barrel drop fully down as though it were being folded? Could it like wack your knee in the field when you un lock it?

-kBob
 
SO on the Beretta original when one breaks open the action does the barrel drop fully down as though it were being folded? Could it like wack your knee in the field when you un lock it?

-kBob

That is correct, but one soon learns another method. Hold onto the forend and ease the buttstock/receiver down and out of battery. It is more convenient to reload that way, too. On my example, the hinge is tight enough that the barrel does not drop with precipitate suddenness even if you release the barrel without holding onto the forend.

It does not handle just like the H&R but it has some nice points of its own, such as an internal hammer that cocks itself.
 
Those look great for stashing on an ATV or behind the seat of a truck. I see that they are going to be offered in .357 as well as the shotgun offerings, that would be ideal for me. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Very nice child's shotgun. Ever since H&R has went out of business, there hasn't been many of these youth shotguns on the market.
 
After a You-Tube search it now appears to me that these do not have an ejector but only an extractor that pushes the case out enough the spent can be grasped with the fingers and pulled free.

This would make second shots more difficult and slow. As a youth I was one of those squirrel hunting kids that did so with one or two .410 shells between the fingers so that when the M37 popped open and it shucked the spent over my right shoulder a new shell was going in the breech as the spent hit the ground. Was able to get both tail chasers from one stop on more than one occasion that way and occasionally three for two shots or three for three.

If I had to shuck the empty out by hand I could not do that.

Still looks like having the hinge means this would be more difficult to store than a take down design, though a lot quicker to get into shooting from the case for the first round.

Anyone know if the Chinese partner/topper knock off are available in the US? If so are they SB2 styles?

-kBob
 
Anybody remember the snake charmer ? I forget the manufacturer but it was a break open single shot in 410 made of stainless with a thumbhole plastic stock. Always thought it would have made a great pack gun.
 
Yep I liked the Snake Charmer I shot (once) and recall the first aftermarket accessory I saw for one......a teenie tiny flashlight, like the disposables doctors and med folks carried clip to a shirt pocket at the time, an actual pen light, set in a hole in the fore stock.

They were a side lever gun by an outfit called H. Koon I believe.

-kBob
 
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