themic
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ah, right, handy... missed that difference back when i was looking at em.
Why Not More Gas Operated Pistols?
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Vern Humphrey
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I'm amazed no one has brought up the issue of belt-fed, tripod mounted handguns.
dude This guy was an absolute peach! More money than sense. He got interested in shooting as a result of hanging around some of us who do. The first pistol he fired was sensible-a 4 inch model 10 of his sons. He then went to the gun store and bought a 2 inch Model 19, and after the first shot he fired, he was closing-not blinking his eyes when he pulled the trigger! I pulled him aside and told him that was pretty much an experts pistol, and either get some 38 wadcutters to practice with or get a heavier pistol. He traded the 19 in at a pretty good loss for a DE in 357-well, I have to say it sure was heavier!
As his son reloads, he didn't think twice-just picked up a box of 158 grain lead and started banging away, with predictable results. I didn't know much about DE's until that day, and I'd like to buy it off him as its the old 357 on the smaller frame, but he has learned his lesson well and has since become a pretty fair pistolero.
As his son reloads, he didn't think twice-just picked up a box of 158 grain lead and started banging away, with predictable results. I didn't know much about DE's until that day, and I'd like to buy it off him as its the old 357 on the smaller frame, but he has learned his lesson well and has since become a pretty fair pistolero.
Johnny C. Kitchens
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Wildey...
Wildey actually purchased the rights to the Husqvarna design for his pistol...
On the idea of hydraulic buffers for guns, there was one offered in the 60's. Winchester even offered it as an option. They raved about how it worked, but it made the butt of the gun look weird...
Wildey actually purchased the rights to the Husqvarna design for his pistol...
On the idea of hydraulic buffers for guns, there was one offered in the 60's. Winchester even offered it as an option. They raved about how it worked, but it made the butt of the gun look weird...
faustulus
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Dude,
Technically aren't all semi autos 'gas operated'? But I was going by the gas retardations system as being the closest thing in pistol form, at least to my knowlege.
Technically aren't all semi autos 'gas operated'? But I was going by the gas retardations system as being the closest thing in pistol form, at least to my knowlege.
dude
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methinks recoil/inertia would be the primary op-system for auto pistols
............with gas opertated stuff being like the AR, FN, G3 and Desert Eagle op system
............with gas opertated stuff being like the AR, FN, G3 and Desert Eagle op system
"Off the top of my head, benefits would include fixed barrel, lower barrel axis, lighter slide, simpler manufacture, and looser tolerances equating to greater reliability"
They already have something like that, it's called a 'blow-back' design...
They already have something like that, it's called a 'blow-back' design...
faustulus
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and what do you theorize creates that 'equal and opposite reaction? I know what you are saying and I agree, but the expansion of gases and newton's law are what allow a semiauto pistol to work.
Vern Humphrey
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Which is why we don't need all kinds of plumbing to make the gas do what it already does.
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