Break-open weapon
Drop barrel guns are handguns , mostly long guns , revolvers and single-shot target pistols , in which the cartridge chamber is released by tilting the barrel or barrel assembly , thus enabling loading. Even compressed air weapons such as air rifles are usually made ready to fire again by tilting the barrel.
technology
Modern break-open rifles have extractor claws or ejectors that pull or eject the empty cases from the chamber when the gun is opened, thus making reloading easier. The break-barrel system is mostly used in hunting rifles such as shotguns , rifles , combined weapons , as well as revolvers and signal pistols . The repeating system has prevailed for single-barreled rifles and shotguns .
Drop barrel weapons can be dismantled into the following parts without tools:
- Barrel or barrel bundle
- Forend
- Buttstock with screwed-on receiver
In modern shotguns and classic treble hooks , the locks are mainly cocked when the barrels are bent. The weapon is ready to fire again after loading and locking. A separate ball clamp is used on some triplets.
Single shot rifles usually have a cocking slide on the top of the receiver, which, depending on the model, is cocked separately for each shot.
Shotguns and bullet weapons with one or two barrels lying next to each other are also made with external taps.
Closures
The following locking systems for drop barrel weapons are common:
- Greener closure
- Kersten closure or double greener
- Purdey closure
- Flank closure
- Barrel hook lock or wedge lock
- Tilt block closure
Locks
The following locks are common and are to be regarded as main categories:
- Box lock
- Sidelock
- Lightning lock
- Two or one hand clamping systems
Types
Long guns
The following types of weapons are common. The combination possibilities of barrels are only limited by the skills of the gunsmith and the ease of use:
- Single shot rifle - a shot barrel
- Single-barreled, single-shot shotguns
- Double rifle - two juxtaposed ball barrels of the same caliber
- Over and under rifle - two ball barrels of the same caliber lying one above the other
- Bergstutzen - two superposed ball barrels of different caliber
- Side -by-side shotgun - two side-by-side shotgun barrels of the same caliber
- Over and under shotgun - two shotgun barrels of the same caliber, one above the other
- Over and under rifle - ball and shotgun barrels lying one above the other
- Rifle shotgun - ball and shotgun barrels lying next to each other
- Normal treble - two shotgun barrels of the same caliber lying next to each other and a ball barrel arranged in the middle below
- Three of a kind, barrel on top - two rifle barrels of the same caliber lying next to each other and a barrel above them in the middle
- Double rifle drilling - two ball barrels of the same caliber lying next to each other and a shotgun barrel arranged below in the middle
- Over and under rifle drilling - triumphal block, shotgun barrel and two ball barrels of different caliber arranged diagonally one below the other
- Rifle gun drilling - two identical rifle barrels and one shotgun barrel, arrangement basis for rifle shotguns, vertically mirrored arrangement with Blaser-Duo
- Ranger treble - two shotgun barrels lying next to each other and a ball barrel arranged above in a closed season caliber (e.g. .22 Hornet )
- Quadruple - T-quadruplet (T-shape), rail quadruplets or double rifle quadruplets arranged in a cross shape, often with two shotgun and two ball barrels or as a safari quadruple with four ball barrels (usually two to three different calibers)
Note: Weapons with barrels arranged one above the other are sometimes referred to as “over and under rifles / shotguns”. This is a pleonasm ("white mold"). In weapons technology, barrels lying one on top of the other are correctly referred to as "Bock ..." ("jacked up"), barrels lying next to one another as "Double ...". A "double weapon" would have to have four barrels.
Handguns
literature
- Heinrich Weidinger: Hunting weapons between tradition and progress. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen March 2008, ISBN 978-3-7888-1089-4 .
- Walter Lampel, Richard Mahrholdt, Jürgen Ahlborn: Weapons Lexicon . BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich et al. 1998, ISBN 3-405-15369-7 .
- Klaus-Peter König: The great book of weapon technology. Rifles, shotguns and automatic weapons in detail. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-613-01004-6 .
- Ilse Haseder , Gerhard Stinglwagner : Knaurs Großes Jagdlexikon , Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-1579-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Haseder, p. 397