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Recoil operation

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223:(both bullet and propellant in one easily interchangeable unit) made these designs viable. The earliest mention of recoil operation in the British patent literature is a patent by Joseph Whitworth filed in 1855 which proposed to use recoil to partially open the breech of a rifle, the breech then being manually pulled the rest of the way back by hand. Around this time, an American by the name of Regulus Pilon is sometimes stated to have patented in Britain a gun that used a limited form of recoil operation. He had three British patents related to firearms around the 1850s to the 1860s; however, all of them refer to a means of dampening recoil in firearms, which wasn't a new idea at the time, rather than true recoil operation. The next to mention recoil operation in the British patent literature is by Alexander Blakely in 1862, who clearly describes using the recoil of a fired cannon to open the breech. In 1864 after the 563:, developed by Carl Axel Theodor Sjögren in the early 1900s, a Swedish engineer who was awarded a number of patents for his inertia operated design between 1900 and 1908 and sold about 5,000 automatic shotguns using the system in 1908–1909. In a reversal of the other designs, some inertia systems use nearly the entire firearm as the recoiling component, with only the bolt remaining stationary during firing. Because of this, the inertia system is only applied to heavily recoiling firearms, particularly shotguns. A similar system using inertia operation was then developed by Paolo Benelli in the early 1980s and patented in 1986. With the exception of Sjögren's shotguns and rifles in the early 1900s, all inertia-operated firearms made until 2012 were either made by 227:, Denmark started a program intended to develop a gun that used the recoil of a fired shot to reload the firearm, though a working model wouldn't be produced until 1888. Later in the 1870s, a Swedish captain called D. H. Friberg patented a design which introduced both flapper-locking and the fully automatic recoil operated machine gun. Furthermore, in 1875 a means of cocking a rifle through recoil was patented through the patent agent Frank Wirth by a German called Otto Emmerich. Finally came Maxim's 1883 automatic recoil operated machine gun which introduced the modern age of automatic machine guns. 66: 245: 530: 588:
position in a rest or with the stock against the ground will not allow it to recoil sufficiently to operate the mechanism. Likewise, care must be exercised when modifying weapons of this type (e.g. addition of extended magazines or ammunition storage on the stock), as any sizable increase in weapon mass can reduce the work done from recoil below that required to cycle the action.
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automatic gun that dates from the same year, but its type and method of operation are unknown. Recoil-operation, if it was invented in 1663, would then lie dormant until the 19th century, when a number of inventors started to patent designs featuring recoil operation; this was due to the fact that the integrated disposable
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forward by its spring. The bolt is held in position until the barrel returns completely forward during which time the spent cartridge has been extracted and ejected, and a new shell has been positioned from the magazine. The bolt is released and forced closed by its recoil spring, chambering a fresh round.
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use recoil to cock the hammer and advance the cylinder. In these designs, the barrel and cylinder are affixed to an upper frame which recoils atop a sub-frame. As the upper receiver recoils, the cylinder is advanced and hammer cocked, functions that are usually done manually. Notable examples are the
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As the recoil spring returns to its uncompressed state, it pushes the bolt body backward with sufficient force to cycle the action. The bolt body unlocks and retracts the bolt head, extracts and ejects the cartridge, cocks the hammer, and compresses the return spring. Once the bolt reaches the end of
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holds another portion motionless relative to a mass such as the ground, a ship's gun mount, or a human holding the firearm. The moving and the motionless masses are coupled by a spring that absorbs the recoil energy as it is compressed by the movement and then expands providing energy for the rest of
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Before firing, the bolt body is separated from the locked bolt head by a stiff spring. As the shotgun recoils after firing, inertia of the bolt body is large enough for it to remain stationary while the recoiling gun and locked bolt head move rearward. This movement compresses the spring between the
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action. In 1885 a locked breech, long recoil action was patented by the Britons Schlund and Arthur. In a long recoil action, the barrel and bolt remain locked together during recoil, compressing the recoil springs. Following this rearward movement, the bolt locks to the rear and the barrel is forced
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The earliest mention of recoil used to assist the loading of firearms is sometimes claimed to be in 1663 when an Englishman called Palmer proposed to employ either it or gases tapped along a barrel to do so. However no one has been able to verify this claim in recent times, although there is another
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method of operation. Short recoil operation differs from long recoil operation in that the barrel and bolt recoil together only a short distance before they unlock and separate. The barrel stops quickly, and the bolt continues rearward, compressing the recoil spring and performing the automated
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to be used, from standard to magnum loads, as long as they provide the minimum recoil level to compress the spring. Note that the shotgun must be free to recoil for this to work—the compressibility of the shooter's body is sufficient to allow this movement, but firing the shotgun from a secure
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bolt head and bolt body, storing the energy required to cycle the action. Since the spring can only be compressed a certain amount, this limits the amount of force the spring can absorb, and provides an inherent level of self-regulation to the action, allowing a wide range of
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The barrel from a Para Ordnance P12.45, an M1911-derived design which uses short recoil operation. Under recoil, the barrel moves back in the frame, rotating the link (shown in the unlocked position), which causes the rear of the barrel to tip down and disengage from the
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design with factory springs is optimized for a 230-grain (15 g) bullet at factory velocity. Changes in caliber or drastic changes in bullet weight and/or velocity require modifications to spring weight or slide mass to compensate. Similarly the use of
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must generate sufficient recoil to provide that momentum. Therefore, recoil-operated firearms work best with a cartridge that yields a momentum approximately equal to that for which the mechanism was optimized. For example, the
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The method of locking and unlocking the barrel differentiates the wide array of short recoil designs. Most common are the John Browning tilting barrel designs based on either the swinging link and locking lugs as used in the
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is a moving part of the action in recoil-operated firearms. In non-recoil-operated firearms, it is generally the entire firearm that recoils. However, in recoil-operated firearms, only a portion of the firearm recoils while
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Upon firing, the firearm recoils backwards into the shooter's body. The inertial mass remains stationary, compressing a spring. The bolt remains locked to the barrel, which in turn is rigidly attached to the
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heavy machine gun which has been in service with the Russian military and Middle Eastern armed forces since 1949. Melvin Johnson also used the short recoil principle in his
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The long recoil system was invented in the late 19th century and dominated the automatic shotgun market for more than half that century before it was supplanted by new
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to normalize the recoil force of a blank round (with no projectile) with the greater force of a live round, in order to allow the mechanism to cycle properly.
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extraction and feeding process. During the last portion of its forward travel, the bolt locks into the barrel and pushes the barrel back into battery.
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Upon firing, bolt and barrel recoil backwards a short distance while locked together. Near the end of the barrel travel, the bolt and barrel unlock.
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firearms lack the use of a bolt but instead a moving barrel that gets dragged forward by the bullet until it leaves the barrel to cycle its action.
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An alternative design concept for recoil-operated firearms is the inertia operated system, the first practical use of it being the
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The barrel stops, but the unlocked bolt continues to move to the rear, ejecting the empty shell and compressing the recoil spring.
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While the short recoil design is most common in pistols, the very first short-recoil–operated firearm was also the first
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its travel, the return spring provides the force to chamber the next round from the magazine, and lock the bolt closed.
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firearms uses an operation that delays the bolt opening until the gas pressure is at a safe level to extract.
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introduced the inertia-operated A5 (trademarked as Kinematic Drive) as successor to the long-recoil operated
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Bolt is held to rear, while barrel unlocks and returns to battery under spring force. Fired round is ejected.
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also cause all or a portion of the firearm to move in the opposite direction. The result is required by the
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firearms use the expanding gas impinging on the cartridge itself to push the bolt of the firearm rearward.
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The compressed spring forces the inertial mass rearwards until it transfers its momentum to the bolt.
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The bolt unlocks and moves to the rear, ejecting the fired round and compressing the return spring.
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Recoil of firing forces bolt and barrel fully to the rear, compressing the return springs for both.
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Bolt returns under spring force, loads new round. Barrel locks in place as it returns to battery.
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The shooter recovers from the shot, moving the firearm forward into position for the next shot.
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Since there is a minimum momentum required to operate a recoil-operated firearm's action, the
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firearms tap off a small amount of the expanding gas to power the moving parts of the action.
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The bolt returns to battery under spring force, loading a new round and locking into place.
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Recoil-operated designs are broadly categorized by how the parts move under recoil.
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rifle, other rifles using short recoil are LWRCI SMG 45and LoneStar Future Weapons
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The bolt returns forward under spring force, loading a new round into the barrel.
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or used a design licensed from Benelli, such as the Franchi Affinity. Then the
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Ready to fire position. Bolt is locked to barrel, both are fully forward.
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Ready to fire position. Bolt is locked to barrel, both are fully forward.
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Ready to fire position. Bolt is locked to barrel, both are fully forward.
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designs. While Browning halted production of the Auto-5 design in 1999,
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such that the ejecta momentum and recoiling momentum are equal. These
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Block diagram of short recoil operation cycle. See diagram key above.
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will typically cause the mechanism not to work correctly, unless
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Muzzle boosters are also used on some recoil-operated firearms'
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Ejecta mass × ejecta velocity = recoiling mass × recoil velocity
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Block diagram of inertia operation cycle, see diagram key above
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Bolt locks into barrel, and forces barrel to return to battery.
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Key for recoil operation diagrams. Gun fires to the right.
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Some short-recoil–operated firearms, such as the German
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and larger, while low-pressure pistol cartridges of
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