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Semi-automatic shotguns use gas operation, blowback, or recoil operation to cycle the action, eject the empty shell, and load another round. [2] The first semi-automatic shotgun was the Automatic-5 by Browning. [3] [1] Many semi-automatic shotguns also provide an optional manual means of operation such as by pump action or a charging handle.
The recoil operation is a type of locked-breech action used in semi-automatic and fully automatic firearms. It also uses energy from the combustion in the chamber acting directly on the bolt through the cartridge head, but in this case the firearm has a reciprocating barrel and breech assembly, combined with a bolt that locks to the breech.
While Browning halted production of the Auto-5 design in 1999, Franchi still makes a long-recoil–operated shotgun line, the AL-48, which shares both the original Browning action design, and the "humpbacked" appearance of the original Auto-5. Other weapons based on the Browning system were the Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifle (1906), the ...
Browning Auto-5: FN Herstal: 12 gauge 16 gauge 20 gauge: SA SG Tubular magazine United States Belgium: 1898 Browning Double Automatic Shotgun: Browning Arms Company FN Herstal: 12 gauge: SA SG Single loading port United States: 1955 Derya MK [3] [4] Derya VR-60 [5] Derya VR-90 [6] Derya Bullpup N-100 [7] Derya Arms: 12 gauge 20 gauge: SA SG ...
Browning Double Automatic Shotgun: Browning Arms Company FN Herstal: 12 gauge United States Belgium: 1955 Browning Superposed: Browning Arms Company: 12 gauge 16 gauge 20 gauge United States Belgium: 1922 Ciener Ultimate Over/Under: Johnathan Arthur Ciener 12 gauge United States: 1989 Cooey 84: H. W. Cooey Machine & Arms Company: 12 gauge 16 ...
Modern pump-action designs are a little slower than a semi-automatic shotgun, but the pump-action offers greater flexibility in selection of shotshells, allowing the shooter to mix different types of loads and for using low-power or specialty loads. Semi-automatic shotguns must use some of the energy of each round fired to cycle their actions ...
This situation is encountered on some single-shot rifles, single-shot pistols (such as the break-action Thompson/Center Contender), and on some break-action single- and double-barrel shotguns. In bolt-action, lever-action, pump-action, semi-automatic, and fully automatic firearms, the extractor typically works in conjunction with a separate ...
An automatic shotgun is an automatic firearm that fires shotgun shells (thereby making it a shotgun) and uses some of the energy of each shot to automatically cycle the action and load a new round. [1] It will fire repeatedly until the trigger is released or ammunition runs out. Automatic shotguns have a very limited range, but provide ...