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Some military firearms are designed to fire from an open bolt condition to avoid the unintended discharge of a chambered cartridge cooking off in a gun barrel heated by firing previous cartridges. Activating the trigger of such firearms releases the spring-loaded bolt to move forward stripping a cartridge from the magazine into the chamber.
The Model 535, new for 2005, is similar to the Model 500, but with a lengthened receiver that can fire 3.5-inch (89 mm) shells, in addition to 2.75-inch (70 mm) and 3-inch (76 mm) shells. The 535 is a less expensive alternative to the Mossberg 835 Ulti-Mag, but the 535 lacks the 835's overbored barrel.
Coupled with its five-shot capacity, this made it effective for close combat, such that troops referred to it as a "trench sweeper". This characteristic allowed troops to fire the whole magazine with great speed, known as "slam firing". Shortly before the end of the war, the German government protested the use of shotguns in combat, claiming it ...
A Mossberg 500 12-gauge stockless pump-action shotgun with a pistol grip A Remington Model 760.30-06 Springfield pump-action rifle. Pump action is a type of manual firearm action that is operated by moving a sliding handguard on the gun's forestock.
The autoloading shotgun (semi or fully automatic) offers a higher rate of fire than a pump shotgun, though controlling a heavy recoiling shotgun in rapid fire is difficult. The autoloading action is more suitable for firing from a prone position, as operation of a pump action moves the elbow normally used to support the shotgun, and it can more ...
Mossberg 500: O.F. Mossberg & Sons: 12 gauge 20 gauge.410 bore United States: 1960 Mossberg 590: O.F. Mossberg & Sons: 12 gauge 20 gauge.410 bore United States: 1960 Mossberg 930: O.F. Mossberg & Sons: 12 gauge United States: 2000s MTs-255: TsKIB SOO: 12 gauge 20 gauge 28 gauge 32 gauge.410 bore Russia: 1993 NeoStead 2000: Truvelo Armoury: 12 ...
Mossberg 500: O.F. Mossberg & Sons: Pump action United States: 1960 NeoStead 2000: Truvelo Armoury: Pump action South Africa: 2001 Pindad SG-1: Pindad: Semi-automatic shotgun Indonesia: 2005 QBS-09: Norinco: Semi-automatic shotgun PRC: 2009 Remington Model 10: Remington Arms: Pump action United States: 1908 Remington Model 870: Remington Arms ...
Mossberg 100ATR: O.F. Mossberg & Sons.243 Winchester.308 Winchester. 7mm-08 Remington.30-06 Springfield.270 Winchester United States: 2006 Mossberg 464: O.F. Mossberg & Sons.30-30 Winchester.22 Long Rifle United States: 2008 Mossberg 702 Plinkster: O.F. Mossberg & Sons.22 Long Rifle United States: 2003 Murata rifle: 11×60mmR Murata 8×53mmR ...