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A recoil pad is a piece of rubber, foam, leather, or other soft material usually attached to the buttstock of a rifle or shotgun. Recoil pads may also be worn around the shoulder with straps, placing the soft material between the buttstock and the shoulder of the person firing the gun. The purpose of this device is to provide additional padding ...
The grenade launcher is attached to special brackets, welded to the host assault rifle. To fire the GSN-19 accurately and comfortably, the host rifle is equipped with a special folding grenade launching sight (attached to the base of the standard rear sight) and with a removable, rubber, recoil-absorbing butt pad.
The simplest form of recoil buffer is made from a resilient and deformable material (leather, rubber, polymer e.g. a rubber butt pad on a shotgun). [1] A second way of producing a recoil buffer is to insert a spring into the recoil train—the path/part(s) generating recoil impulse.
The rifle is a semi-automatic, gas operated weapon with the piston located beneath the barrel and ammunition feed from a detachable top-mounted magazine with bottom ejection for the spent cartridges. To reduce recoil, the rifle is equipped with a five-hole muzzle brake and a padded leather recoil pad. The barrel has a wooden jacket to allow for ...
When using the rifle to launch grenades, a special rubber recoil pad is used and a special 10-round magazine is inserted. [2] This magazine has a filler block that prevents it from being used with "normal" (i.e. bulleted) cartridges. There is also a regular version of this rifle as well that was not designed to shoot grenades. [3]
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The vest features more pronounced shoulder pads than on 6B23 for comfortable resting of the rifle butt against the shoulder and preventing it from slipping during shooting and aiming. A major improvement over previous armor is the 6B45 collar.
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