The Gun Counter

Darrell wrote:

Greg wrote:

Flintlock Tom wrote:I'm having trouble visualizing a 26" barrel and only a 27.5" OAL.
Manually load a single round through the back of the butt-stock?
And, a 2 round magazine?

The back of the buttstock is the 'breech block' and swings open, so you can manually load a round. Yep, it's a single shot. The striker is under the barrel and travels *rearward* when released, and it hits a rocker that has a nub on it to hit the primer. They've really gone to some trouble to minimize overall length.

This. If you bother to follow links in the original post, the owner says the rifle has a very crisp (unbullpup-like) 1.1 lb pull. I agree that it's not the handsomest gun in the world--that thumbhole stock looks like something from an old Norinco SKS. Consider, though, that all the business end of the action is in that last 1 1/2" of the stock. I think it's rather ingenious. Strictly speaking, is it a bullpup at all?

Netpackrat wrote:That's certainly... different.

First Shirt wrote:I saw a puppy once that was a cross between a wire-haired dachsund and a French bulldog.

It wasn't that ugly.

D5CAV wrote:This looks like a solution in search of a problem.

D5CAV wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2015 4:08 am This looks like a solution in search of a problem.

D5CAV wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2015 4:08 am This looks like a solution in search of a problem.

Bullpups have their place, but the only one I like is the Steyr AUG. It is the only one with a slightly less sucky trigger than every other bullpup, and they all have sucky triggers, just some slightly less sucky than others. The Tavor trigger really sucks; it reminds me of the VP70 trigger.

Kel-Tec managed to design a reasonably good trigger for their .308 bullpup rifle, but it is a very complicated rube-goldberg-esque mechanism to get it to work over that travel distance. I suspect this trigger is of a similar design.

Problems I see with this rifle:
1. the trigger has to be complicated to work in a bullpup design - complicated and reliable are difficult to mix.
2. I'm OK with a 5.56 NATO round under my cheek with the extensive failure testing done by Steyr for the Austrian military, and almost 40 year history of the rifle. I'm not OK with a .300 Win Mag round under my cheek when I pull the trigger, especially with a new, untested design. I'm guessing Mr. Pfeifer didn't intentionally try to blow up his gun with a double charged .300 WM round, like Steyr did (many times).
3. This would be yet another rifle I have to check local gun regs before I put in the truck. I know it won't meet minimum length rules in the PRK.