Can anyone point me in the direction of where I can access some good, clear cutaway cross esction pictures of the rifle bolt action mechanism ? Cheers, Malladyne.
Rifle bolts Thanks, chaps, for your replies. Any type of bolt action rifle will do, but my preference would be a rifle that has been designed for military use. I will certainly check out the website suggested, thanks ! Malladyne.
Re: Rifle bolts i dnt think i can get cut aways but i can get basic describtions of the main WW2 bolt types
you might be interested in parts of this page. http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl02-e.htm althoe i do not think it is what you are looking for it, it has an exploded view K98 action. Also you might want to look at this one from teh same webpage. I hope this is more of what ypou are lookign for. http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl18-e.htm
Bolt action. Thanks, Gunter, for the websites you suggested. They did provide what I requested, but I am still unsure as to how the spring mechanism works in order to move the firing pin forward after a round has been chambered by use of the bolt. However, I am sure that further exploration of these websites will ultimately provide the answer I need. Incidentally, further exploration on my part of your websites did at least answer a question that has been bugging me for a long time- and that is was the US M-1 Carbine ever useable in a fully automatic mode ? The answer is NO, although I have seen footage of M-1's being used in Korea that certainly looked like they WERE fully automatic..........I guess that their users must have been working those triggers real fast ! Cheers, Malladyne.
I have a vague memory that the M1 could be easily modified to full auto... But that is only a vague memory. Tony?
M1 fully auto ? Oh, so I still cannot be sure that it only fired on a S/A basis ? I must say that the Korean war footage I saw really gave me to believe that it WAS being fired on fully automatic ( it was being fired by a big and heavy senior officer and he was being well knocked back by the recoil- something he surely would have been able to brace himself against if his M-1 were being fired on S/A ? ) Whilst on the subject of sub machine guns and semi automatic rifles- does any of our readers know where in the USA I can get to fire a Thompson smg ? I have fired off many types of smg but not yet a Tommie. The Southern states seem to be most likely, but even when in Kentucky or Tennessee I have been unable to find a range with an available Tommie for use. Malladyne.
they did make a M-1 carbine that could fire on full auto i believe it was called the M-2 but i need to check, it had a fire selector so it was technically both semi and full auto
Re: M-1 yes i believe so i think they started to produce it either at the end of WW2 of just after I'm not to sure of the dates
Re: M-1 The M2 was standardized in september 1944 and had a 30-round magazine made for it. There was also the M3 which was an M2 but with an infra red scope and that was standardized in august 1945
Yes, the M-2 was the full auto version of the M-1 Carbine. It can be spotted by the "pot belly" stock. The stock has bulge in the trigger/magazine area as to allow room for the automatic mechanism.
