A novel solution to the age old problem of ‘How can I avoid getting myself killed in a fight?’.
This design allowed a WW1 soldier to fire from complete cover. All sides had some similar variant of this concept.
Wow!! Reminds me of those more modern around-the-corner guns. I haven’t thought of that in many many years till this post lol
As an aside, FireTower, you’re killing it with this sub!
Thanks! If you liked that I just posted another experimental design for shooting around corners.
I actually did post the Krummlauf because of this, scroll a bit more.
I just had the CornerShot on my mind so I posted it a bit after.
Nice, just saw it. This has always been one of my favorites.
Trench warfare must make Hell’s architect quite jealous
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Ian actually wrote about this when he made the post on his website after shooting it.
The literature says that recoil is mild, and the periscope actually moves away form the shooter when fired. This is not the case.
The periscope goes right back into the shooter’s eye, because it has a very short eye relief.
It looks like it dove tails into the stock. I’d think it’d been more secure to mount it to the receiver.
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I suppose I’d rather get hit by a scope than a bullet.
Thanks, I noticed a couple people mentioning Forgotten Weapons in passing while browsing then decided to see if we couldn’t get a community started.
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Yeah, that was me too. If you’ve seen a picture of a gun on Lemmy in the past 2-3 days that’d probably be me.
I’m trying to grow the community to a point where it’s kept alive by just other people posting. I’ve posted like 10+ times a day since then & spread out so I’m not spamming all.
Pretty much every design you see today has some aspects that someone did long before it. Like how the Gyrojet I posted about shot rocket ammunition just like the Volcanic Pistol I posted.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
The “not getting yourself killed” is simple, just don’t fight. This is more of “how can I kill others without getting killed”.
