boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (06/03/91)
In article <35138@mimsy.umd.edu>, I myself wrote:
#
#..... Now, a delayed blowback weapon takes advantage of the
#ballistic fact that if keep the gun "locked up" for just a split second
#after firing the amount of energy imparted to the slide drops considerably.
#Thus, in these guns (for example, a Colt 1911A1) the barrel moves WITH the
#slide for a small distance, which allows pressures to drop significantly.
#The barrel and slide then part ways, and the rest of the sequence is as above.
#I believe John Browning invented this type of action. One advantage with this
#type of action is that you can have a lighter (and thus SMALLER) slide on the
#gun.
I just looked this up, and have found that:
A) John Browning invented THIS particular method of holding the gun in
battery for a split second (that is, the sliding link/locking lug
in slide method).
B) This was not the first delayed blowback gun. Amazingly enough, the
Luger also holds the gun in battery for a short time when fired. A
text I read discusses this type of action on experimental Thompson
machine guns first, but does not really state when or by whom the
delayed blowback method was invented.
Just FYI.
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