The Krummlauf curved barrel attachment for the Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle. The attachment comes with a periscope to allow soldiers to shoot around corners.
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Curved barrels for firearms
Sturmgewehr 44 rifle with curved barrel and periscope - GIF
1918 gun barrel manufacturing footage - video
1700s four barrel flintlock pistol - photo
Ok, the Germans are the hands-down winners at developing innovative weapons, This, however, was not their finest moment.
Mythbusters tested it; it works if you define "works" as altering the flight path of the bullet. If you define "works" as a practical weapon, forget it.
use two of them and you can shoot the guy behind you...or yourself and the gun recoils FORWARD.
I have several rifles with the same problem. If I want to hit something, the best thing to do is throw it.
With exception of Road Runner cartoons, it'll still recoil backwards!Originally Posted by jdurand
It'S called a RE-COIL by definition you cannot recoil from something, towards it.
How would you like to be the first guy that had to test it? That would be a little nerve wracking.
Better than being the first to test the Darwin pistol...
mlochala (Nov 17, 2020), old kodger (Nov 4, 2020)
Since I had said use two so it shoots behind you, you'll get a recoil back from accelerating the bullet until it hits the curved part, then you'll get a force pulling away from you as it turns 180 to head backwards. At this point I don't know which would be more, you'd still have expanding gas during the turn so in theory it would still be accelerating.
Probably feel like a springer air rifle, back when you pull the trigger from the inertia of the piston then forward jump when the piston bottoms.
How do you aim the danged thing?
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