This is a video I recently found on YouTube. This is a video comparing rifles from history.
The comparison method is simple. It’s how fast and how accurately you fire with 5 rounds, including taking out the bullets from the magazine. I don’t know the exact distance to the target, but no matter how far I catch it, it won’t exceed 100m. One 50m?
There are four types of firearms to be compared: single shot/bolt action/straight full bolt action/semi-auto. Then let’s see how the result turns out. At the same time, it’s fun to see how each gun, especially the old ones, are loaded and manipulated.
First of all, it’s short hair. Springfield Trapdoor, 1884.
It fired 5 shots and hit 4 shots, which took almost 43 seconds.
It’s a bit slow because it’s an action that was originally a full-featured weapon, but it’s still a lot faster than a full-featured rifle. Needless to say, it can be loaded from any position.
Next up is the 1878 Remington Rolling Block.
The Remington Rolling Block is a firearm developed from the ground up, so its reload speed is relatively fast. Despite the fact that the cartridge removal is a bit more inconvenient than the Springfield Trapdoor, it is quite fast with a total hit of five rounds and a time of 38.5 seconds.
This gun was used by the U.S. military at the time of Shinmiyangyo. In 38.5 seconds, the matchlock used by the Joseon Army fires one shot, and there is a high possibility that the second round of reloading has not been completed yet. Where will the fight be?
Then go to bolt action. 1895 Mouser Rifle. This gun was used by the Chilean Army. caliber 7mm.
Hit 4 out of 5 shots. The time is 16.42 seconds. Instantly increases speed by less than half that of a single shot.
Even though it’s manual, it shows how much difference between single and continuous shots. There’s a reason why most European powers just got single shot rifles in the 1870’s and replaced them with bolt action guns in less than a decade or so. You can’t play a single shot once morest bolt action.
Next is Lee Enfield. No.1 Mk.5, aka ‘jungle carbine’.
Lee Enfield’s speed is 15.2 seconds to hit all bullets (5 rounds). Reenfield is fast, but the speed difference is just over a second. Of course, there are other factors such as the skill of the shooter, but it can be seen that the rate of fire is not enough to give a decisive difference from the Mouser.
No, why don’t you change the magazine and use a clip… Some of you may say, but in practice, I did not change the magazine, but used a clip like this.
Next up is the omega of the bolt action world? Rolex? It is, following all, a Swiss gun.
Schmidt-Rubin 1911. Straight pull. It doesn’t lift the load handle, it just moves back and forth.
Hit 4 out of 5 shots. 13.07 seconds.
It’s definitely fast, but it’s not terribly fast. In addition, this speed may have been due to the smooth operation of the Swiss-made down as much as the difference in operation method. It is worth considering that it is a Swiss luxury item.
The next batter (?) is another straight pull method. Austrian Manricher M1895.
This gun was the mainstay of the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. I hit all five shots, but the time was 21.19 seconds.
It’s faster than a single shot, but it’s really annoying because it covers the whole bolt action (…).
The cause is the use of ammunition. Since the bullet is spherical in the rimmed case, the sending, feeding, and discharging of bullets are not smooth. Theoretically, it should be faster to reload than Mouser’s peel-off clip, as it is a way to put the clip in the clip with the ammunition tied to it (the same as the Garand), but as you can see, it’s not at all. This method is not widespread in the bolt action world for a number of reasons.
Then semi-auto. The most famous semi-auto of the past is also the M1 Garand.
Although it is semi-automatic, the speed is not terribly fast when aiming fire. However, it fires 5 rounds in 11.69 seconds, and hits all bullets. Considering that Switzerland’s luxury goods are also a bit off and a little slower than this, semi-automatics have an advantage.
Besides, this is an 8-shot. Considering that most other bolt actions are five shots, it is true that they have a comparative advantage in firepower.
However, not all semi-automatics are competent. The next player is the Egyptian Hakim semi-automatic rifle.
It is a redesigned gun for 7.92x57mm (Mauser ammunition), which was mainly used in the field during license production of Sweden’s Jungman Ag42b rifle in the 1950s. It was later replaced with AK, and many of them were exported to the United States, where they managed to sell at a low price.
3 out of 5 hits (…). The time is 19.29 seconds (…….).
I did it. Semi-auto lost to bolt action. It would be really hard to do this.
Of course, a significant part of this time was consumed by the ambiguous method of reloading. Of course, since it’s 10 shots, it’s faster than bolt action compared to firing ten shots, but it’s semi-automatic…
For reference, as you will see in the second half of this gun, loading and shooting is a hard march. The session included in the record was a yangban. Even the shooter can openly declare that this is Ttong.
However, if you look at the comparison of the various rifles, it’s easy to understand how advances in operation have affected firepower. It would have been interesting to compare with modern AR and AK, but at this point…
