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.

  • awnery@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    initially i thought the periscope must be fixed to the rifle stock to improve accuracy, but i guess that would be a 100% hit to the operator’s face compared to the much lower chance of hitting a target

    • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • awnery@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        a little mild recoil into the good eye of a rifleman repeatedly. cool.

        i like your posts

        • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • awnery@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            i thought i’d seen you post about that nine barrel volley gun, maybe somehere else, but that’s a heckuva wiki trail, with the “infernal machine” and the Korean hwacha medieval rocket-powered arrow barrage

            • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              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.