"Sawn-off shotgun" from a rifle instead of a pistol - Fightlite Raider

A sawn-off shotgun TOZ-B, seized by Ukrainian police from a man.

You are a cool and very crazy man in the middle of a post-apocalypse.

Or maybe you are a hitman from the Italian mafia and send greetings to the guilty party.

Or maybe a British bank robber.

Or maybe just an uncouth hillbilly from the American outback.

What accessory brings these four together?

Sawed-off hunting rifle

, a smoothbore shotgun with a cut off barrel and butt.

A pistol that barely fits under clothes. Powerful at short distances, but with huge spread. And with such dedication that only the strongest will hold it in his hand. But how cool is it: to shoot at someone with a doublet and send a couple of new cartridges into the barrels!

In life, a sawed-off shotgun varies from “cheap and cheerful” to “cool and impractical,” precisely because of the recoil. The actual combat range does not exceed 20 meters. The scatter occurs not because the barrel is shortened, but because the choke

- a narrowing at the end of the barrel, which reduces this spread. Cut five or fifty centimeters from a gun - the muzzle energy is different, but the dispersion is similar.

The first mass use of sawed-off shotguns - the Wild West. Not everyone could afford a Colt. But any shopkeeper or bartender could keep a deadly weapon made from a cheap hunting rifle on hand. And to shoot well from a Colt, you need to practice a lot, but with a sawn-off shotgun it’s enough to shoot towards the target, and a flurry of buckshot will cover one or two.

During WW1, Americans made sawn-off shotguns for trench battles both from pump-action shotguns that were officially in service, and from just about anything. The command turned a blind eye to this: let them do it if it helps them stay alive. That’s why the American police have a lot of factory-made guns without stock, and they are used as special carbines

: for crowd control, firing gas charges, breaking through doors.
They are often called the same as sawn-off shotguns: sawed-off shotguns
(American) /
sawn-off shotguns
(British)
Attention, overbrain:
this phrase is translated as “sawed-off shotgun” or “shortened shotgun/smoothbore carbine”, depending on the whether the sawn-off shotgun is factory-made.

British gangsters love sawn-off shotguns because they have trouble getting rifled weapons. Americans prefer dull and practical pistols for this purpose. The Italian mafia uses a sawed-off shotgun (the so-called lupara

) as a ritual weapon: the one who is killed with a lupara has done something wrong to the Family, usually embezzlement or talkativeness. Sometimes, in addition, the lupara was loaded with unusual projectiles like chopped nails.

Oh yes. We have our own stamp, kulak cut-off

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the death of the chairman
- a sawn-off shotgun of a Mosin rifle. According to some information, in WWII such sawn-off shotguns were ersatz assault pistols (and the canonical shotgun/Makhnovist shotgun is made not from a Mosinka, but strictly from a Mannlicher, because it is convenient to cock it with your left hand, the bolt does not need to be turned). There were unique people who shot from such a miracle at 200 meters or more - but doing this from the hip, of course, is difficult, you need proper trimming, and the recoil is considerable. After the war, it turned out that a rifle was a good thing to have around the house, but it was too bulky and difficult to hide. So Russian rationalization came into play. A bullet from a powerful cartridge, coming out of a cut barrel, began to tumble randomly and inflicted terrible wounds. All the gunpowder did not have time to burn, and the sawn-off shotgun produced a torch of fire a couple of meters long, demoralizing the enemy. Soviet cinema and propaganda posters firmly established the stereotype of a bearded man in an untucked shirt, vest, duck cap and trousers tucked into boots, sneaking around at night with the goal of killing the chairman of a collective farm or a young Komsomol member. After WWII, they sawed captured Fritz Mauser rifles. In late Soviet times, they began to press the owners of hunting double-barreled shotguns, and they were already put under the saw.

We remind everyone who wants to make a sawn-off shotgun: it is impractical and illegal.

and is caused primarily by hopelessness.

Examples[edit]

Folklore[edit]

Literature[edit]

• M. Sholokhov, “Virgin Soil Upturned.” The topic has been resolved.
• A. Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Terror" is perhaps the first example in literature. The victim (in fact, the killer himself, who was the same build and hair color as the victim)
  was killed with a shotgun shot to the face.
• Dresden Files - of course, Harry also has a sawn-off shotgun. And when he started loading magnesium shot into it...
• A. Gaidar's story "The Shotgun". The impracticality and stupidity of a rifle sawed-off shotgun for any serious tasks is clearly shown.
• Pavel Kucher, “It’s hard to live in Russia without a revolver” and the essay “A good word about the old sawn-off shotgun.” The practicality and intelligence of a rifle sawn-off shotgun, made in compliance with technology and in the direct hands of the user, is clearly shown, and the history of assault pistols in a similar form factor is told.
• "Red Devils" - sawn-off shotguns are mentioned repeatedly.

Cinema[edit]

• “The crew of a combat vehicle” - one of the characters says that his parents were killed by fists from sawn-off shotguns.
• “Brother” - right in the frame, in all the details, to “Black Birds” by Nautilus, Danila cuts off his hunting rifle when he is going to deal with his brother’s offenders.
• Guy Ritchie, describing the difficult life of London's criminals, loves to hand out sawed-off shotguns to everyone.
• "Terminator": Having obtained a gun, Kyle Reese first made a sawed-off shotgun out of it.
• In the second Terminator, the T-800 takes a sawn-off Winchester 1887 with a sawn-off barrel and butt from the bartender. With a sawed-off safety bracket (and an enlarged Henry bracket on the one from which the T-800 fires while sitting on a motorcycle, for reloading the gun by rotating the so-called “spin-cock”. 2 guns and 1 rubber model were involved in the filming)

Anime and manga[edit]

• "Hellsing" - Luke Valentine is armed with two sawed-off M1 Garand rifles.
• Code Geass: Bokuoku no Akito - twin automatic guns (according to Gast's scheme) look like two vertical sawed-off guns (on the scale of the robot itself).

Video games[edit]

• Blood duology - Caleb uses a variety of weapons to deal with dark cultists, zombies, gargoyles, other evil spirits and innocent people. It also uses the subject of the article. Moreover, if in the first part this weapon in its pure form embodies the principle in a sad but practical way, then in the second... Let's just say that unloading two barrels in each hand at once (and now Caleb shoots Macedonian style from compact barrels on a regular basis) is very even effective.
• XCOM, specifically, the Long War mod - you can make a sawn-off shotgun from a shotgun, which only hits the adjacent cell, but it hurts very much. At the same time, a sawn-off shotgun is produced instantly and for free, and it can be sold on the gray market, and there are an endless number of shotguns... And the continuation of the mod for the second part of the remake is not far behind, allowing rangers to use sawed-off shotguns, and in the future - laser, magnetic, gaussian guns that are lethal at close ranges and plasma sprayers and short-barreled guns (in the vanilla version of the mod there are only ballistic and Gaussian ones, thanks to our fellow countryman Iridar for laser, magnetic and plasma ones).
• GTA San Andreas - among the types of firearms that CJ learns to use, there is also a sawn-off shotgun. Moreover, having upgraded his skill, CJ will be able to shoot from two sawn-off shotguns at the same time.
• World War One Wiliant Hearts - Infantrymen are armed with sawn-off Lee-Enfield/Mauser and Lewis machine guns. In general, all firearms in the game are made with some strange modifications: the stock, barrel, and the spread of fragments are reduced, and the caliber is increased. Even the submachine guns are cut off!

Real life[edit]

The Remington TAC-13 is an example of a factory sawn-off shotgun that, due to legal gaps, is not subject to NFA requirements.

• The already mentioned lupara (“wolf cub”) was originally a weapon of Sicilian shepherds to protect pastures from gray fluffy lovers of biting the barrel.
• The Howdah is a double-barreled pistol used by Indian hunters in case of an attack by tigers, as well as by British colonial forces in case of an attack by the “Krauts” (who remembers the joke from Snatch when Turetsky asks Tommy why he should have such a big gun - to shoot back at the Nazis or something?).
• Winchester Liberator aka Colt Defender - four-barreled sawn-off shotgun Not really. The Colt Defender has 8 barrels.

IZH-43KN (factory sawn-off shotgun IZH-43, unlike its progenitor, is equipped with external triggers), OTs-62 (factory sawed-off shotgun MTs-255. Only for security forces)

• In the first “Brother”, Danila had a sawn-off shotgun of the Tula trigger TOZ-63 (or TOZ-BM), and the sawn-off shotgun of “Brother-2” is a sawn-off shotgun of the Izhevsk hammerless MP-43, so they made a mistake not only with the naming, but also with the design (It’s not like confusing the AK-74 with the AN-94).

Technical characteristics of Gletcher M1891

Possibilities for increasing power

Even before the pistol appeared in stores, many pages were written on thematic sites. And this is quite logical, since many future owners immediately had the idea of ​​​​installing a wooden stock, and the original one, “Mosinsky”. This is what a lot of people are doing successfully now. It turns out quite well, but there is one problem: you need to bore a groove for the cross pin, which does not fit. There is no need to throw away the pin, deciding to do without it (as many people think).

Next, about increasing the initial speed of a bullet. The simplest thing is to replace the mainspring (it is not pressed very effectively - tested). You can use, for example, a spring from a VAZ brake cylinder.

The barrel, which is 15 cm in length, is also lengthened by the owners of the sawn-off shotgun. As a rule, up to 35-45 cm. We must not forget that it is absolutely necessary to lengthen two trunks: internal and external (it is often made from an unnecessary ski pole). For the first, brass tubes are suitable, which are selected taking into account the appropriate cross-section. A thin barrel can be mounted in a false barrel using a plastic bushing.

Another option for increasing power is changing the valve. You can make a couple more holes in it with a diameter of 1.7-1.9 mm. Trying not to touch the edges of the valve so as not to break it. The washer is completely removed - it only takes up space in the chamber.

And in order to prevent the gas from escaping just like that, it is necessary to seal the gap located between the tube that comes out of the valve and the feeder.

Disassembling the pneumatic sawed-off Mosin Gletcher M1891

Partial disassembly of the sawn-off shotgun is performed as follows:

1. First, the magazine is taken out at the same time as the gas cylinder.
2. Then the shutter opens and the trigger is pressed. This is how the shutter is removed.
3. Next you need to disassemble it. Why do you need to remove the combat cylinder, the bar and the trigger from the firing pin (it is secured very tightly).
4. To remove the stock you need to knock out the pin located in front of the fore-end. It also holds the sight and front sight.
5. Then, if necessary, you can remove the inner barrel from the false barrel. This is required, for example, to upgrade a pistol.

The main pros and cons of the rifle

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High accuracy and accuracy

Realistic (both in appearance and during operation) metal bolt, easily removable as in a military weapon

Full-weight, one-piece steel 16-round magazine

The hexagon for clamping the gas cartridge is located in a special compartment of the magazine. So it cannot be lost or forgotten

The plastic composite stock spoils the look of the weapon

Low force required to move the shutter

Loading is not very convenient - you need to choose an angle so that the bullets enter the barrel without getting stuck. Balls are inserted one at a time

Small hexagon for pressing the cylinder

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