…at the trigger of a very cool (because Browning) but altogether rather odd old shotgun.
Can’t say I noticed at the time, but in slow-mo it’s clear the gun doesn’t start to recoil until the barrel is all the way to the end of its travel. I wonder if that would have an effect on accuracy, since the shot column would have left the barrel by the time the buttstock starts beating on your shoulder?
Will Blog for ISP Time, Glaucoma Meds, or Cheap Booze.
Free! (and worth every penny)
Scary Manifesto that keeps getting pushed down on the sidebar by filthy capitalism!
They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
Our Founder
Our Late Editor
Little Bear 2009-2018
Our Late Cattle Wrangler
Laddie the Amazing Torso Boy 2011-2020
Blogroll
- 357 Magnum
- 5 Acres and a Dream
- 90 Miles From Tyranny
- A Day in the Life of a Talk Radio Blogger
- Adaptive Curmudgeon
- Armed & Non-Violent
- Bayou Renaissance Man
- Bill St. Clair
- Borepatch
- Carl Bussjaeger
- Claire Wolfe
- Commander Zero
- Dio's Workshop
- Eaton Rapids Joe
- Forgotten Weapons
- Freeholder
- Home on the Range
- Instapundit
- Irons in the Fire
- James Zachary
- Kent McManigal
- Nails and Sawdust
- Never Yet Melted
- Resistance Library
- Say Uncle
- The Price of Liberty
- The Smallest Minority
- The View from North Central Idaho
- The Vulgar Curmudgeon
- The War on Guns
- The Zelman Partisans
- True Blue Sam
- View from the Porch
- Weer'd World
- Wendy McElroy
- You will shoot your eye out
- Zendo Deb
Previous OPSEC Violations
My dad owns a half dozen of those model 11s, he really loves em. Same gun as the browning auto 5, but price a lot more reasonably.
No idea on the affect on accuracy, but I always like it as a fun toy.
I have the rifle version, the model 8 (mines in 30 rem http://abnormal-pov.blogspot.com/2011/09/out-of-gun-safe-its-sorta-like-30-30.html )
In this case the barrel slides back inside a shroud. the shroud houses the sites, so they dont move on recoil, but the barrel itself does.
Whole thing is take down too, for easy storage/transport. First semi auto sporting rifle sold to the general public.
I have a Remington model 11, it was originally my dads gun, I have owned it for almost 40 years. Great old gun. It shoots better than I do…
The shot column is always clear of the barrel way before you feel any recoil, regardless of the gun, regardless of the action.
The shot is so much lighter than the shotgun, that the shot’s reaction to the whole “equal and opposite” is quite a bit more speedy.
It’s actually quite shocking to watch, say, an auto handgun on slow-mo, and how much time elapses between the bullet leaving the barrel, and any sign of movement in the action.
I happen to have both the Model 11 in 16ga (was my grandfather’s) and a Model 8 in .35 Remington (was my great grandfather’s )…. The 11 is a sweet shooter, the 8 not so much due to extreme drop in the in the stock, but no deer took more than 2 steps after being hit through the chest.