Reload Times/Pump Action
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: Pump actions are fast, easy, and easy to make.
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| <html><iframe width="</html>320px<html>" height="240" align="right" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/</html>BYfqu-llMbU<html>" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></html> Patrick Flanigan throwing 6 clay pigeons in the air, and hitting them before they hit the ground. More at Pump Action |
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| <html><iframe width="</html>320px<html>" height="240" align="right" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/</html>xXkyEbrqNGw<html>" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></html> Miculek shows his speed-reloading techniques, using a shotgun. More at: Pump_Action |
There are "pump action" rifles, but they're most popular in shotguns. Shotguns do even more damage than rifles in close quarters and mass-shootings because each shot throws out many bullets (pellets). There's two topics with pump actions, how fast can you shoot, and how fast can you reload.
How fast can you shoot, is basically as fast as a semi-automatic, there's virtually no difference in rate of fire (other than each shot of a shotgun is equivalent to many trigger pulls on an assault rifle).
Reloading isn't worse than other fixed magazines. They make speed reloading tubes, so a shotgun can hold 10 regular rounds, or 20 short rounds (not as powerful, but easily enough to kill people). The same reloading technique works semi-automatic or pump, if it's a tube magazine (most shotguns). But many tactical shotguns have removable magazines, you can switch between two tubes (so they carry twice as much). But a removable or fixed magazine does not matter: you push load 20 fresh rounds into a gun in a fraction of a second.
The much larger bullets of a shotgun make them easier to reload because it's a large muscle motion instead of a smaller one. The only difference is the shape of the bullet grouping goes from stacked on top of each other to lined up end-to-end. So you carry a bunch of tubes around, instead of magazines -- and each shot has a higher chance of lethality as you're basically firing 10-12 bullets the size of an assault rifle bullet, with each shot.
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🔗 External Links
- Patrick Flanigan: https://youtu.be/CVoehY1ssyM
- Jerry Miculek: https://youtu.be/xXkyEbrqNGw
- Deuce Stevens: shooting a variety of gun types in a short run: single shot pumping a gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PH0XATBwAg