How to properly make a sawn-off shotgun from a hunting rifle. Sawed-off - compact shotgun
IN Over the past few years, interest among modern Russian citizens in the history of their own Motherland has been growing quite rapidly.
A significant role in this is played by the increased number of high-quality feature-length films and TV series both about the Great Patriotic War and about the First World War and the Civil War. These works slightly pushed aside the segment that had become unpopular, telling about the “dashing 90s”. In turn, and in their time, these films supplanted Soviet cinema, which, not without an ideological background, told the story of the struggle of the Soviet people against the White Guards in the Civil War and against the Nazis in the Great Patriotic War.
Views on certain historical events may be different, but regardless of them, screenwriters and directors have strived and strive to recreate the most authentic picture using the props of those years. This is especially true for weapons.
It is clear that there are simply no German tanks from the war anymore, so the Soviet T-72s are “made up” to look like them.
In the minds of the filmmakers, the vast majority of the German invaders were armed with MP-40 submachine guns.
Although in fact the main weapon was a 98k carbine. The revolutionary sailors are all wearing machine gun belts and always with a Mauser in a wooden butt holster. Although in fact, they wore ribbons and a pistol for a few photographs.
Cinema has always had an ambiguous attitude towards the sawn-off shotgun. Whether it was a sawn-off shotgun or a shotgun, it always ended up in the hands of the negative hero.
In Soviet times, a sawn-off shotgun was definitely a weapon for committing crimes, and exclusively against the Soviet government and its representatives.
The shotgun first played a “positive image” in the famous film “Brother” directed by S. Balabanov. In the film, shot in 1997, the main character played by S. Bodrov Jr. not only made a sawn-off shotgun from a smooth-bore shotgun with horizontal barrels, but also used it against evil. This directorial move, in our opinion, was also not chosen by chance. In many ways, the film “Brother” overturns the idea of a very difficult period in the history of modern Russia and changes a number of stereotypes. Including the stereotype of a sawed-off shotgun only as a weapon of kulaks and bandits.
In accordance with the Federal Law “On Weapons”, the minimum length of civilian long-barreled weapons must be 800 mm. At the same time, forensic requirements establish another limitation: the length of the barrel with receiver should not be less than 500 mm, the length of the barrel should not be less than 300 mm. Therefore, in its “pure form,” a sawn-off shotgun of a double-barreled shotgun or repeating rifle is illegal in Russia.
However, during the heyday of “traumatic” self-defense weapons, the sawn-off shotgun was legalized in the form of a gas pistol with the ability to fire a Howdah rubber bullet. In terms of its characteristics, the sawn-off shotgun was so-so, but not in terms of its aura...
In those years, street crime did not take a gun in the hands of a civilian seriously. There were a lot of gas, traumatic and, especially, pneumatic pistols on hand, which were worn for self-defense. Among them were “traumatic weapons” that were quite powerful in terms of power, but most often their owners could not use them, since they were counting solely on the psychological effect of demonstrating the weapon. Then the script usually ended.
Few people wore a “traumatic” sawed-off shotgun. Firstly, it is heavier and not convenient for concealed carry, and secondly, pistols were in fashion. The unexpected effect of displaying a sawn-off shotgun instead of a pistol during an attack on the street helped avoid many conflicts without shooting. The mere sight of a sawed-off shotgun, “criminalized” to no end by Soviet literature and cinema, coupled with the effect of the film “Brother,” where the main character has nothing to lose except the life for which he stands, sobered up many hotheads of street crime.
In 2016, sawn-off shotguns became legal again. Moreover, the sawn-off shotgun of a real MP-43 (IZH-43) smoothbore shotgun. It is available as a decommissioned weapon chambered for the 10x31TK light-sound cartridge.
The sawn-off shotgun is called "Brother-2". Many have already noted that the sawn-off shotgun was in the first film “Brother”, but did not appear at all in the second. But initially the meaning was different, BROAT-2, because there are two barrels with a sawn-off shotgun.
The "Brother-2" sawn-off shotgun retained all the features of the IZH-43 gun, with the exception of the ability to fire projectile equipment (shot, buckshot or bullet).
That is, when fired, a cold IZH-43 gun produces only a sound, accompanied by a decent flash of flame. The effect of a shot from a sawn-off shotgun, as well as its very appearance, leaves few people indifferent. And today everyone can join both a piece of the history of their homeland and feel like they are in the place of the hero S. Bodrov Jr. Again, the charisma and stunning effect produced by a sawed-off shotgun are worth a lot even in our time, so saturated with weapon innovations.
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At all times, people tried to reduce weapons for concealed carry, while retaining their combat qualities, so they appeared: stilettos in sleeves, swords in canes, pocket pistols and sawn-off shotguns.
Sawed-off hunting double-barreled shotgun
What is it? sawn-off shotgun? This is any atypical firearm created by shortening the barrel(s) and stock. Mostly, a hunting rifle or rifle is used as the basis for a sawn-off shotgun. It is difficult to say which of the folk craftsmen first came up with such a weapon, but most of all, all kinds of sawn-off shotguns were used in three countries: the USA, Italy and Russia (later the USSR). The main advantages of a sawn-off hunting rifle are its small size, which allows you to carry it secretly on your person, and its terrible destructive power at close distances (up to 20 meters). The disadvantages are the inability to make a targeted and effective shot at longer distances, and low accuracy. All this is caused by the shortening of the barrel, because sighting devices are also removed along with it, handicraft processing of the muzzle and the absence of a butt.
One of the variants of the American sawn-off shotgun
In the United States sawn-off shotgun first appears in the first half of the 19th century, and during the era of the conquest of the Wild West it becomes a very common weapon among all levels of society. Not many settlers could afford expensive Colt or Smith & Wesson revolvers, but any shopkeeper or bartender could make a deadly melee weapon from a cheap hunting rifle and keep it always at hand. And ammunition for a hunting rifle cost an order of magnitude less than for a revolver. Again, in order to achieve accuracy in shooting offhand from a revolver, you need to train a lot and constantly, but with a sawed-off shotgun, just shoot in the direction of the target and a barrage of buckshot will cover one, or even two opponents. And if you remember the level of medicine at that time, even an initially not very serious injury could lead to serious consequences.
Various American sawn-off shotguns
During the First World War (1914-1918), American infantrymen actively used shotguns and all kinds of sawn-off shotguns for close combat in trenches and trenches. The same thing is repeated in all subsequent wars in which the United States took part: from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq. The spread of sawn-off shotguns in the army was facilitated by the fact that the American Army officially has various shotguns (pump-action shotguns) in service, and many soldiers sawed off their butts, shortened the barrel and carried a “trusty friend” as an additional weapon for close combat. Many also brought guns from home with them, or bought them on the spot with their own money, or got them in any other way. The command turned a blind eye to this, and did not particularly interfere with carrying additional weapons, especially if it helps the soldier stay alive in battle. In the modern American army and police there are a lot of short-barreled and stockless factory-made shotguns that are officially in service. There is even a system that allows you to attach a sawn-off shotgun to the main weapon and use it as an “under-barrel” shotgun.
Italian Lupara
In Italy sawn-off shotguns also appeared in the 19th century, initially shepherds armed themselves with them to protect the herd and themselves from wolves and thieves. This is where the Italian cut-off shotgun got its name - "Lupara"(lupo means wolf in Italian). The classic Lupara is considered to be a sawn-off shotgun of a 12 or 16 gauge horizontal hunting rifle. Sometimes only the barrel was cut off, and the butt was left; the length of the barrel was usually 30-40 cm. Subsequently, sawn-off shotguns were adopted by the Italian mafiosi from Cosa Nostra. At short distances, this weapon does not leave wounded, and even body armor is not reliable protection. The kinetic energy of a shot from such a gun with buckshot or a bullet is so powerful that even if it does not penetrate body armor, it causes a strong concussive blow and internal damage.
Kulak sawn-off shotgun
In Russia, sawn-off shotguns were not particularly popular until the revolution of 1917 and the end of the First World War in 1918. After the revolution, millions of soldiers poured home from the fronts, and, as was natural for such troubled times, they took their weapons with them. The main weapon of the tsarist army was the Mosin rifle. It also becomes the basis for most sawn-off shotguns in Russia. The soldiers, in most cases the peasants, understood that a bulky rifle was difficult to carry unnoticed, but that it was a useful thing in the household, and here Russian ingenuity came to the rescue - the barrel and butt were sawed off. With such a makeshift modification, it is clear that the ballistic performance dropped significantly, and it was almost impossible to hit the target from a distance of more than 50 meters. On the other hand, the resulting weapon was easy to hide in a bosom or in a cart under hay or matting, and to always have at hand at home. Also, a bullet from a powerful rifle cartridge, coming out of a cut-off, short barrel, began to tumble chaotically, and when it hit a person, it caused terrible wounds. When firing in a short barrel, all the gunpowder did not have time to burn out, and the flame rushed forward from the barrel several meters, and the sound was much louder, all this in general had a very demoralizing effect on the enemy. During the civil war, the sawn-off shotgun of the Mosin rifle became the main weapon of peasant resistance - that’s what I’m starting to call "kulak sawed-off shotgun". And Soviet cinema and propaganda posters firmly established the stereotype of a bearded man in a graduation shirt, a vest, a duck cap and trousers tucked into his boots, sneaking around at night with the goal of killing the chairman of a collective farm or a young Komsomol member from this very “kulak sawed-off shotgun.” Later, during the NEP and until the 80s, a sawn-off rifle became a weapon of criminals and often appeared in criminal reports. During the Second World War (1939-1945), the sawn-off shotgun was also in service with various partisan formations.
Sawed-off shotguns appeared in the USSR quite late, due to the fact that until the end of the 40s smooth-bore guns were not available for free sale. But after the end of the Great Patriotic War, no documents were required to purchase a hunting rifle. Smoothbore guns were sold in stores as household equipment. Registration of hunting weapons was introduced only in 1976; before that, over 1.5 million guns were produced and purchased. It was not bandits who started making sawn-off shotguns out of them, but ordinary people, driven to despair by the lack of any self-defense weapons suitable for concealed carry. But gradually the hunting sawn-off shotgun becomes a bandit weapon.
Sawed-off shotgun from the computer game "Fallout 2"
Sawed-off shotgun also firmly entrenched in both domestic and Western cinema. In the cult Russian film "Brother" there is an episode of making a sawn-off shotgun. In many Western action films, robbers and goodies are armed with a sawn-off shotgun. In the “post-nuclear world” of all parts of the film “MAD MAX”, the main character Max Rockatansky is armed with a sawn-off shotgun, for him it is his main weapon. The sawn-off shotgun is also featured in various computer games; in Fallout 2, the sawn-off shotgun is described as follows: “Someone took the time to cut the last few inches off the barrel and shorten the butt of this Winchester Widowmaker shotgun. Currently, the large dispersion of this one-handed short-barreled weapon makes it ideal for destroying the enemy at close ranges” - that says it all.
These are more or less “familiar” forms of sawn-off shotguns. Horizontal or single-barreled, hammer-fired, less often - a sawn-off rifled bolt. Convenient in close combat, instead of a pistol, although standard gunpowder in hunting cartridges is not designed for such a short barrel, does not have time to burn out and, accordingly, the shot is weaker than from a full-fledged gun. It makes sense (if you have already gotten involved in an illegal smooth short-barreled gun :)) to pour in less gunpowder or use faster-burning gunpowder (the latter, with some inability and shooting from the hip, risks a lifetime Darwin Award).
Judging by news reports, sawn-off shotguns are still popular, more popular than illegal short-barreled rifles. Moreover, illegal weapons thought is not constrained by the patterns of the past - double-barreled shotguns with vertical barrels and hidden triggers are actively being sawed.
This makes some sense - the weapon turns out to be flatter, faster-firing than a hammer-fired one, and, moreover, safe, if there is a safety lock.
This, by the way, is a “working” sawed-off shotgun of a serial killer. For 7 years and 52 corpses, there were no accidental shots, as I understand it. Apparently, he fired little, and was used more for intimidation. Taken from here: http://www.segodnya.ua/news/10048466.html Those interested in criminal weapons will be interested.
In general, in my mind, it is the criminal sawed-off double-barreled shotgun that should be the living nightmare of a hoplophobe. Compact, almost 100% lethal in a short shot, fast enough to carry out a mass execution in a pen for two-legged game in places where the carrying of civilian weapons is prohibited. Naturally, by definition, there are no documents or checks of the sanity of the owner of a criminal sawn-off shotgun and there cannot be. The legal civil Constitutional Court looks very pale against this background.
Sawed-off shotguns are, of course, prohibited in our country (and in other countries it is questionable), but there is a need for them, and such that manufacturers of civilian weapons are forced to experiment in this direction. Considering the traditional Russian insensitivity of the manufacturer to the desires of the consumer, one can estimate the scale of the “desire”!
Izh-43-KN export, also known as Remington spr220, 510 mm barrels.
Moreover, please note that this is not only a “hunting smoothbore”, but also a traumatic weapon intended specifically for self-defense:
And not only from the Russian manufacturer:
And this is a verse dedicated to perhaps the most famous model “a la kulak sawed-off shotgun” - Toz-106 :)
Tell me, comrade, what the hell
Did you buy Tozik one hundred and six?
- Oh, there is a considerable reason in this, my friend:
You left Saiga at home in the off-season,
And I'm in an alley and in a dark forest
I carry this scrap in my bosom.
The hunt has been closed this year -
I don’t care about the flu, I’ll go get the ducks.
“Thank you,” the poacher said to the Tula people,
An engineer found an object for finishing,
The tourist and the fisherman are an argument for the gopya,
Anyone can use my machine!
From youth to white gray hair
We all need a kulak sawed-off shotgun!
Hey, oh my black horse!
Hey, it's a steel sawn-off shotgun!
Hey, thick fog!
Hey, oh yes, Father Ataman, yes Father Ataman!
Sawed-off shotgun- a legendary weapon of the Civil War on a par with the Mauser and the Mosin rifle. And, also, the favorite weapon of kulaks and bandits of all stripes!
So, what is a sawn-off shotgun? This is any firearm created by shortening the barrel(s) and stock. Mostly, a hunting rifle or rifle is used as the basis for a sawn-off shotgun. The main advantages of a sawn-off shotgun are its small size, which allows you to carry it covertly, and its terrible destructive power at close ranges (up to 20 meters). The effectiveness of sawn-off shotguns at short distances can exceed the lethality of automatic weapons. The disadvantages are the inability to make a targeted and effective shot at longer distances and low accuracy. This is caused by the shortening of the barrel, because sights are also removed along with it, handicraft processing of the muzzle and the absence of a butt. It is difficult to say which of the folk craftsmen first came up with such a weapon, but, most of all, all kinds of sawn-off shotguns were used in three countries: the USA, Italy and Russia (later the USSR).
In the United States, the sawn-off shotgun first appeared in the first half of the 19th century, and during the era of the conquest of the Wild West it became a very common weapon among all levels of society. Not many settlers could afford expensive Colt or Smith & Wesson revolvers, but any shopkeeper could make a deadly melee weapon from a cheap hunting rifle and keep it always at hand. And ammunition for a hunting rifle cost an order of magnitude less than for a revolver. Again, to achieve accuracy in shooting offhand from a revolver, you need to train a lot and constantly, but with a sawn-off shotgun you can simply shoot towards the target and a flurry of buckshot will cover one, or even two opponents. And if you remember the level of medicine at that time, even an initially not very serious injury could lead to serious consequences.
During World War I, American infantrymen actively used shotguns and all kinds of sawed-off sawed-off shotguns for close combat in trenches and trenches. The same thing was repeated in all subsequent wars in which the United States took part: from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq.
The spread of sawn-off shotguns was facilitated by the fact that the American Army officially has various shotguns (pump-action shotguns) in service, and many soldiers sawed off their butts, shortened the barrel and carried them as an additional weapon for close combat. Also, many brought guns from home with them or bought them on the spot with their own money, or got them in any other way. The command turned a blind eye to this, and did not particularly interfere with carrying additional weapons, especially if it helps the soldier stay alive in battle.
In the modern American army and police there are a lot of short-barreled and stockless factory-made shotguns that are officially in service. There is even a system that allows you to attach a sawn-off shotgun to the main weapon and use it as an “under-barrel” shotgun.
In Italy, sawn-off shotguns also appeared in the 19th century, and, initially, shepherds armed themselves with them to protect their flocks and themselves from wolves and thieves. This is where the Italian sawn-off shotgun got its name - “Lupara” (lupo in Italian means wolf). A classic Lupara is considered to be a sawn-off shotgun of a 12- or 16-gauge horizontal hunting rifle. Sometimes, only the barrel was cut off, and the butt was left, and the length of the barrel was usually 30-40 cm.
Subsequently, sawed-off lupars were adopted by the Italian mafiosi from Cosa Nostra. At short distances, this weapon does not leave wounded, and even body armor is not reliable protection against it. The kinetic energy of a shot from such a gun with buckshot or a bullet is so powerful that, even if it does not penetrate the body armor, it causes a strong concussive blow and internal damage.
In Russia, sawn-off shotguns were not particularly popular until the revolution of 1917 and the end of the First World War in 1918. After the revolution, millions of soldiers poured home from the fronts, and, as was natural for such troubled times, they took their weapons with them. The main weapon of the tsarist army was the Mosin rifle. It also becomes the basis for most sawn-off shotguns in Russia. The soldiers - in most cases peasants - understood that a bulky rifle was difficult to carry unnoticed, but that it was a useful thing on the farm. And here Russian ingenuity comes to the rescue - the barrel and butt are sawed off.
With such a makeshift modification, of course, the ballistic performance dropped significantly, and it was almost impossible to hit the target from a distance of more than 50 meters. On the other hand, the resulting weapon was easy to hide in a bosom or in a cart under hay or matting, and to always have at hand at home.
Also, a bullet from a powerful rifle cartridge, coming out of a cut-off, short barrel, began to tumble chaotically, and, when it hit a person, inflicted terrible wounds. And when fired, all the gunpowder in the short barrel did not have time to burn out, and the flame from the barrel rushed forward several meters, and the sound was much louder. All this, in general, had a very demoralizing effect on the enemy.
During the Civil War, the sawn-off shotgun of the Mosin rifle became the main weapon of the peasant resistance - it is this that I began to call the “kulak sawn-off shotgun.” And Soviet cinema and propaganda posters firmly established the stereotype of a bearded man in a graduation shirt, vest, cap and trousers tucked into boots, sneaking around at night with the aim of killing the chairman of a collective farm or a young Komsomol member from this very “kulak sawed-off shotgun.”
Later, during the NEP and until the 80s of the last century, a sawn-off rifle became a weapon of criminals and often appeared in criminal reports. During the Second World War (1939-1945), the sawn-off shotgun was also in service with various partisan formations.
Sawed-off shotguns appeared in the USSR quite late due to the fact that until the end of the 40s there were no smooth-bore guns on the free market. But, after the end of the Great Patriotic War, no documents were required at all to purchase a hunting rifle. Smoothbore guns were sold in stores as household equipment. Registration of hunting weapons was introduced only in 1976. Before this, over 1.5 million guns were produced and purchased. And it was not bandits who began making sawn-off shotguns out of them, but ordinary people, driven to despair by the lack of any self-defense weapons suitable for concealed carry. But, gradually, a hunting sawed-off shotgun becomes a bandit weapon.
Judging by news reports, sawn-off shotguns are still popular, much more popular than illegal short-barreled rifles. Moreover, illegal weapons thought is not constrained by the patterns of the past - double-barreled shotguns with vertical barrels and hidden triggers are actively being sawed.
The army, the police, and hunters also use sawn-off shotguns.
The sawn-off shotgun is also firmly entrenched in cinema (both domestic and foreign).
Here is Danila Bagrov in the cult Russian film “Brother”
Papanov in the film “Cold Summer of ’53”
Banderas famously plays pranks with a sawed-off shotgun
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