Gun Function .gifs

[Walt_Jabsco]

Does anyone know where I can find / have any .gifs demonstrating the function of a semi-auto rifle, preferably an AR-15 or AK-47 platform?

I'm giving a presentation next week on the function of semi-automatic firearms and while I can just explain and use still pictures, I'd really love to find some animated gifs. Something with a cutaway or illustration would be ideal.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[ryan3030]

This is all I could find after a quick search.

Don't know if this can help you since it's not a .gif, but it's exactly what you need minus that requirement:

Bushmaster -The World of Bushmaster - "The Anatomy of a Bushmaster"

 

[Walt_Jabsco]

Wow, that it does. Failing finding anything else, I'll just pull up that website.

 

[ryan3030]

Decent cutaway, but not animated:

 

[littletommy]

I don't know where you'd find them, but the Lock and Load show that used to air on history channel used a lot of animated clips to show the function of various semi and full auto firearms. A quick search of History.com turned up nothing.

 

[Walt_Jabsco]

That's pretty damn good Ryan, appreciated.

 

[J10]

Here are a few i found. None of a full AR-15 cutaway though.

 

[ryan3030]

Disregard this post.

 

[Walt_Jabsco]

J10, those are pretty damn excellent, basically exactly what I need.

So... Gun .gif general?

 

[J10]

Interactive flash animation of 1911 cycling.

http://www.m1911.org/loader.swf

Not sure what kind of gun this is but it represents the basic function of a semi-automatic pistol.

Lugar

Another 1911 Animation

 

[jedi]

Is it me or is it just not amazing how this design (like the rest) just works. You have several moving parts and each does it thing and BOOM our goes a bullet and the next one is ready for you at the same time.
WOW! Just WOW seeing it all in action.

-Jedi

 

[printcraft]

Is it me or is it just not amazing how this design (like the rest) just works. You have several moving parts and each does it thing and BOOM our goes a bullet and the next one is ready for you at the same time.
WOW! Just WOW seeing it all in action.

-Jedi

Machines are neat!

I used to run a linotype machine.
It cast lead slugs with letters on it for a letterpress.
The guy that invented it went crazy.
Either due to the lead or the complexity of the unit.

The large flat cases at the top held keyed letter molds like the below.

When you pushed letter on the keyboard a lever would release the mold blank,
it would travel to a tray via belts and be stacked in front of the operator.
The machine would then move the "line" of blanks to the pot to be injected
with hot lead and a slug molded.
After molding the keyed blanks would be lifted on an elevator arm and
be deposited back into their respective slots, the are keyed like a door
key and when the got to the right spot would drop off the transfer bar.

This is an extremely basic description of a very complicated and complex process, if you ever get a chance to see a linotype in action it is really a treat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine
Thread jack off -

 

[backfire]

All these are very interesting and I just can't get enough of watching them. Pretty cool!

Re: that linotype stuff..
When I was a kid about 10 or so, my stepfather used to cast his own bullets in his gun shop and I remember we used to go to this printing house that a friend of his worked at, to get their old, used-up linotype lead printing bars, so we could melt them down to make bullets. They were about 3' long and somewhat triangular in size, so they were heavy. As recall and understand it- the linotype lead was significantly harder and denser in composition than regular wheel weights were, so the cast bullets made from that held a better finished tolerance and shot more accurately compared to the softwer wheel weight bullet stuff...

Just some useless personal trivia...

Cool thread, thanks for sharing.

 

[printcraft]

All these are very interesting and I just can't get enough of watching them. Pretty cool!

Re: that linotype stuff..
When I was a kid about 10 or so, my stepfather used to cast his own bullets in his gun shop and I remember we used to go to this printing house that a friend of his worked at, to get their old, used-up linotype lead printing bars, so we could melt them down to make bullets. They were about 3' long and somewhat triangular in size, so they were heavy. As recall and understand it- the linotype lead was significantly harder and denser in composition than regular wheel weights were, so the cast bullets made from that held a better finished tolerance and shot more accurately compared to the softwer wheel weight bullet stuff...

Just some useless personal trivia...

Cool thread, thanks for sharing.

I still have about 20 of those I use for padding weights.

They weigh in around 23 lbs. each. They are cast with a loop at one
end and as the machine ran a float in the lead pot would keep
the lead at the proper level by lowering the lead bars into the pot
as the lead was used up. The gear box would hold 2 bars of lead at a time on chains.

 

[Clay]

I still have about 20 of those I use for padding weights.

They weigh in around 23 lbs. each. They are cast with a loop at one
end and as the machine ran a float in the lead pot would keep
the lead at the proper level by lowering the lead bars into the pot
as the lead was used up. The gear box would hold 2 bars of lead at a time on chains.

wait....... you used to work around molten lead? that explains a LOT!!!!!

 

[indyrun]

I'd just like to know where to order the infinite ammo supply used in the illustrations..........

 

[actaeon277]

I'd just like to know where to order the infinite ammo supply used in the illustrations..........

Hollywood.