Alright gang, this is a very basic single shot shotgun. Which doesn't make any sense for me to have, because I'm supposed to be gearing up for a repeating shotgun series. But, attached to it... is perhaps the strangest magazine system I've ever seen. This is the Alof’s, which could be bolted on to just about any break-action, single-shot shotgun, and turn it into a magazine shotgun. So, let's see how that might work, if this even works at all. I'm going to manually chamber my first round. And then I'm going to go ahead and feed around into the primary magazine, which has been a feed into almost like a carrier or auxiliary magazine. And then from there you can fill up the primary magazine. Now, I only have so many snap caps. So we're gonna stop it at four. But that'll be enough for our demonstration today. Alright, the gun is now ready. So, you would be able to close this up. A little awkward. And then you would cock the hammer and fire this like normal. Once you fired it, you would flip your lever to break open your shotgun, or however your shotgun is configured to open. And when you do, this counts on having an automatic ejector. Because what's gonna happen is this guy is going to stay static. The ejecting case is going to trip this lever and release this to come over. And it's lower-powered spring is going to feed into the chamber. Now, this one's pretty fresh to me, and pretty old and worn. Let's see if it can pull this stunt off. So, I'm going to open the action carefully. So that I don't just immediately fall off the sear. And then I'm going to pop it. And then, you just break it back shut. And the system resets. So, from there, I would cock the hammer and fire. After I fired, I would eject the spent case. And we're back in business. And then one more time you would fire it. Eject the spent case. And now the system should be empty when I eject this spent case
This is amazing, I wish it was still made. I'd love to have one for my single shot 20 gauge.
Well that’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
Imagine this in hunt:showdown.
you could make a mirrored copy of it and than attach both of these on a double barrel shotgun :oooo
What an amazing mechanism! I love Othias' laugh at the end. That's how I felt too after seeing it actually worked.
Oh I want one of these. Someone make a reproduction. Would go great on my Model 37
Man that's awesome. Pretty steampunk.
Edit also people in more restrictive countries need to get on 3D printing these bad boys. Turn any single shot into a manual action repeater.
So you're telling me the Alofs system isn't a big truck?
Oh Shit, it actually works!