Cobray Terminator 12ga Shotgun

[Music] hey guys thanks for tuning in to another video on Forgotten weapons comm I mean I'm here to rock island auction house taking a look at the guns and their upcoming February 2015 regional auction you know the thing about an auction house is that you take whatever consigners give you and often these guys get entire collections from people living or deceased those collections usually have some really cool fantastic guns the sort of stuff that I personally would really like to own one of these days but when you get the good stuff you often get some junk too and while we were looking through the catalog and the stacks are rifles we found what is possibly the worst shotgun ever made a Cobre Terminator and you know what these are just kind of unusual and interesting enough that I decided it'd be worth doing a video on so the Cobra 12-gauge Terminator so copra is known for making pretty much a whole line of questionably legal and thoroughly impractical firearms they made semi-auto Mac pistols that are pretty much worthless they made the street sweeper whose name was so egregious that it got ready at got declared a destructive device and put on the NFA registry it made the Ladies Home Companion which is possibly the most ludicrous pistol ever designed and they made this Terminator 12-gauge which I guess was an attempted at a gun as egregious as the street sweeper which didn't quite make it approximately 1500 of these were made fourteen hundred and fifty and change over the course of about four years from 1987 to 1990 there is a rumor out there a lot of people will tell you that these manufacturers stopped because the ATF decided it was easily convertible into a machine gun because it was open bolt as far as I can tell that is not the truth production on these stops simply because they didn't sell dealer cost on one of these things was about 90 bucks when they were new and even at that price they just didn't move and for good reason we have a collapsing wire frame stock like so pretty simple thoroughly uncomfortable the butt plates not very good it's a little too wide in the wrong places the stocks really not comfortable at all you'll notice there's a front sight they didn't even bother with a rear sight and it's a single-shot 12-gauge so when I bring the camera around I think it's gonna be better to show you how this works up close rather than from way out there where you are now in machine gun parlance an open bolt gun is one where the vault is when the guns ready to fire locked in an open position when you pull the trigger the bolt actually has to travel forward pick up a cartridge chamber it and then fire that's that's what an open bolt gun technically is compared to a closed bolt which is virtually everything that we're normally used to dealing with where the cartridge is chambered and the bolt closed and locked when the guns ready to fire now this Cobre is technically more of an open bolt than anything else although it's open bolt in a mechanism that's different from most so as you can see this whole chamber area is open and the gun is right now ready to fire in order to use it what I would do is drop a single shotgun shell into the chamber you can see then we have a bolt handle up here I'm gonna hold this so it doesn't make a big noise and slam I then pull the trigger and what happens is a big spring around the barrel pushes it backwards you hear that click that is this bar which is spring-loaded locking against the front of the receiver here and there's a fixed firing pin on this breech block so what happens is the bolt drops locks and immediately fires the shell there's some rumor out there that these will automatically eject that's not the case they simply drop the barrel and fire the one round in order to eject the round what I do is grab my thumb around the charging handle here and I depress this spring-loaded lock a little bit tricky there we go we push this down which releases it and then push the barrel back forward see the barrel is now sticking out the front of the receiver it's open here as I push this out we have an extractor right there that hooks the shell pops it out dump out the empty case you can then load a new case and do the whole thing again the safety on this gun is basically like that of an open bolt submachine gun in order to render it safe what I do is push the whole handle forward and up into this locking notch in the receiver so now pulling the trigger does nothing because the bolts locked in its forward position by that we can take this apart and at least to a minor degree by removing breech plug I will say this gun is very sturdy the materials here are all of our they're all quite thick the thing is heavier than you might expect and despite the method of construction I think they're actually totally safe well it's a crude mechanism for a shotgun this isn't actually gonna come apart on you it's not gonna feel good to shoot the recoil is gonna be yeah basically like a single shot shotgun plus the force of the barrel whacking into your shoulder there we go so right there you can see the fixed firing pin that doesn't go anywhere it doesn't it's not spring-loaded it's just an insert so when a cartridge is pushed back on to that firing pin it detonates and fires there's the back of the receiver now one other thing we can show you yes now when I pull this all the way back because the breech plug is out the barrel comes back farther than it normally would and this comes out we have two little springs here so this is our bolt locking lever I suppose you could say this shelf right here at this end locks against the edge of the receiver and that's what prevents the barrel from opening when the cartridge is firing extremely simple little tricky to get back into place though there's nothing that actually holds these two little springs in position nothing locks them into that lever now lock the barrel forward and I can reinsert you'll notice there's a sling swivel on the breech block right there that's the only sling swivel on the gun they gave you one sling swivel and one sight one less mechanical feature we'll take a quick look at here is the stock latch they're a pair of buttons one on either side we push those in that unlocks the stock to extend and then it locks in this position actually pretty similar to an m3 grease gun submachine gun stock there's your butt plate simple stamped sheet metal there you go one Cobra Terminator so as it turns out in this current rock island auction there are actually three of these guns available for sale I have a link to the lot that this one is in below that you can take a look at if you'd like to add this to your own collection hopefully for reference only and not for actual use go ahead and check out the catalog below honestly they're kind of interesting you know they're they're so mechanically different from everything else out there that they're kind of cool although I'd be embarrassed to probably be seen with one in public anyway I hope you guys enjoyed the video get to learn something cool here dispel some of the myths about this gun and thanks for watching [Music]

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Views: 1,219,879

Rating: 4.903492 out of 5

Keywords: Cobray Company (Defunct Organization), Cobray Terminator, Gauge, Shotgun, 12ga, open bolt

Id: WnpOis10NyQ

Length: 9min 12sec (552 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 03 2015

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