The Model 1922 Bang rifle is a US semi-automatic rifle designed by the Danish arms designer Søren Hansen Bang. It was a modification of the earlier Models of 1909 and Model 1911 Bang rifles, both chambered in the
.30-06 Springfield
The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty- aught-six" ), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester, was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use ...
round.
Overview
It was
gas operated, using a sliding muzzle cup system which was blown forward by the combustion gases while the bullet emerged from the barrel. During field trials in 1919 and 1927, the rifle was demonstrated by the designer.
Because of its mechanical complexity and its susceptibility to gas fouling of the sliding muzzle cup, it was unsuccessful in US government testing.
The Bang blow-forward gas system, originally developed in 1903, inspired several other weapon developments: It was used in the unsuccessful French
Puteaux APX machine gun of 1904, in its direct successor the controversial
St. Étienne Mle 1907
The French St. Étienne Mle 1907 (french: Mitrailleuse Mle 1907 T) was a gas operated air-cooled machine gun in 8mm Lebel which was widely used in the early years of the First World War. The "St.Etienne Mle 1907" was not derived from the Hotchkiss ...
machine-gun, and in the
Gewehr 41
The Gewehr 41 (German for: rifle 41), commonly known as the G41(W) or G41(M), denoting the manufacturer (Walther or Mauser), are two distinct and different battle rifles manufactured and used by Nazi Germany during World War II. They were large ...
, where it suffered the same shortcomings.
Patents
* , October 13, 1908, Device for Automatic Firing of Self-Loading Arms, Inventor Søren H. Bang of Copenhagen, Denmark
* , April 21, 1925, Self-Loading Firearm, Inventor Søren H. Bang of Copenhagen, Denmark
References
External links
{{Commons category, Bang rifle
material #2 from Forgotten Weapons* ''Hatcher's Notebook'' by Julian S. Hatcher, 1952, The Stackpole Company.
.30-06 Springfield semi-automatic rifles
Trial and research firearms of the United States