It's a sort of break action bullpup, striker fired; OAL length is ~27 1/2", with a barrel length of 26". It's a Pfeifer SR2. Found via reddit/guns:
http://imgur.com/a/AGHE0
I guess you can't call it a bolt action, since it doesn't have a bolt. The "backwards trigger" actually cocks the striker; the trigger is a button for the striker release. The owner says it has a clean 0.5 kg (1.1 lb) break; the firing pin is rocker actuated, and does not suffer the usual bullpup trigger issues. The gun is a .300 winmag, the owner says he put five rounds of factory ammo into a 2 cm group at 100 m.
Here's the reddit comment thread:
http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/3 ... ing_rifle/
And here's Pfeifer Waffen's website, English version:
http://www.pfeifer-waffen.at/en/home.html
Looks like the SR2's base price is 2,700 Euros.
The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
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Re: The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
That's certainly... different.
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They have a sweet k98 in 7.5 Swiss. Someone remind me how painful/expensive it would be to import that.
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Re: The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
If you're looking at the used one they're selling for EUR 560, it's a perfectly normal K98 sporter - you could probably buy a similar one stateside and have Lothar Walther short-chamber a 7.5x55 barrel for it for less than you'd spend on importing Pfeiffer's one.slowpoke wrote:They have a sweet k98 in 7.5 Swiss. Someone remind me how painful/expensive it would be to import that.
On the other hand, if you are really serious about importing that particular one (i.e. money-up-front serious), contact me privately and we'll discuss it...
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Re: The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
I'm having trouble visualizing a 26" barrel and only a 27.5" OAL.
Manually load a single round through the back of the butt-stock?
And, a 2 round magazine?
Manually load a single round through the back of the butt-stock?
And, a 2 round magazine?
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Re: The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
This looks like a solution in search of a problem.
Bullpups have their place, but the only one I like is the Steyr AUG. It is the only one with a slightly less sucky trigger than every other bullpup, and they all have sucky triggers, just some slightly less sucky than others. The Tavor trigger really sucks; it reminds me of the VP70 trigger.
Kel-Tec managed to design a reasonably good trigger for their .308 bullpup rifle, but it is a very complicated rube-goldberg-esque mechanism to get it to work over that travel distance. I suspect this trigger is of a similar design.
Problems I see with this rifle:
1. the trigger has to be complicated to work in a bullpup design - complicated and reliable are difficult to mix.
2. I'm OK with a 5.56 NATO round under my cheek with the extensive failure testing done by Steyr for the Austrian military, and almost 40 year history of the rifle. I'm not OK with a .300 Win Mag round under my cheek when I pull the trigger, especially with a new, untested design. I'm guessing Mr. Pfeifer didn't intentionally try to blow up his gun with a double charged .300 WM round, like Steyr did (many times).
3. This would be yet another rifle I have to check local gun regs before I put in the truck. I know it won't meet minimum length rules in the PRK.
Bullpups have their place, but the only one I like is the Steyr AUG. It is the only one with a slightly less sucky trigger than every other bullpup, and they all have sucky triggers, just some slightly less sucky than others. The Tavor trigger really sucks; it reminds me of the VP70 trigger.
Kel-Tec managed to design a reasonably good trigger for their .308 bullpup rifle, but it is a very complicated rube-goldberg-esque mechanism to get it to work over that travel distance. I suspect this trigger is of a similar design.
Problems I see with this rifle:
1. the trigger has to be complicated to work in a bullpup design - complicated and reliable are difficult to mix.
2. I'm OK with a 5.56 NATO round under my cheek with the extensive failure testing done by Steyr for the Austrian military, and almost 40 year history of the rifle. I'm not OK with a .300 Win Mag round under my cheek when I pull the trigger, especially with a new, untested design. I'm guessing Mr. Pfeifer didn't intentionally try to blow up his gun with a double charged .300 WM round, like Steyr did (many times).
3. This would be yet another rifle I have to check local gun regs before I put in the truck. I know it won't meet minimum length rules in the PRK.
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Re: The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
The back of the buttstock is the 'breech block' and swings open, so you can manually load a round. Yep, it's a single shot. The striker is under the barrel and travels *rearward* when released, and it hits a rocker that has a nub on it to hit the primer. They've really gone to some trouble to minimize overall length.Flintlock Tom wrote:I'm having trouble visualizing a 26" barrel and only a 27.5" OAL.
Manually load a single round through the back of the butt-stock?
And, a 2 round magazine?
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Re: The Coolest Rifle I've Seen In A While-Pfeifer SR2
This. If you bother to follow links in the original post, the owner says the rifle has a very crisp (unbullpup-like) 1.1 lb pull. I agree that it's not the handsomest gun in the world--that thumbhole stock looks like something from an old Norinco SKS. Consider, though, that all the business end of the action is in that last 1 1/2" of the stock. I think it's rather ingenious. Strictly speaking, is it a bullpup at all?Greg wrote:The back of the buttstock is the 'breech block' and swings open, so you can manually load a round. Yep, it's a single shot. The striker is under the barrel and travels *rearward* when released, and it hits a rocker that has a nub on it to hit the primer. They've really gone to some trouble to minimize overall length.Flintlock Tom wrote:I'm having trouble visualizing a 26" barrel and only a 27.5" OAL.
Manually load a single round through the back of the butt-stock?
And, a 2 round magazine?
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