UNDERWATER SPORTING PISTOL Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: sporting weapon. SUBSTANCE: underwater sporting pistol uses cartridges with a powder charge, has two barrels and two translationally moving strikers actuated in succession by the same trigger. To cock the strikers, use is made of a lever hinge-mounted on the barrel block and separating from the strikers at the end of closing of the barrel block due to the chamfer in the frame. The striker pin is freely secured on the striker and spring-loaded relative to the striker. The frame has a hole which receives the striker collar at the end of the striker stroke, striker cylindrical part and water between them, which allows to transfer energy from the striker to the striker pin and capsule due to a hydrodynamic hammer. EFFECT: prevented intentional or accidental shot in the air. 3 cl, 10 dwg