BLOCK ACTION FOR SPORTING GUNS DROPPING BREECH

摘要

The dropping breech block action has a cocking mechanism and a movable breech block. A firing pin, a firing pin spring and a trigger are mounted in the breech block. An actuating element is engaged in the breech block and is actuable independently of the cocking mechanism. This actuating element acts on one of the two abutments between which the firing pin spring is engaged, and is operable to actuate the one abutment, while the breech is closed and the firing pin spring is tensioned, to relax, at least approximately completely, the tension of the firing pin spring without firing of the gun. The actuating element is further operable, through the one abutment, to re-tension the firing pin spring.