When you talk about “gas-cycling”, do you mean gas-operated? In that case there aren’t many of those guns around. For instance the desert eagle has a fixed barrel & shroud and any attachments go on that fixed section.
The Laugo Alien is similar with a fixed top strap, and it relies on gas-delayed blowback. This is to increase accuracy of both the barrel and the sight, so it’s something people do take into account.
Most handguns are short recoil operated or blowback and have mounts that reciprocate with the slide, in which case the other answer you got was pretty good. I’d just add that with light high strength polymers and miniaturisation, the red dots can be extremely lightweight and don’t deal with huge forces to begin with, because it doesn’t take a lot to accelerate them.
I apologise in advance, the British aren’t as au fait with handguns as the test of the world.
I mean that - when a round is discharged - some of the exhaust gases are used to push the top slide back against the recoil spring, and cycle the weapon in a semi-automatic fashion, á la Glock 17 or Browning 9mm HP.
Either way, it just seems insane that modern optics can survive those kinds of forces. Kinda cool actually.
Okay, so it sounds like you just mean semi-automatic, which is the term that people will understand that concept by.
For the technical terms, there are three main ways it can work, called blowback, recoil operated and gas operated.
I suppose descriptively you’re not wrong, since the forces required to do all of these are initially transmitted via gasses. It’s just the term “gas cycled” caught me out because it’s got a technical meaning.
The glock and the browning are both recoil operated, as are most handguns of that basic description. Some are blowback, and gas operated is rare for a pistol because it’s massively overengineered for a simple pistol calibre. It’s usually used for rifles which have more powerful rounds.
I’m Aussie and we don’t have a lot of guns here either, it’s just my gun nerd granddad who had piles of books on the subject that I learned from.
When you talk about “gas-cycling”, do you mean gas-operated? In that case there aren’t many of those guns around. For instance the desert eagle has a fixed barrel & shroud and any attachments go on that fixed section.
The Laugo Alien is similar with a fixed top strap, and it relies on gas-delayed blowback. This is to increase accuracy of both the barrel and the sight, so it’s something people do take into account.
Most handguns are short recoil operated or blowback and have mounts that reciprocate with the slide, in which case the other answer you got was pretty good. I’d just add that with light high strength polymers and miniaturisation, the red dots can be extremely lightweight and don’t deal with huge forces to begin with, because it doesn’t take a lot to accelerate them.
I apologise in advance, the British aren’t as au fait with handguns as the test of the world.
I mean that - when a round is discharged - some of the exhaust gases are used to push the top slide back against the recoil spring, and cycle the weapon in a semi-automatic fashion, á la Glock 17 or Browning 9mm HP.
Either way, it just seems insane that modern optics can survive those kinds of forces. Kinda cool actually.
Okay, so it sounds like you just mean semi-automatic, which is the term that people will understand that concept by.
For the technical terms, there are three main ways it can work, called blowback, recoil operated and gas operated.
I suppose descriptively you’re not wrong, since the forces required to do all of these are initially transmitted via gasses. It’s just the term “gas cycled” caught me out because it’s got a technical meaning.
The glock and the browning are both recoil operated, as are most handguns of that basic description. Some are blowback, and gas operated is rare for a pistol because it’s massively overengineered for a simple pistol calibre. It’s usually used for rifles which have more powerful rounds.
I’m Aussie and we don’t have a lot of guns here either, it’s just my gun nerd granddad who had piles of books on the subject that I learned from.