I see that Pedersoli's website has a Gibbs target rifle listed, and it features a hooked breech block.
What gets me is that the Gibbs aparently has no ramrod as part of the rifle. I think that might be that way because it is a target competition rifle and you carry the ramrod seperate.
What I don't get is what the hooked breech block is exactly? At first I thought it might be some sort of breech loading rifle (the lack of the ramrod started that thought going in my head), but after looking around for exploded views of a pistol that had a hooked breech block. I think it is just a way to mount and demount the barrel to the wood furniture.
You hook the breech block under the back of the wood furniture into a metal part that stays on the furniture, then lower the barrel down into groove in the wood foregrip, and hammer in a wedge pin through a foregrip slot, which also goes through a tab on the bottom of the barrel, securing the barrel to the wood.
That is what a Hooked Breech Block is, correct?
What gets me is that the Gibbs aparently has no ramrod as part of the rifle. I think that might be that way because it is a target competition rifle and you carry the ramrod seperate.
What I don't get is what the hooked breech block is exactly? At first I thought it might be some sort of breech loading rifle (the lack of the ramrod started that thought going in my head), but after looking around for exploded views of a pistol that had a hooked breech block. I think it is just a way to mount and demount the barrel to the wood furniture.
You hook the breech block under the back of the wood furniture into a metal part that stays on the furniture, then lower the barrel down into groove in the wood foregrip, and hammer in a wedge pin through a foregrip slot, which also goes through a tab on the bottom of the barrel, securing the barrel to the wood.
That is what a Hooked Breech Block is, correct?