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.
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.