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Bolt action + under barrel gas tube?
Bolt action + tubular magazine?
Airgun?
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC-2g7kIRWQ 1:30
Spanish FR8
This is identity theft
Spanish FR8?
Yes. There are several examples on gunbroker though they go for $750 - $1000.
Milsurp rifles of every description are increasingly popular in the US, and even the ones considered less desireable are commanding higher prices in present year.
omg i think thats it! thx very much :D
Looks a lot like it!
A few other stills that might help folks here, pulled down with yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC-2g7kIRWQ, and then frame-by-frame stills with mpv --start=1:20 --end=1:40 -vo image -ao null "Back to the DDR ｜ Browser Ballett [cC-2g7kIRWQ].mkv" .
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f697f543-0cd8-401c-a85a-3fda684b470f.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/88a2acc3-1e17-4c92-83b4-b452485a7a44.jpeg
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/bde8302f-cba1-44dd-8f46-85f680f3e9b2.jpeg
It looks like the back of a bolt action merged with the front of a semi-auto. What the fuck is this thing
EDIT: there aren't many rifles that do bolt-action and semi auto, but some of them do. If that's a real gun, then that narrows it down tremendously.
It's at this timestamp in the video, no additional angles, but you do get to see that the bolt opens straight up 90°, and also there's a flash hider. I think this is a drama that takes place in east germany? That narrows it down too.
The front sight really reminds me of an SKS, except not... It's like an 8-shaped peice with three holes that do front sight, barrel, and gas tube.
The rear sight looks like nothing i've ever seen. Doesn't look like the leaf rear sight that i associate with bolties.
The tube under the barrel is not bayonette storage because there's a weird plug at the end of it, it looks like you could rotate it and disassemble the tube.
Regardless if it's a real gun or not, the fact is that someone made this at some point, and i can't guess why they did it this way lol
Someone ID'd it as a Spanish FR8.
The flash hider was designed to also function as a rifle grenade launcher, compatible with NATO-standard 22 mm rifle grenades. It also has notches in it so that wire could be cut with it by firing a round. The under-barrel tube, which resembles the gas cylinder found on automatic weapons, actually serves as the bayonet mount and as storage for cleaning gear.
And by "mount" they mean "the bayonet has a giant circular hole in that this tube slides into".
At first, I was thinking that maybe it was a tubular mag rifle, like the Remington-Keane but the sights and barrel muzzle device are all wrong. I'm leaning heavily towards prop. The endcap on the forend looks weird. If it is made from real parts, I think that they turned the barrel and gas tube upside down.
Hopefully someone recognizes it or its parts and can shed some more light.
Edit: The barrel and gas block look somewhat like an SVD but upsidedown.