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Fuck it. Full auto beltfed widow sniper rifle. I posted this on reddit a while back.

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For the first ever post on this blog, THE GUN IN THIS BLOG'S PFP!!!! :D

THIS FUCKING MECHANISM! UTTER CONTRAPTION! GIZMO-CORE DOOHICKEYCEL! FUCK MY CONVENTIONMODER FUD LIFE!

The TKB-022PM, designed by Russian Gunsmith German Alexandrovich Korborov in The Year Of Our Lord 1964. If you recognize that name (or if you don't, I'm not asking), you'll also know that man as the Soviet Answer to George Kellgren, including the unmitigatable urge to bullpup everything. Man's been cranking out bullpups since 1946, absolute legend.

Anyway, this was designed to replace the then-nearly-20-year-old AKM as The West was starting to adopt the 5.56x45mm round (aka .223, 5.56 NATO, or The Round Everything Longer Than A Foot Uses), making the shift from full-power .308 NATO Battle Rifles to smaller, faster, easier-to-use Assault Rifles.

The TKB-022 PM is a complete redesign of the TKB-022P (image below) (CW Vaguely Phallic)

As you could (hopefully) tell, the redesign was done to help with some (hopefully obvious) ergonomics issues. Because the "updated" version with the TKB-022P No.2 is basically a bullpup conversion of the gun above, including an external trigger bar that just makes it look somehow fouler.

There are three seperate versions of the TKB-022PM, known as the No.1, No.2, and PM5 No.1. The No.1 and 2 are both chambered in 7.62x39mm and use AKM magazines, while the PM5 shoots a wildcat 5.6x39mm cartridge, a precursor round to the 5.45x39mm cartridge used by the AK74 family of rifles (and every Russian standard-issue infantry rifle since the 1970's)

For some mystery, the only image of the No.1 I could find is this. (image below)

It looks different compared to the topmost image, with a different front sight, darker bakelite color and a ridged block in front of the trigger to act as a foregrip. I need to reiterate that this is the only No.1 pic I could find, it was posted on a fandom wiki and reposted on Reddit by someone falsely labelling it as just TKB-022 EVEN THOUGH THAT'S THE NAME FOR THE ENTIRE ENGINEERING PROJECT TO MAKE THAT RIFLE!!! WHAT'S NEXT U/YUXINWU00 THE FIRST EMPEROR OF CHINA'S JUST NAMED QIN??!!

That same fandom wiki lists the topmost gun pic as the PM5, the gun shooting that wacky 5.45 precursor. Yet I don't really buy it. Both the No.1 and the (supposed) PM5 use similar magazines with similar overall dimensions, hell if you look closely enough the two guns use the exact same mag, they just look different due to bad lighting. Collectively that specific mag's called the Bulgarian Steel Mag, after it's country of origin (Bulgaria), it's material composition (Steel), and it's intended function within a firearm (Mag). Everytime you see a generic steel AK mag, nine times out of ten it's Bulgarian.

So I have no idea if the topmost gun, the gun I'm ranting about, is the No.2 or the PM5. Either that fandom wiki got the pic wrong, there's a Bulgarian .220R Steel Mag that I have yet to find, or .220 Russian is compatable with 7.62 magazines and the PM5 is largely an internal change to accomodate the barrel. There's no data to support any of those conclusions, so unless someone decides to clarify I'll just assume that the topmost gun is the No.2

For function, it's fucking weird. (Vid below as a visual aid) (credit to the fella responsible for the vid below) (there's also a model of this on world of guns, there's like 50,000 vids on this gun that are really just WoG gameplay with some extra editing. The model itself is presumably the No.2 as it shoots steel-cased 7.62, either that or WoG got their facts wrong)

How it cycles: A gas-operated short-stroke piston helps to both shove new rounds near the bolt and to chuck spent casings out the front. Only issue is that the case-extraction alone looks like an eldritch horror and basically uses a second barrel and a hodgepodge of spring-loaded pistons and clamps I'll call a pseudobolt for brevity. An extractor lever on the back of the gun pushes casings upward, letting the pseudo-bolt shove them into the brass tube so they may atone for their sins.

How it shoots: Three words, vertically moving breechblock. Pivots up to seal a round in the chamber, pivots down to let the casing out. The Wikipedia article labels it as a bolt, which it simultaneously is and isn't. It's weird, everything's weird, you clicked on this wanting weird, I hope you get your fill from this.

How to load: There's a charging handle on the side that reciprocates with the pseudobolt (#fuckthelefthanded) and pushes the bolt down via something that looks vaguely like a pair of tweezers. Aside from that, standard operation procedure, shove the thing into the thing, yoink the thing, turn the thing, bangbangpewboom.

Reception: I don't know :(

The only mention of this thing that doesn't concern function is a brief blurb on Wikipedia that lacks any citations. It states that it functioned well and was very accurate for its size. Take that with a grain of salt though, could've been made by Koborov's Ghost's alt account

The weird-hybrid-extractor-pseudobolt bullshit also gives it the distinct honor of both having the greatest barrel-to-overall-length ratio out of any automatic rifle that I'm aware of (525mm overall, 417mm barrel length), and it's also one of the few real-world instances of "where the bolt go?"

The Soviet Military, echoing a sentiment familiar to anyone that knows about the USAF's favorite hobby, ditched it, not because it didn't work, not because of some major malfunction but because it was a bullpup and it had a plastic body.

One must imagine Comrade Koborov happy.

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I mean...WTF...but if it works..

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