Excellent video/animation of Browning M1917

[Wildey]

The guy who put this together is truly talented, this is very well done and an excellent reference for the function of the 1917.....and for those with the 1919 or M37, the parts and function are nearly identical. He has several other really great animations as well.

 

[Wildey]

I thought I would bump this, just because it is so cool and well done.

 

[OldDude]

Cool!
Thanks for posting this - I missed it the first time.

 

[gewehr76]

Doesn't show what exactly extracts the fired case.
is it extracted by feed guide of the bolt? then unfired next cartridge ejects spent case ? by pushing spent case down and out of the gun?

 

[DavenK]

Doesn't show what exactly extracts the fired case.
is it extracted by feed guide of the bolt? then unfired next cartridge ejects spent case ? by pushing spent case down and out of the gun?

It's a T-slot on the bolt face.
When the round is fed through the top, it slides in the T-slot and yes, the next cartridge ejects the spent casing.

You can some what see it at 2:27

 

[Grizzly Adams]

What's the purpose of the bell shaped aperture on the rear sight ?

Grizz

 

[recce]

I'm guessing it's the "battle sight". The aperture gets smaller for the longer range as with the C1's disk sight, the larger aperture allows you to see more of the tgt area for close in tgts.