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#10MinuteTalk – Bullpups – What’s up with these things?

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Bullpup firearms have long been the choice of sci-fi movie heroes (or villains) and middle schoolers playing their friends in Call of Duty. They look crazy cool with all the common features of a regular rifle or shotgun, seemingly thrown into an engineering blender, coming out on the other end with parts in weird places that look nothing like their more traditional gun cousins. Adam Maxwell joins Jimmy and Mark to discuss what all the fuss is about these unique looking firearms, why they exist and their various pro’s and con’s of operation and ownership. What do you think about Bullpups? All about ‘em? Or are they just cool to look at?

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0:00.0

All right, what's up everybody? We have 10 minutes here with Mr Adam Maxwell joining us to discuss what's the deal with bullpups and in front of us here, of course we have Mark to my left as well, but in front of us us we have two SBRs is that what they are

0:15.6

are the pistols that no they're full on SBRs and then we have one to vor

0:20.4

bullpup kind of the one of the more classic Bullpups or designs that you may think of when you think of this kind of a design.

0:28.0

And first off, Adam, for those not familiar, can we just give them a quick rundown on what even a bullpup is?

0:32.0

So a bullpup is kind of an evolution

0:35.4

on rifle technology that has stemmed from kind of military doctrine for the West and you know certainly the European

0:45.1

countries stems out of fighting on the plains of Europe but as we've gone

0:50.9

through the Cold War and global politics and all that stuff the wars that are going on have moved more towards mechanized wars and in tighter confined places, jungles, and urban areas.

1:03.5

So full-size battle rifles, if you like go back

1:06.3

all the way to World War I,

1:07.8

have started to condense down into intermediate cartridges

1:11.5

and now intermediate-length rifles. And so. into intermediate

1:12.5

length rifles.

1:14.5

And so one of the ways that they've done that

1:17.5

is just chop condition, you know, existing designs

1:21.3

into shorter barrel designs,

1:22.7

or the idea with the bull pup was to take a completely

1:26.4

blank sheet of paper and incorporate

1:28.9

a full length barrel into a rifle that was physically smaller.

1:35.0

So we did that by moving the action back

1:37.2

basically underneath your face

1:39.2

inside the stock.

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