Browning 30 cal pistol grip

[Peter Laidler]

Talking of these buffers....... I often used to wonder just how effective those fibre buffers were at anything - especially buffering! I mean....., they were pretty damn solid and the notion that they would absorb the/any energy from that flying heavyweight breech block always baffled me. I can see that some of the steam will have been taken out of it by the belt feeding and cocking lever action but even so, when those 3x mechanical advantage accelerators had worked their stuff, that breech block was in orbit!

Does anyone remember the buffer assembly used on the early Cents and Conquerers(?) - where turret space was short - where the buffer tube was angled top to bottom across the rear

[fjruple]

Peter--

I have seen two styles for fixed Brownings one that angles up and a short straight buffer. Originally the design called for stiff coil springs and later the US went to the buffer disks as they were cheaper to produce. The fiber disks do not have much spring back and but do absorb the recoil of the breech bolts. The coil spring which I have several in my guns provide a little extra power to assist the breech bolt in the forward motion.

--fjruple