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Fabricated Prop Gun: Only One Available. This is a very nice Prop Gun version of the Soviet WWII Issue Anti-Tank Gun, a large caliber semi-automatic rifle widely used in the eastern front. This prop gun is completely inert, has a receiver / grip area mostly made from wood, with some pipes used on the front to simulate the barrel, gas tube, and other parts like the bipod.
Inside the receiver area is a deactivated Steyr-Mannlicher M.95 action by Steyr, which at one time may have been functional, but now is completely inert and welded up.
Measuring 83 inches long, this is a 1:1 scale prop, and is VERY impressive. This would be perfect for both static display as well as reenactment.
The PTRS-41 or Simonov anti-tank rifle (Russian: ПротивоТанковое Ружьё Симонова) was a World War II-era semi-automatic anti-tank rifle firing the 14.5×114mm cartridge, produced and used by the Soviet Union. In the years between the World Wars, the Soviet Union began experimenting with different types of armor-piercing anti-tank cartridges. Finding the 12.7×108mm insufficient, they began development of what became the 14.5×114mm armor-piercing round. Rukavishnikov developed his anti-tank rifle M1939 [ru] to use this cartridge, but it was not successful because of some manufacturing issues, a sufficient number of more effective anti-tank guns in the Red Army, and high expectations about new German tank armor.
In 1941, the loss of huge amounts of anti-tank artillery created a need for a stop-gap anti-tank weapon, so famous USSR weapons designers such as Vasily Degtyaryov and Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov were tasked to design anti-tank rifles. Both were considered simpler and more suitable to wartime production than an updated Rukavishnikov rifle. Simonov used elements of a family of his 7.62x54R self-loading rifles and carbines which he continued to develop after his 1938 design lost to SVT-38 to create a scaled-up self-loading rifle.
The five-round magazine is loaded into the receiver and held under pressure by a swing magazine underneath. On firing the last round, the bolt is held open, and the magazine release catch can be operated only when the bolt is locked back. The gas-operated PTRS has a tendency to jam when dirty, and the 14.5 mm cartridge produces significant residue, blocking the gas port. The 14.5 mm armor-piercing bullet has a muzzle velocity of 1013 m/s and devastating ballistics. It can penetrate an armor plate up to 40 mm thick at a distance of 100 meters.
The semi-automatic anti-tank rifle was used extensively on the Eastern Front in World War II. It was used successfully by Hero of the Soviet Union Sergeant Yakov Pavlov during the Battle of Stalingrad when the NCO led the defence of Pavlov's House in the city. After he mounted rifles on the building's roof. Because the rifles were effective against thin armour at close range, they were able to destroy numerous German Panzers that came into range because they could shoot through the thin armour on their turret-roofs.[6] Guns captured by the Germans were given the designation 14.5 mm PzB 784(r).
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