JemmySoviet soldiers training with anti-tank rifles, Defense of Moscow, WW2, 1941
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The collar breaker
It’s not entirely obvious from the OP photo, but the chamber recoils on a sliding mechanism with spring resistance against the trigger and stock. This design reduces the felt recoil. Not a design that maximizes comfort, but it was designed to be shootable.
Oh I know, thats the colloquial name for it. “collar breaker”
That’s some disturbingly flimsy construction for that kind of pressure. “This will either kill tank or you. Either way, not your problem anymore, da?”
The OP picture makes the PTR-D rifles look deceptively small, when in fact they are quite massive.
The chamber and bolt are sturdy, and that’s all that the rifles really have.
The lack of any kind of magazine or gas system or any other feature since it is a single shot rifle also gives it a slimmer appearance.
Thanks for the additional context, and I agree the original image makes it look significantly worse than the ones you provided. That barrel still looks rather slim to me though, but that might just because of how incredibly bloody long it is, making the proportions seem off to modern sensibilities.
Maybe I’m just a soft decadent Western pussy, but firing 14.5 × 114 mm with a max. pressure of 52,000 psi out of that thing still doesn’t appeal to me.
Would you believe 5.56mm has a higher PSI spec?
If I hadn’t just looked it up, I might have found it difficult, but… 62,366 psi.
What’s the Russian Orthodox version of ‘Hail Mary, full of grace’?
“Well, I guess it got worse,” I think.
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