A Series of Tubes: The Alofs Reloading Magazine

A Series of Tubes: The Alofs Reloading Magazine

This is an interesting concept. An automatic reloader for a single barrel break action shotgun.

Link to a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNIkca8k1UQ

Some come up for sale:
https://www.rockislandauction.com/de...ading-magazine
Another sale including the gun:
https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/st...-system-170120

It appears they occasionally come up for sale individually.
Links to individual sales:
https://www.gunauction.com/buy/5106900
https://picclick.com/Vintage-ALOFS-M...385325357.html

Here is a link to the Patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US1507881A/en

For those who like to tinker here is a link to the patent file in PDF format for ease of printing.
https://patentimages.storage.googlea.../US1507881.pdf

And here is a longer video that shows more details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbXOFkmKyiY
See David Raful's posts in the comments he is working on blueprints.

Great, but it's not a single shot anymore.

Only shoots one at a time.[smilie=1:

An ingenious solution to a non existent problem. But I love to watch it work!

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Strange!

An invention that only its “mother” could love.

Three44s

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Originally Posted by Blacksmith

Only shoots one at a time.[smilie=1:

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Yeah, so does my bolt action rifle, my lever action rifle, and my pump shotgun. Doesn't make them single shots either.

It looks to me like you'd get the back end of the thing in the bridge of your nose when you fired the gun! Unless of course if you're a lefty.

A solution to a non existent problem.

almost looks like Dr Sessus had a hand in the invention

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Originally Posted by blackbahart

almost looks like Dr Sessus had a hand in the invention

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LOL Too funny!