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Blacksmith
06-15-2020, 10:10 AM
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/detail/2025/547/single-shot-shotgun-with-scarce-alofs-autoloading-magazine
Another sale including the gun:
https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/steven-s-model-94-single-shot-shotgun-with-alofs-auto-loading-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-Mfg-Co-Shotgun-Reloading-Magazine-223385325357.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.googleapis.com/a7/ea/a1/9dc39790d1d274/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.
marlinman93
06-15-2020, 10:40 AM
Great, but it's not a single shot anymore.
Blacksmith
06-15-2020, 10:58 AM
Only shoots one at a time.[smilie=1:
Texas by God
06-15-2020, 01:04 PM
An ingenious solution to a non existent problem. But I love to watch it work!

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Three44s
06-16-2020, 05:14 AM
Strange!

An invention that only its “mother” could love.

Three44s
marlinman93
06-16-2020, 11:12 AM
Only shoots one at a time.[smilie=1:

Yeah, so does my bolt action rifle, my lever action rifle, and my pump shotgun. Doesn't make them single shots either.
uscra112
06-23-2020, 05:07 AM
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.
marlinman93
06-24-2020, 10:15 AM
A solution to a non existent problem.
blackbahart
06-25-2020, 01:15 PM
almost looks like Dr Sessus had a hand in the invention
marlinman93
06-25-2020, 09:06 PM
almost looks like Dr Sessus had a hand in the invention

LOL Too funny!