are there any breakaction shotguns with magazines?

Question

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Answer 1

No, you break a shotgun to feed the shell(s) into the chamber. If you had a magazine you wouldn't need to break the shotgun, you would load the shells into the magazine and then insert the magazine and the spring in the magazine takes care of feeding the shells.

Answer 2

Short answer - YES. BEFORE ANY OF YOU GIVE ME THUMBS DOWN, READ ON.

Logic would say that a break action gun with a magazine (defined as a place where a cartridge is stored before being fed into the chamber of the gun), would be not practical and defeat the purpose of having a break open, over say a semi-auto or pump. And I would agree.

Up until recently this was the case. Unfortunately, logic does not rule in the case of designing new firearms, and the answers stating "no" previous to this are wrong. I'm disappointed that JD didn't get this - as a gunsmith he should know SOME manufacturer has TRIED EVERYTHING at somepoint. ;-)

http://www.ugb25xcel.com/index.aspx?m=53&did=56

Meet the Beretta UGB25. A single barrel, semi-automatic break-open shotgun with two shell capacity.

While it lacks a traditional tube or box magazine, the UGB25 has an external shell holder (for all intents and purposes a single shot magazine by definition). One in the tube, one in the defacto magazine, and you have a single barreled two-shot semi-automatic magazine-fed break-open shotgun.

If that doesn't qualify as a magazine-fed break-open, I don't know what does. Weird as all hell, but you can't call it anything else.

Addendum: Considering the question in the first place, I don't think the "OP" considered "break open" vs. "break action". Its still a single-barrel shotgun that breaks open, but has the means of firing two shells without being reloaded manually - something every other SB shotgun lacks. A Beretta pistol is irrelevant to the discussion, as a matter of functionality...you're more likely to be feeding a shotgun a single shell at a time as its broken open, regardless of operation, for something like trap or skeet single targets.

Answer 3

Close, Ace, but not quite there.

The original poster (the OP) said "break action", not "break open". There is a distinct difference.

A "break action" is a gun that opens to load and opens again to eject the spent casing after firing. A "break open" is simply a method of attaching the barrel. It neither opens to load (it's primary method of functioning is as a semiauto) nor does it open to eject.

By that same logic of calling that a break action magazine fed shotgun, a Beretta .22 with a tip up barrel could be called a break action pistol. How often have you ever heard it as such, though?

Gotta agree with JD.

Answer 4

The two things are incompatible.
If the action breaks, where would you put the magazine that it wasn't in the way?
How would the rounds be fed into the chamber(s) as they swiveled back up without binding the whole mess up?
Sorry, no, it doesn't exist.

Answer 5

Sorry......As a Gunsmith I can assure you that no break action
firearms of ANY TYPE existing that have magazines..There would be no logical point in having one.

Answer 6

Break Actions are loaded manually.

Answer 7

Not that I know of. Why would you want one ? if you want a scattergun with a mag, get one with pump action or semi-auto. Do you want the break action just for style ?

Answer 8

Nope.

With a break open gun, you carry the spare ammo in your pocket or shooting bag.

Doc

Answer 9

NO.* Why don't you invent one?*

Answer 10

i want one if so but idk brotha