Patent ID: 9683800
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: F41A,F41C

Claim:
1. A rifle, comprising: a barrel having a forward end and a rearward end, and having a chamber formed in said rearward end; a buttstock; a receiver having a forward end and an opposing rearward end, said forward end of said receiver being attached to said rearward end of said barrel, said rearward end of said receiver being attached to said buttstock, said receiver including a bolt; a firing pin carried by said bolt; a slide hammer having a hole formed therein; a spring system for urging said hammer to move forward in said receiver, wherein said spring system comprises an operating group spring coaxial with a firing spring, wherein said firing spring has a larger diameter than said operating group spring, and wherein said firing spring and said operating group spring extend through said hole in said sliding hammer; a trigger assembly attached to said receiver, said trigger assembly including a trigger having a pulled position and a released position; and a sear operatively connected to said trigger and pivotable on movement of said trigger, wherein, when said trigger is pulled to said pulled position from said released position, said sear pivots from a slide hammer-catch position to a slide hammer release position, and said sear pivots back to said slide hammer-catch position from said slide hammer-release position after said slide hammer is released by said sear.