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Pump action shotguns are in almost every action movie, and are a cornerstone of everything from the military to police to hunting to home defense. How do they work?
Even plenty of people who own and have fired pump actions don’t really understand how they work.
Lucky for them, this is on the internet so they never have to admit they didn’t know to their friends.
Using a cutaway Winchester Model 1912, commonly called the Model 12, we see functions of the guy through a full cycle of loading, chambering, firing, and extraction.