Cobray Terminator

[100 bullets]

It's also an open bolt (open bbl???) gun, ATF ruled their open bolt MAC guns were MGs because they were too easy to convert so another nose thumb. There was also a rumor going around that one can add a magazine and convert these to full auto, of course this was before anyone had much info on them other than ad copy. May explain the high price for essentially a $40 gun...

I would Imagine using a dremil to cut section on the receiver and use a 3 or 5 round magazine from an old bolt action shotgun, except wouldn't work because shell has to be removed manually and mechanism would require stripping of a round from the front. But using 3 rd shot gun mags I think that could work due to how they sit in the mag. I think making way to eject shell would be the hard part but like you said easier to start from scratch. Would be a cool 4 rd mg, after 4 rds FA would you want to shoot anymore out of that

 

[sniperdoc]

From what I've seen, in FA the recoil would be both uncontrollable and nearly unbearable. You get the barrel slamming back in addition to the recoil.

 

[sniperdoc]

I want to be PERFECTLY CRYSTAL CLEAR about this:
I am only discussing this as a matter of "if it were legal".

There's a lot that would have to be done for the Terminator to be made FA; a totally new mag design is just the start. The barrel has to be "cocked" manually and there's a barrel lock to consider.

This gun is best enjoyed, or laughed at, for what it is: an odd, unique, "tacti-cool" firearm that was manufactured by a company that became (in)famous for the MAC series SMGs and the Streetsweeper shotgun.
Seen in that light, it is an interesting piece of firearms history.

 

[MacMan]

I can tell you a bit about the Terminator shotgun. I bought one when they first came out.

 

[MacMan]

Terminator

If you zoom in on the manual, you can see the manufactures information.

 

[MAC MAN]

When we talked to Wayne Daniel for The MAC MAN book, Wayne told us he wanted a gun to use to get another gun. Like a last ditch weapon. Like the Guerrilla Gun which was slam-fire. But I always thought as some of you that it was a finger in ATF's eye as you could no longer make an semi open bolt gun and they made an open barrel gun.

 

[MacMan]

A Terminator is the last gun I'd choose as a last ditch weapon. It's heavy and shooting anything but low brass will require pushing the spent casing out with a stick. The recoil causes other issues as well.

 

[sniperdoc]

When we talked to Wayne Daniel for The MAC MAN book, Wayne told us he wanted a gun to use to get another gun. Like a last ditch weapon. Like the Guerrilla Gun which was slam-fire. But I always thought as some of you that it was a finger in ATF's eye as you could no longer make an semi open bolt gun and they made an open barrel gun.

That's believable.

 

[sniperdoc]

I understand the concept of low cost,simply constructed, reliable e weapons; they have several uses, everything from spare hunting guns to sales in poor areas to cheaply arming partisans.
H&R/NEF sells untold numbers of cheap Single Shots every day,&there's a Single Shot Shotgun in every gun safe,and gun stores,I've ever seen,so the concept is indeed marketable.
However, as the Terminator is a single shot, a standard Open Bolt "should" be legal.

 

[MacMan]

It's more of a "slam-fire", than on open bolt, considering the firing mechanism is fixed.

 

[sniperdoc]

It's more of a "slam-fire", than on open bolt, considering the firing mechanism is fixed.

True.
I saw a video,can't recall the guy's name, but he was shooting a weird single shot that required the shooter to jerk the barrel rearward to fire it. IIRC, it was made in the Philippines.