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Pancor Jackhammer

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Pre-production Pancor Jackhammer - proprietary 12 gauge
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Last remaining prototype Pancor Jackhammer - standard 12 gauge. Note MP5SD handguard

The Jackhammer is a bullpup automatic shotgun which never entered production, using a revolver-style detachable cylinder with a rotating action similar to the British Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver, and a gas-seal system similar to that of the Nagant Revolver, though with the barrel moving back to form the seal instead of the cylinder moving forward. A forward-back pump-action forend is used to cock the weapon initially, after which it indexes automatically. The mechanism is indexed by a cam on an operating rod attached to the barrel, which moves in a zig-zag groove to rotate the cylinder to the next chamber with each forward-back motion. The barrel is blown forward by gas tapped from the bore and returned under spring pressure.

It is often seen in videogames as a "super shotgun;" the Jackhammer's popularity is due, in large part, to the futuristic look of the weapon, and sometimes mistakenly described as the only fully automatic shotgun in existence. There is an element of unreality in featuring the Jackhammer in any context, as the weapon never made it past prototype stage; only two guns capable of firing in fully automatic mode were ever made. The real guns had problems with magazine grooves needing to be manufactured to extremely tight tolerances for the weapon to cycle correctly; typically, the fullauto guns could only manage two or three shots sequentially before failing to cycle. The weapon's design was also cumbersome and uncomfortable to shoot, and the factory-sealed cassette magazines of the final version could not be reloaded in the field. A well-known fact is that more Jackhammers have appeared in fiction than ever existed in real life.

Two pre-production weapons were subject to full destructive testing, and just one functional Jackhammer remains in existence, a heavy toolroom prototype with a cylinder which accepts standard 12-gauge shells. This is not the final version, and among other things requires that the weapon be almost completely dismantled in order to reload it. For a time this weapon was owned by designer John Anderson; it was later sold to a movie armourer and fitted with the handguard of an MP5SD since the original smooth handguard was thought to be too slick to reliably operate. The weapon is currently registered to a collector in New York.

The Pancor Jackhammer can be seen in the following video games:

Specifications

(Designed in 1984 and patented 1987, never produced)

  • Type: Shotgun
  • Caliber: 12-gauge
  • Weight: 10.1 lbs (4.57 kg), about 14 pounds for toolroom prototype
  • Length: 31 in (78.7 cm)
  • Barrel length: 20.7 in (52.5 cm)
  • Capacity: 10-Round preloaded cassette (production), 10-round revolver cylinder (prototype)
  • Fire Modes: Safe / Semi / Full-Auto

Video Games

Game Title Appears as Mods Notation Release Date
Fallout 2 1998
Delta Force: Land Warrior 2000
Project IGI: I'm Going In Incorrect 12-round capacity 2000
Max Payne Incorrect 12-round capacity 2001
Fallout Tactics 2001
The Sum Of All Fears 12ga Auto SG 2002
Project IGI 2: Covert Strike Incorrect 12-round capacity 2003
Rainbow Six 3: Iron Wrath 2003
Söldner: Secret Wars 2004
Far Cry 2004
Battlefield 2 Incorrect 7-round capacity 2005
Deadhunt 2005
The Darkness Incorrect 64-round (!) capacity 2007
7.62 High Calibre Jachhammer Mk3A2 w/ optional suppressor 2008
Battlefield Play4Free MK3A1 2011
Battlefield 3 MK3A1 Back to Karkand expansion,
incorrect 8 and 12-round capacities
2011
Warface Piledriver 2012
Ghost Recon: Phantoms M3A1 shown with railed top 2014