PIG shooters want a fast repeater for hunting in brush and high grass where shots are close and targets are plentiful. In recent years, this has led to the importation of a number of slick-functioning lever-action and straight-pull field guns. Now an even faster reciprocating action has hit the market — the Celikarms Buckmaster PB 12.
The Buckmaster is entirely different, a unique design utilising an in-line gas/inertia system which cycles in a similar way to many conventional self-loading designs and, in doing so, it all but eliminates muzzle rise during firing. Yet it is not self-loading and cannot be converted to work that way.
The gun is packed with a number of unique features that make it evolutionary, fast functioning and pleasant to shoot.
Its forearm contains not only the recoil spring, but most of the working mechanism. Like some straight-pull and auto-loading shotguns, the recoil spring is wrapped around the magazine tube inside the forearm and not housed in the receiver or buttstock.
The magazine tube fits through a black steel gas chamber made integral with the underside of the barrel which houses a piston, then progresses through a short stainless steel tube some 4.5cm (1¾”) long welded to an action arm
