Engineering:MTs 30

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Short description: Soviet hunting rifle
MTs 30
Typedrilling
Place of originUSSR
Production history
Designed1960[1] - 1971[2]
ManufacturerTsKIB SOO[3][2]
Specifications
Mass3.6 - 4.0 kg (without optical sight)[3][4]
Barrel length600mm - 675mm[5][3][4]
Calibre12 gauge[4]

9×53mmR[3][4]
ActionBreak action[5][3]
Rate of firevariable
Sightsiron sights[3][4]
optical sight[3][4]

The MTs 30 (МЦ 30) is a family of Soviet high-quality custom hunting combination guns.[3][4][2]

History

The gun was designed by M. I. Skvortsov (М. И. Скворцов), A. P. Glinskiy (А. П. Глинский) and I. P. Korneychev (И. П. Корнейчев)[2] in 1960s[5] - 1970s.[2]

The first information and the first photograph of the new experimental three-barrelled combination gun MTs 30 were published in October 1960.[1] The MTs 30-13 was announced in August 1961.[5]

After tests and trials,[2] in 1979, the first MTs 30-09 shotgun was shown at VDNKh exhibition in Moscow.[4] It was produced by TsKIB SOO in small numbers.[3]

In January 1979, the price of one custom MTs 30-09 gun was up to 2000 rubles.[4]

Design

MTs 30 is a hammerless combination gun, with one barrel under two other.[3][4]

  • MTs 30-01, MTs 30-02 and MTs 30-03 have rifled barrels with four grooves[1]
  • all 9mm rifled barrels have six grooves[3] with 320 mm twist rate.

It is equipped with safety mechanism and ejector.[4]

All guns have a walnut shoulder stock (with cheekpiece) and fore-end,[1] some of them were decorated with engravings.[3][4]

MTs 30 can be equipped with optical sight.[1][5][3]

  • The first test prototype was equipped with TO-6P (ТО-6П) optical sight,[2] although next guns were equipped with PO-4×34 (ПО-4×34) or TO-6PM (ТО-6ПМ) sights.[4]

Variants

  • MTs 30-01 (МЦ 30-01)[1] - the first test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 5.6mm rifled barrel chambered for experimental cartridge. It was equipped with TO-6P optical sight[2]
  • MTs 30-02 (МЦ 30-02)[1] - the second test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 6.5mm rifled barrel chambered for 6.5×38mmR round[2]
  • MTs 30-03 (МЦ 30-03)[1] - test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 7.62mm rifled barrel chambered for 7.62×38mmR round[2]
  • MTs 30-09 (МЦ 30-09) - model with two smoothbore 12/70mm barrels and one 9×53mmR rifled barrel[3][4]
  • MTs 30-12 (МЦ 30-12) - model with two 9×53mmR rifled barrels and one smoothbore 12/70mm barrel[3]
  • MTs 30-13 (МЦ 30-13)[5] - test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 7.62mm rifled barrel chambered for 7.62×38mmR round[2]
  • MTs 30-20 (МЦ 30-20) - test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 5.6mm rifled barrel chambered for .22LR round[2]

Users

  •  Soviet Union[1]
  •  Belarus - MTs 30-12 is allowed as civilian hunting weapon[6]
  •  Russian Federation - was allowed as civilian hunting weapon. On December 13, 1996, president of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin signed the federal law № 150, which entered into force on July 1, 1997. In accordance with this law, possession of civilian firearms chambered for handgun ammunition was prohibited.[7] As a result, since July 1, 1997, all MTs-30 guns chambered for handgun ammunition were banned on the territory of the Russian Federation and they had to be handed over to governmental law enforcement agencies for destruction.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Тройник МЦ 30 // журнал «Охота и охотничье хозяйство», № 10, октябрь 1960. стр.38
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Виктор Рон. Первая трёхстволка ЦКИБа // журнал "Оружие", № 9, 2012. стр.63-64
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 А. В. Кузьминский. Оружие для охотника: практическое пособие / под общ.ред. А. Е. Тараса М., ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2002. стр.203-204
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 И. Шишкин. Новые ружья на ВДНХ // журнал «Охота и охотничье хозяйство», № 1, 1979. стр.30-31
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 М. Мардер, Д. Матвеев. Новые ружья для промысловой охоты // журнал «Охота и охотничье хозяйство», № 8, 1961. стp.35-39
  6. ↑ «2.1.1.3-1/008 Ружье охотничье комбинированное МЦ 30-12»
    Указ Президента Республики Беларусь № 71 от 13 февраля 2003 года «Об утверждении Положения о порядке ведения и издания Государственного кадастра служебного и гражданского оружия и боеприпасов и Положения о порядке проведения сертификации служебного и гражданского оружия и боеприпасов» (редакция от 10 июля 2015 г.)
  7. ↑ ст.3 Гражданское оружие // Федеральный закон № 150-ФЗ от 13 декабря 1996 года "Об оружии"

Sources

  • МЦ-30 // История Тульского оружейного завода, 1712 - 1972. М., "Мысль", 1973. стр.479
  • МЦ-30-09 // журнал «Охота и охотничье хозяйство», № 6, 1982. стр.31
  • М. М. Блюм, И. Б. Шишкин. Охотничье ружьё. М., «Лесная промышленность», 1983. стр.93-94
  • Kulobrokový troják MC-30-20 // «Střelecká revue», 3, 1975




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