Who first made this design?

[Dangon092]

With the advancement of pcp airguns I see this trend of bullpup design, side lever cocking, pellet probe delivering the projectile from far back behind the action, bladed trigger, big carbon fiber bottle up front, and tactical AR type build. While this is all fine and dandy, and boy do I love my FX Impact, I'm just wondering who first designed this build? Was it just ideas from different manufacturers along the way? Did one brilliant guy make this design and other Companies copied and made changes and improvements themselves? And I get that some of the examples I put up might function a bit differently from one another, but what I'm getting at is all these designs are relatively similar in build. Thoughts?

 

[Franklink]

lol, here we go.....

 

[FarmPlinker]

Form follows function.

 

[Airgun-Revisions]

Out of all the pics you posted the Prophet is the oldest. The Huban’s were the first hammerless in that design.

 

[woogie_man]

Bullpups go WAY back....believe the early 50s there were bullpups. So nothing new by a long shot

 

[MikeVV]

Dang -

As is normal...a quick look into Google...will provide you with the answers that you seek !!

The design was looked into in the very early 1900's, but didn't become a reality on the battlefield until the mid 1950's, and didn't become widely known until the mid-late 1970's with the Steyr AUG.

As far as, air powered guns following firearm form...don't know, I'm new to the airgun form, but I'm glad it did.

Mike

 

[Ca_Varminter]

Well getting into the Tactical designs... using and pistol grip and AR15 buttstock........
Chip Smith. was the FIRST!!!!!
With his Chassis For the Theoben Rapid....
I Planned on using a Rapid Receiver with a Ti. Airtube.
I then ask Chip when was going to do another run of his Tactical Chassis, could he make a custom one for me!
He told no problem, he just need long piece of aluminum, and a couple of minutes of CAD time.!
Here what he came up with...My California Varmint Special as he called it!
Chip doing some Machining..

Here it is in the RAW

I had do a couple of changes before Hard Anodizing it!
I also made an adapter to use a standard AR style pistol grip!!
Also along the way I got on of his Titanium Receivers!!

Here is a photo of my design next to the standard chassis for a bottle Rapid....

So the rest is Airgun history!!!

 

[darylm]

I saw in a video once that the Impact Mk 1 was really the first tactical bullpup produced in any meaningful numbers.