From the guys at Boberg Engineering comes a live fire video of the XR-9 in action.
Video link here, hosted on nrahab.com for your convenience. Edit: Video may not play correctly in all browsers, I recommend you save the video.
If you don’t remember from my SHOT ’08 coverage, the XR-9 is a truly unique new handgun design, which by using an unconventional feeding mechanism inspired by machine gun design allows you get to get a much longer barrel into a package smaller than a Glock 26. The longer barrel allows for better terminal performance and more velocity from the 9mm round, which performs best at higher velocities.
Here’s a still shot of the XR-9, with the slide opened up, an empty in the air and another round being fed directly into the chamber.
The guys at Boberg are also talking about producing a “Shorty” version as well, you can see an artist’s impression here. We’ll keep you posted with continued updates as the XR-9 continues it’s development and eventual production.
Oddly, all I hear is the sound and get no video.
And I wonder if Mr. Boberg would be interested in trading one of those pistols for some web work. ‘Cuz that site needs a little help 😉
There is a slight browser issue if you’re using Firefox, you might want to right click and Save Target.
I tried. I switched to IE (*shudder*) but Media Player just plays the audio (very loudly, I might add).
Do the casings eject upwards? Since I can’t see the video I can’t tell, but I can’t really make out where the ejection port is from that picture.
Yeah, you’ll probably just have to save the video. It runs from my browser using Quicktime and a plugin.
The ejection port is on the side, the cases come out up and to the right.
Do you know what codec it uses? Because I couldn’t get it to play on VLC, Quicktime, or Windows Media Player.
No, I really have no idea.
I got it to play correctly in Windows Media Slayer and Quicktime; but other than that I can’t really help you.
I found out it needs an Indeo “IV50” codec. It’s apparently can’t be found on anything except Windows.
I thought about this a bit last night… and came up with something.
http://drstrangegun.blogspot.com/2008/02/interesting-but-not-new.html
this one goes straight on my “i want to own one some day” checklist. mr. Boberg, if you’re reading this, don’t you dare go out of business before i scratch up the money to get through to the XR-9’s place in the lineup.