MTs 30
The MTs 30 is a family of Soviet high-quality custom hunting combination guns.
History
The gun was designed by M. I. Skvortsov, A. P. Glinskiy and I. P. Korneychev in 1960s - 1970s.The first information and the first photograph of the new experimental three-barrelled combination gun MTs 30 were published in October 1960. The MTs 30-13 was announced in August 1961.
After tests and trials, in 1979, the first MTs 30-09 shotgun was shown at VDNKh exhibition in Moscow. It was produced by TsKIB SOO in small numbers.
In January 1979, the price of one custom MTs 30-09 gun was up to 2,000 roubles.
Design
MTs 30 is a hammerless combination gun, with one barrel under two other.- MTs 30-01, MTs 30-02 and MTs 30-03 have rifled barrels with four grooves
- all 9mm rifled barrels have six grooves with 320 mm twist rate.
All guns have a walnut shoulder stock and fore-end, some of them were decorated with engravings.
MTs 30 can be equipped with optical sight.
- The first test prototype was equipped with TO-6P optical sight, although next guns were equipped with PO-4×34 or TO-6PM sights.
Variants
MTs 30-01 - 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 sightMTs 30-02 - the second test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 6.5mm rifled barrel chambered for 6.5×38mmR roundMTs 30-03 - test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 7.62mm rifled barrel chambered for 7.62×38mmR roundMTs 30-09 - model with two smoothbore 12/70mm barrels and one 9×53mmR rifled barrelMTs 30-12 - model with two 9×53mmR rifled barrels and one smoothbore 12/70mm barrelMTs 30-13 - test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 7.62mm rifled barrel chambered for 7.62×38mmR roundMTs 30-20 - test prototype with two smoothbore 20/70mm barrels and one 5.6mm rifled barrel chambered for .22LR roundMTs 140 - next model with two 650mm smoothbore 12/70mm barrels and one 9×53mmR rifled barrelUsers
- - MTs 30-12 is allowed as civilian hunting weapon
- - one MTs 30 is registered as civilian hunting weapon
- - 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. 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.