Air pistols with self-cocking

Auto-cocking

— the most advanced option to date: when auto-cocking, the shooter needs only to press the trigger until the magazine / drum is empty to make each next shot (similar systems, by definition, are used in multiply-charged weapons). The specific implementation of such a scheme may be different. For example, in the so-called In double-action revolvers and some pistols, the platoon is carried out due to the muscular strength of the shooter: when the trigger is pressed, the trigger becomes cocked, the drum (if any) rotates, and only then a shot occurs. The advantage of this option is reliability, the disadvantage is a significant effort on the descent, which requires strength in the hands and a certain skill (however, in some models this moment can be compensated by the possibility of a trigger cocking). A semi-automatic mechanism is more convenient, when the energy of the gas is spent not only on accelerating the bullet, but also on the operation of automation — here the efforts applied by the shooter are generally minimal. However, this option increases the cost of the weapon and either reduces muzzle velocity or increases gas consumption; and in revolvers it makes no sense to use it at all. Note that the so-called pistols also belong to the auto-platoon. single action, in which for the first shot the weapon must still be cocked manually; the defining moment here is that after that the mechanism works automatically. But single-action revolvers are not auto-cocked — they belong to trigger models.