Hi guys, thanks for tuning into another video on ForgottenWeapons.com
I'm Ian McCollum and I am here today in Kreutz Lincoln Switzerland at the kessler auction house
And I figured if I'm going to be in Switzerland. I should at least take a look at a Swiss gun
So I found this very unusual one. This is a sig 550
Variant which they only made about twelve of it is specifically a sig
Vrb or pump-action rifle German that would be of order shaft rip
I think or something like that. Anyway BRB
We have seen some things like this in the United States. The one that comes to mind. Most notably is the Romanian Wasser three
Five five six caliber a K that was imported as the par-3 a pump-action rifle
And this is basically the exact same idea
It's taking a semi-automatic action and converting it to pump action so that it is no longer
Semi-auto and thus much less restricted in many countries now, I believe
SIG's development here was originally intended for sale in France. But of course, they only made like twelve they never actually
Came on to the commercial market. So there are just a few of them when they scrapped the program. They sold most of them off
They were made both in 222 Remington and 223 Remington caliber because of course prior to 2013 in France
223 Remington or five times six NATO
Was a restricted caliber for civilian possession even in a manually operated rifle like this
So typically the typical conversion for five five six would be 222 Remington
the
Execution of this thing is actually really pretty good this this would not be a terrible rifle. It's too bad
I don't have the opportunity to shoot it because it would be fun to take this out and actually run some rounds through it
The construction of this rifle is well
It's basically the same lower as you would have on any other semi-automatic sig 550 note
There is a two position safety selector safe and single
Not that a burst selector. Would do you any good on a non semi-auto rifle the upper has actually been modified
This is a sig PE 90. This is the semi-auto
Well actually sent me auto
Version of the rifle and you can see that there is a cutout back here and there is a charging handle in the bolt
Both of which are absent from the pump-action version
of course the standard rifle also has
Well, this particular one has a diopter sight on it where the pump rifle came only with a Picatinny rail
Moving to the barrel. It is just a barrel with an operating rod here connecting directly to the bolt. So it cycles
Simply like that
it does lock open on an empty magazine because the bolt catch is
Intact that's in the lower so I can release that by pushing the bolt catch up
Dropping the bolt. It comes with a
little cute little five round magazine
although all standard sig 550 magazines did fit it and
It is not threaded at the end, but it does have a built-in flash hider
We'll go ahead and take the front end off here. What we have is a
series of spring detents that hold the handle onto the op rod and if I just push in
here
You can
deactivate those
There we go
so now
The handguard cover that pump handle comes off
Then I can remove the front pin. This is identical to a standard rifle
Normally this would hold on the handguard in this case. It holds on this
Well barrel shroud is really what it is
And the pumphandle cycles over this but when the handles forward this prevents you from burning your hand on the barrel
It's really just a plain simple sheet metal tube with a lug to attach to the receiver
And underneath that is a standard
550 barrel
Now I can pull out the rear pin
And this is under a fair amount of spring tension
There's our totally standard lower with a semi-auto fire control group
On the upper we can pull out the recoil spring and guide
And then pull
Bolt assembly out
You'll note on the barrel. There is no gas block. There's no gas port. There's no provision for one some pump-action rifles have a dummy
front sight block or gas port on there the 550 does not so that's part of the reason you don't have a
Rear iron sight is that there's no provision for a front sight
So here's our pump-action bolt and here is a standard signified 50 bolt on the 550
The operating rod is actually connected to the mainspring which is in the well
It's housed above the barrel under the handguard and the bolt is connected to it by the charging handle. So what you would do is
bring this down and
The charging handle connects the two together on the pump rifle
They have made this operating rod one integral piece with the bolt carrier. In fact, you can see right here
They had a pin
That held the two or holds the two together, which has then been welded over and of course
You don't have the cutout to allow for the charging handle
So I'm sure that part of SIG's design process on this was making sure that there was no way that the pump rifle could be
easily converted into a semi-auto because
that would have serious implications for their ability to export the pump rifle and they did a really thorough job of that there is definitely
No easy way to convert the pump rifle into a semi-auto rifle
So there is the whole thing
Disassembled it's a neat rifle. Obviously, it's one that exists solely because of
legislative restrictions and
Apparently it turned out that there wasn't enough of a market for something like this to justify cig manufacturing it in any quantity
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Thanks to the Kessler auction house for letting me take a look at this guy
And if you're ever in Switzerland and have the chance definitely stop in and take a look
They have an open public gallery of firearms both up for sale up for auction and simply on the wall awaiting transfer
One of the better gun shops I have ever seen in mainland Europe. Thanks for watching