Stechermaniac a écrit :pour ma culture personnelle, quelqu'un sait d'où vient le nom "bullpup"?
Une "théorie venant du web sur un forum de tir Anglais...
"I'd al ways been told that it derived from an English dog breed, the bullpup. Originally bred for rat-catching, they had short legs, were rather small overall, but were quite strong, roughly equal to some bigger dogs like the (Welsh) border collie. Bullpup rifles also originatyed in England, originally intended for use by physically-challenged sport shooters, such as those confined to wheelchairs or lacking one hand or arm. The shorter overal length of a rifle with the (at that time) bolt or falling-block action set back into the stock comb made them more easily used by people who for whatever reason had difficulty handling a full-length rifle. As they were shorter than a conventional rifle, but stil retained nearly-full power due to having a longer barrel than a carbine, someone took to calling them "bullpups"- and the name stuck.."