Experimental sniper rifle SREM-1 (Great Britain, 1944)

The SREM-1 (Sniper Rifle Experimental Model 1) rifle was developed in Great Britain in 1944. The rifle is designed according to the bullpup scheme and is one of the first small arms developments in the world according to this scheme. It was created by a team led by Eric Hall
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The weapon has a gas-operated automatic system. Ammunition is fed from five-round magazines from the Lee-Enfield No. 5 rifle (Lee-Enfield Jungle Carbine). The pistol grip is taken from the Bren machine gun. In 1944, the British General Staff decided that the future infantry cartridge would be 7.92x57 and the SREM-1 was designed for this cartridge. It was a rather original system. The weapon was supposed to be used as a sniper weapon and equipped with an optical sight accordingly. The designer of this rifle, Eric Hall, found an original way to solve one of the main drawbacks of the bullpup - the ejection of spent cartridges near the shooter’s face, which made it impossible for left-handers to use a weapon of this design. The ejection of cartridges in the Hall rifle was carried out (as can be seen in the picture) to the rear, over the shooter’s shoulder. A special cartridge-ejection tube passing through the butt served for this purpose. To extract the cartridge case to the rear, Hall used a vertical sliding wedge bolt instead of a longitudinally sliding bolt, which was operated by a gas system. The extraction of spent cartridges, as well as the feeding and loading of a new cartridge, were provided by special parts of the rifle mechanism.
The first prototype produced had an overall length of 38 inches (965.2 mm). The barrel was 23.75 inches (603.25 mm) long. The rifle weighed about 3.6 kg. The design of the rifle turned out to be quite functional, but, apparently, too bold for that time and, alas, it did not receive the necessary development.

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The only 5-round magazine for the No. 5 I’m aware of is the magazine for the .22 training rifle, which was developed post-war. Of course, this is without even mentioning that the No. 4 and No. 5 rifles shared magazine designs (not interchangeable though, magazines were hand-fitted in the factory to a specific rifle and were not guaranteed to fit others, technicly also possible with the No. 1 rifles but even more of a hassle to get them to work with later models), so there was no “new” magazine development unique to the No. 5. The SREM-1 perhaps used a new proprietary magazine design based on the Lee magazine (but different)?

There’s however the problem here that this rifle might actually not have ever worked, but only served as a proof of concept. I say this because many sources describe the SREM-1 as “manually operated”, which to me means it wasn’t a true self-loading design, but functioned more like a straight-pull rifle (think Mannlicher or Ross rifle). In other words, a mockup prototype of a semi-auto rifle, but not actually a functional one. This would have been very early in the British development of a self-loading (and bullpup) rifle after all, so this does make sense, it’d be another decade until a succesfull one was adopted (that being the EM-2 in 51, even longer if we only look at the long-term L1A1 SLR)

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Its in other ww 2 games there is a lot of info about it:

Why did this British pump-action sniper not get adopted? With firearms expert Jonathan Ferguson

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