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		<title>RCI XRAIL (Roth Auto Index Loader)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The RCI XRAIL (Roth Auto Index Loader) is a auto index loader magazine extension that can expand a tubular shotgun magazine to hold up either 14 rounds (compact version) or 23 rounds (full version).

This video shows the XRAIL mounted on a Benelli M2 Tactical. The benelli magazine appears to be shortened and the gun can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The RCI <a href="http://www.xrailbyrci.com/products.htm">XRAIL</a> (Roth Auto Index Loader) is a <em>auto index loader</em> magazine extension that can expand a tubular shotgun magazine to hold up either 14 rounds (compact version) or 23 rounds (full version).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/xrailwbg.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/xrailwbg.jpg','popup','width=800+20,height=361+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" class="tfb_thumbnail"><img rel="thumbnail" src="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/xrailwbg-tm.jpg" height="180" width="400" align="" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Xrailwbg" title="" longdesc="" /></a></p>
<p>This video shows the XRAIL mounted on a Benelli M2 Tactical. The benelli magazine appears to be shortened and the gun can now hold a total of 26 rounds.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cropped-web-6-06-26-07-autoloader-us-patent-pending-60926991.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cropped-web-6-06-26-07-autoloader-us-patent-pending-60926991.jpg','popup','width=640+20,height=317+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" class="tfb_thumbnail"><img rel="thumbnail" src="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cropped-web-6-06-26-07-autoloader-us-patent-pending-60926991-tm.jpg" height="198" width="400" align="" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Cropped Web 6 06-26-07 Autoloader U.S. Patent Pending  60.926.991" title="" longdesc="" /></a></p>
<p>Now I will be honest with y&#8217;all, I don&#8217;t actually know what an &#8220;auto index loader&#8221; is. This is how I imagine the system may work:</p>
<p>* Each of those tubes are a magazine.<br />
* Each of those magazines feeds into the shotgun magazine.<br />
* Once a magazine is depleted it rotates.<br />
* The final magazine contains a spring long enough to feed the shells that are in the shotgun&#8217;s magazine.</p>
<p>Because I enjoy making you suffer by awful drawings, here is a graphical representation. The blue box represents the shotgun magazine. The red boxes represents the XRAIL magazines. In this example the shotgun magazine holds three rounds while the XRAIL has three &#8220;magazines&#8221;, with two holding two shells, and the third a spring.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-15-17.png" onclick="window.open('http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-15-17.png','popup','width=514+20,height=564+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" class="tfb_thumbnail"><img rel="thumbnail" src="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-15-17-tm.jpg" height="294" width="268" align="" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Picture 15-17" title="" longdesc="" /></a><br />
<em>First two shots<br />
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<a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-18-13.png" onclick="window.open('http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-18-13.png','popup','width=514+20,height=547+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" class="tfb_thumbnail"><img rel="thumbnail" src="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-18-13-tm.jpg" height="286" width="269" align="" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Picture 18-13" title="" longdesc="" /></a><br />
<em>3rd and 4th shot.<br />
</em><br />
<a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-19-11.png" onclick="window.open('http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-19-11.png','popup','width=529+20,height=699+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" class="tfb_thumbnail"><img rel="thumbnail" src="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/picture-19-11-tm.jpg" height="353" width="267" align="" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="Picture 19-11" title="" longdesc="" /></a><br />
<em>Last three shots<br />
</em></p>
<p>I have watched the above video frame by frame and there is seems to be some additional things happening during the magazine rotation. Maybe I am completely wrong &#8230; in which case I would have patented my above idea and not blogged about it <img src='http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' title="icon wink RCI XRAIL (Roth Auto Index Loader) photo" /> </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/xrailgc.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/xrailgc.jpg','popup','width=800+20,height=442+20,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false" class="tfb_thumbnail"><img rel="thumbnail" src="http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/xrailgc-tm.jpg" height="221" width="400" align="" border="1" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt=" Xrailgc" title="" longdesc="" /></a></p>
<p>The system will be able to work on multiple guns. From what I have seen on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?gl=NZ&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;search_query=xrail">youtube</a> Benelli and Remington autoloaders work with the XRAIL. I don&#8217;t see why this system could not be adapted to work on pump action shotguns, aside from the fact that if would have to be mounted quite far forward.</p>
<p>A very interesting product. Hopefully it will come to market soon (and probably a video game as well, when game designers get word of it)</p>
<p>Hat Tip: <a href="http://www.tactical-life.com/online/products/rcis-xrail/">Tactical Life</a></p>
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