Use a decent pillow and you should have no issue with the pound or two steel under your pillow...Agreed
Ye gods! Ever try to sleep on a pound or two of lumpy steel?
Use a decent pillow and you should have no issue with the pound or two steel under your pillow...Agreed
Ye gods! Ever try to sleep on a pound or two of lumpy steel?
I vote @Kleanbore the Baron of Brevity.
I know this for a fact as I am a black powerder fan. Love my smokesticks. But when I read that last quoted sentence I suddenly flashed on some kind of almost Rube Goldbergian contraption that you poured black powder into some kind of hopper and a spring loaded tube of lead balls......Why do people keep say the semi auto is as old as revolvers? The revolver is much older. Remember the revolver existing before the metallic cartridge. The semi-auto did not exist until well after the metallic cartridge was invented.
LOL, I like it. Not quite that rudimentary as your idea but there was the shortly lived Rocket Ball and Volcanica Repeating Arms company (founder later created S&W) where the bullet was the cartridge. It was not a semi-auto but it was repeating using an action very similar to a Henry Lever Action.I know this for a fact as I am a black powerder fan. Love my smokesticks. But when I read that last quoted sentence I suddenly flashed on some kind of almost Rube Goldbergian contraption that you poured black powder into some kind of hopper and a spring loaded tube of lead balls......
I absolutely swear I haven't had any alcohol since a beer with dinner last night, I'm at work (ssshhhhhh... Don't tell the boss) and certainly not allowed to drink on the job. I came up with that sober. Scary, huh?
There were full automatic matchlocks that were loaded with a column of charges that were ignited one by one....But when I read that last quoted sentence I suddenly flashed on some kind of almost Rube Goldbergian contraption that you poured black powder into some kind of hopper and a spring loaded tube of lead balls......
Those still exist today, it's called Metal-Storm just uses electric ignition.There were full automatic matchlocks that were loaded with a column of charges that were ignited one by one....
I wonder about the feasibility of developing something similar in concept, but modern?LOL, I like it. Not quite that rudimentary as your idea but there was the shortly lived Rocket Ball and Volcanica Repeating Arms company (founder later created S&W) where the bullet was the cartridge. It was not a semi-auto but it was repeating using an action very similar to a Henry Lever Action.
Turning a volcanic repeating arms ammunition inside out and you get modern case-less ammo. It works and has several advantages but it also has enough problems as to have never made it a successful military or commercial product (yet).I wonder about the feasibility of developing something similar in concept, but modern?
Actually west Germany almost adopted the HK K11 Rifle with it's 4.7x33mm Caseless Ammo. The only reason the Nation didn't was due to Fall of Berlin Wall and both West and East Germany reunited. The new Country ended up with large numbers of AK47 and AK74 Assault Rifles and a budget crunch from the cost of the reunion.Turning a volcanic repeating arms ammunition inside out and you get modern case-less ammo. It works and has several advantages but it also has enough problems as to have never made it a successful military or commercial product (yet).
Actually west Germany almost adopted the HK K11 Rifle with it's 4.7x33mm Caseless Ammo. The only reason the Nation didn't was due to Fall of Berlin Wall and both West and East Germany reunited. The new Country ended up with large numbers of AK47 and AK74 Assault Rifles and a budget crunch from the cost of the reunion.
See the things you can learn if you listen. That's cool, thanks KleanboreThere were full automatic matchlocks that were loaded with a column of charges that were ignited one by one....
I'm sure both the Ammo and Rifle would had many improvements made during its lifetime of service. Hell the M16 when first issued to to grunts on the front line had multiple issues.It was slated to go into full production but never did due to the reason you mentioned. I think it would have had a rough life as a military product. The ammo is still not robust enough for the rough handling typical of military operations. The gun works but you have to be relatively gentle with the ammo at least until it is in a magazine. It also has a heat problem. The brass cartridge takes a lot of the heat with it when ejected. On a caseless gun all the heat that would have gone to the brass goes to the chamber and cook off was going to be an issue in long fights. It was a cool gun and very close to prime time ready but I think there are still a few problems to make it really ready.
And to get back on topic, sort of. The HK G11 used a revolving chamber so it was sort of a semi-auto revolver, sort of...
Well the step up from the HK-11 would be a magnetic "rail gun".I'm sure both the Ammo and Rifle would had many improvements made during its lifetime of service. Hell the M16 when first issued to to grunts on the front line had multiple issues.
Wouldn't that be going way back to single shot rifles? Would the the caliber be tiny needle size that go straight though a solder doing very little or anything at all?Well the step up from the HK-11 would be a magnetic "rail gun".
Depends on the velocity and bullet construction whether or not it goes through a soldier or not, and it doesn't necessarily need to be a tiny needle like projectile, as long as the jacket can be subjected to a powerful magnetic field.Wouldn't that be going way back to single shot rifles? Would the the caliber be tiny needle size that go straight though a solder doing very little or anything at all?
Rail gun??? Are they basically the size of large tank cannons?Depends on the velocity and bullet construction whether or not it goes through a soldier or not, and it doesn't necessarily need to be a tiny needle like projectile, as long as the jacket can be subjected to a powerful magnetic field.
Not a litteral "Rail(road) gun", more like a "magnetic rail gun", they could be as small as a pistol and/or a carbine.Rail gun??? Are they basically the size of large tank cannons?
Show me a picture of one that actually exist... Rail Guns are the size of large tank and ship cannons.Not a litteral "Rail(road) gun", more like a "magnetic rail gun", they could be as small as a pistol and/or a carbine.
They don't exist in a "man portable" size except in SciFi films and in video games, however as technology progresses they will be a reality at some point because the concept behind them is sound, because all they are is a projectile propelled via a powerful magnetic field, well a linear partical accelerator is sort of a kind of "mag rail gun".Show me a picture of one that actually exist... Rail Guns are the size of large tank and ship cannons.
Have you any idea about how much electrical energy would be required to fire one effective shot?Not a litteral "Rail(road) gun", more like a "magnetic rail gun", they could be as small as a pistol and/or a carbine.
Have you any idea about how much electrical energy would be required to fire one effective shot?