Gun-bunnies rejoice!

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-02-15 01:08am

Rubberanvil wrote:
The Dark wrote:It'd be a bit big for an SMG. Muzzle wear would be a bitch, and you'd need a thick firing pin. Be a bear of a gun. Thompsons are already heavy enough, and they're .45 calibre. Considering a .50 cal is a light anti-materiel rifle, I don't think you'd NEED a .50 SMG, unless you're planning on hunting Hummers. Hey...wait...can I get one of those .50 SMGs? I need one next time I'm driving on I-4.
Souns a bit like the pistols.

Sounds to me like rush hour on 35-E..

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-15 01:25am

Connor MacLeod wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:Then again in Marshal Law, you have to have meta human augmentation to use them, and in Stainless Steel Rat, they are gyrojet pistols, with variable warheads.

I still think Jim DiGritz is a bad ass for being able to use one (Or maybe it's his growing up on a High G planet....
2" diameter guns is like 4x the diameter of a .50 caliber, if my math is right. We're talking something more like a grenade launcher or a shotgun.

Depending on the muzzle velocity, I imagine that weapon would have a brutal recoil, augmentation or no.

Well Marshall Law can throw a car at you. and uses both hands when firing that gun.

Jim DiGritz is only a heavy world modded human, and his 50mm & 75mm pistols are just fancy gernade launchers meets 40k bolters. Still it's one of the less believable things about the Sci-fi Comedy Series....

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-02-15 06:06pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:
Connor MacLeod wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:Then again in Marshal Law, you have to have meta human augmentation to use them, and in Stainless Steel Rat, they are gyrojet pistols, with variable warheads.

I still think Jim DiGritz is a bad ass for being able to use one (Or maybe it's his growing up on a High G planet....
2" diameter guns is like 4x the diameter of a .50 caliber, if my math is right. We're talking something more like a grenade launcher or a shotgun.

Depending on the muzzle velocity, I imagine that weapon would have a brutal recoil, augmentation or no.
Well Marshall Law can throw a car at you. and uses both hands when firing that gun.

Jim DiGritz is only a heavy world modded human, and his 50mm & 75mm pistols are just fancy gernade launchers meets 40k bolters. Still it's one of the less believable things about the Sci-fi Comedy Series....

Bit O' Heaven's a heavy world? Geez, sci-fi people love to send religious nuts to wacko worlds. Grayson, BOH...

And it's DiGriz, BTW. James Bolivar DiGriz. I've got "A Stainless Steel Rat is Born" right here, just found an old copy at the local library. Already read three or four others, hadn't run across this one in Orange County.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-15 06:27pm

Connor MacLeod wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:Then again in Marshal Law, you have to have meta human augmentation to use them, and in Stainless Steel Rat, they are gyrojet pistols, with variable warheads.

I still think Jim DiGritz is a bad ass for being able to use one (Or maybe it's his growing up on a High G planet....
2" diameter guns is like 4x the diameter of a .50 caliber, if my math is right. We're talking something more like a grenade launcher or a shotgun.

Depending on the muzzle velocity, I imagine that weapon would have a brutal recoil, augmentation or no.

.50cal=12.7mm, however once you go above 1 inch you don't normally use caliber to tell you the diameter of the barrel, it gets used for the length of the barrel in terms of diameter lengths. Thus a 12 inch gun that's 25cal is 25 feet long.

Atlan · Post by **Atlan** » 2003-02-15 08:03pm

The Dark wrote:
The Yosemite Bear wrote:
Connor MacLeod wrote: 2" diameter guns is like 4x the diameter of a .50 caliber, if my math is right. We're talking something more like a grenade launcher or a shotgun.

Depending on the muzzle velocity, I imagine that weapon would have a brutal recoil, augmentation or no.
Well Marshall Law can throw a car at you. and uses both hands when firing that gun.

Jim DiGritz is only a heavy world modded human, and his 50mm & 75mm pistols are just fancy gernade launchers meets 40k bolters. Still it's one of the less believable things about the Sci-fi Comedy Series....
Bit O' Heaven's a heavy world? Geez, sci-fi people love to send religious nuts to wacko worlds. Grayson, BOH...

And it's DiGriz, BTW. James Bolivar DiGriz. I've got "A Stainless Steel Rat is Born" right here, just found an old copy at the local library. Already read three or four others, hadn't run across this one in Orange County.

AFAIK DiGriz is just a regular Joe in the fitness department. The original books certainly didn`t mention him being a heavyworlder. People might be confusing him with Jason DinAlt from the Pyrrus novels, or Brion Brandd.
And the guns in the Stainless Steel Rat books are described as being recoilless, which is a good thing with that caliber....

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-16 02:41pm

Stainless Steel Rat joins the Army

He got "Modified" as part of the training process.

Atlan · Post by **Atlan** » 2003-02-16 03:54pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Stainless Steel Rat joins the Army

He got "Modified" as part of the training process.

? The only book that I know of that you can refer to is "The Stailess Steel Rat Gets Drafted", and I really can`t remember any kind of body modifications in there. Lots of sadistic drill sergeants, but that was it.
Just being curious, but could you get a page or a quote for me, I`m a bit of a fan of the series, and unless it is a new book I`m at a loss.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-16 05:06pm

I'm going off memory....

Since I haven't read the two prequels in over a decade, nor do I remember where I put them....

Fuck, I'm wrong.

I have no evidence just faulty perception.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-02-16 05:27pm

Still...nothing beats BWS .50 BMG pistol

Especially when used with the Nuke 50 round.