Re: [DL] Double Rifle?

["Joe Kaczmarek" <kilgore_the_mad@hotmail.com>]

>	Along the same line there was discussion some time back about a
>British sniper rifle of the period that fired an octagonal (hexagonal?) 
>bolt
>instead of a bullet.  Twisting the barrel provided the spin for the bullet
>instead of the groves found in normal rifles. Does anyone have any
>information on this weapon and its potential game stats? I assume it would
>be expensive and hard to find/make new bolts for. Thanks!
>

Ive done some research about guns for school, and Ive read something about 
these types of guns.  The ones I read about werent sniper rifles per se.  
They were field pieces, say gatling sized, with one barrel and several 
rotating chambers.  They came with both regular barrels for round cartriges, 
and barrels for square or hex charges, "for use against the infidel" was the 
add campain.  In my (admittedly humble) opinion, you would only run into 
these things if you were in a british controlled part of the world, IE 
Africa or India, or the Suez area.  If you do happen to run into them, I 
would give them damage about in the middle between cannons and big rifles, 
and make then ROF 1 and speed 1 or 2, with 6-8 shots.  And they would take 
an ungodly time to reload.

Mad Doktor Kilgore

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