Re: [HoE] [HoE]Silly question

[Doug Stalker <dougs@technologist.com>]

Machine-gun Kelly wrote:

> >  My
> > character took an SA A-50, I believe it's called, and
> > took off the stock and barrel to make a rather large
> > and nasty pistol. Now what I want to know is how
> > impossible/difficult would this be and what would be
> > the game effects?
>
> If you mean the M-50 [IIRC], it's going to be impossible for the
> character to fire unless he's a cyborg with a Samson system. The recoil
> from a .50 Browning Machine-gun shell would literally snap a persons
> wrist.

It can be done.  Check out http://www.prairienet.org/guns/big/gallery.htm
for a picture of the maadi-giffen .50 BMG pistol.

However is isn't very practical for combat use... one shot, breech loading,
weighs 18 1/2 pounds and has slightly less recoil than a 12 guage shotgun
(meaning you still need 2 hands, even if it is a pistol)

There is another .50 BMG pistol image at
http://www.securityarms.com/galleryfiles/600.htm


> It would also be difficult to hold and fire the gun, even without
> the stock and barrel, because the .50 sniper rifles tend to be close to
> five feet long. With the barrel cut down as far as it could go and no
> stock, you're looking at a gun that would probably be about 1 1/2 to 2
> feet long. You'd lose range, probably knocking it down to about half of
> what it was. Giving it a shorter barrel also reduces the velocity of the
> round, which reduces damage.

According to one website, the maardi griffen pistol is acurate to 3000
yards.

Of sourse, there is a very big difference between a weapon designed to let
its users fire excessivly large rounds (recoil compensation based on russian
artillary, IIRC) and a chopped down sniper rifle... I agree with you that
that wouldn't work at all well.


One of the NPCs in Cyborgs has a set of .50 BMG pistols.. what sort of stats
do they have?

 - doug