Re: [HOE] Unity Question... [PEG/SHANE/WHAT THE HECK, EVERYONE!]

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

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> Something else to think about as well is pivot.  If you hold the pistol in a
> normal aim and fire when you are floating free in zero-g you will pivot
> about your central point as well as drift back.  The Traveller concept of a
> 'snub pistol' is a large calibre, but small propellant charge, pistol held
> pulled into the waist and aimed with a laser sight, designed specially for
> zero-g.

I recall some B-scifi movie where they used shotguns in space. The
justification were that shotguns were the ideal (cheap) projectile weapon
to use because they were so "inefficient", they allow a lot of gas to
escape (and so don't cause a lot of blow-back) and they are un-rifled so
the pivoting problem occured to a less extent.

Having fired a shotgun (and had a sore-shoulder) I would argue with the
less blow-back theory, but the un-rifling seems to make sense.

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab, Safety Warden (Bldg. 85)


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