Headstamp publishing friendship is Max popenker: OVER
Story of the Russian Avtomat: CANCELED by author
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Any chance Ian had of doing anything in Russia is gone. He will never get into museums over there. He will never interview anyone from there.
Gah, that's one of the books I really want to read, too. I pray he can salvage this somehow
At the moment it looks like scaling gauss cannon down to realistic/usable dimensions, sacrifices a lot of performance. The Arcflash anvil weighs 20lbs.
In spite of being far lower powered, it looks a lot more fun than the heavy piece of shit Ian just took a look at. Looks sleeker overall.
The Caselman isn't well known but that thing is close to .32 ACP in power.
Always figured that the design of that thing could be improved by putting the tube on the side of the gun, and turning it into a bullpup so you wouldn't have so much barrel out front.
I remember some autistic German trying to build one and go on a Tarrant style livestreamed rampage with it while proving the utility of improvised weaponry and it was a total piece of shit incapable of doing much more than killing one person with almost suicidal levels of self-awareness.
DOOR STUCK
DOOR STUCK
PLEASE
I BEG YOU
Das Ubermensch did a lot of things wrong, and his loadout was awkward even for being Lutys and slambangs, the magazines were 3D printed, and the gunpowder he made was like, if not a mixture of potassium chlorate, something similar which burns dirty as fuck and thus completely unsuitable for automatic anything. Might even have lacked extractors, and he hadn't tested any of it in advance.
There's a thread about it onna farms.
That is the most hipster reproduction you can possibly get.
Hipster? I think you mean boomer.
But it works quite well for what it is. It's a remarkably good gun for being built to use rubber cartridges. Fast to reload for the 1860s, good enough power, and when firing with rubber cartridge cases it would obturate very well, the cases also being reusable a few times.
Also one of those guns which could then transition towards brass casings once that became the new standard, and if you didn't have the rubber cartridges available, you could roll your own paper cartridges which would still work pretty nicely (even if they don't obturate), so it's remarkably versatile for its time.
Modern plastics can also be used, and given the efforts I've seen by dudes on /k/ I'm convinced you could print a flexible polymer cartridge case which holds the proper 50 grains of blackpowder while obturating properly.
Historically, it's a really good carbine, and just practically it's better than an extractorless Luty constantly choking on filthy handloads.