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Yours Truly 2095 said:
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Wouldn't be George's first trip around the stripper clip pistol block.
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Bonus tactical version.
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Yours Truly 2095 said:
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So he's actually made this exact concept before at his last company. He's just bringing it back and making it even better. All the gun Twitter people with their cool guy nods and blacked out censored pfp and shit being so pretentious and "WOOOOW WHO ASKED FOR THIS" is really obnoxious. Not truly gun people at all
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Those tactical fags like Lucas botikin are almost as annoying as the 3d2a trannies/leftists.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
I think I want one after just looking at it. It's sexy, has plenty of rounds, and I like the grey. Might save up for it, idk.
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They look nice But Ruger has a mixed track record with handguns and I already own a glock 19 so it would be redundant. Hopefully it's a solid gun.
 
$400 MSRP for a 5.7 isn't that bad and it's probably legal in some ban states. Seethe all you want but I like it. Might get one if I get a fat tax refund.
 
I would love a modern Steyr-Hahn, but 5.7 doesn't seem worth the meme in this case.
Though I do see why they went with it, even for a carry gun. No worries about loading magazines, 5.7 has little recoil, 20 rounds on tap, rotating barrels don't suck and no theoretical worries about accidentally hitting the mag release.

It seems like a good gun but doubling the value by loading one magazine with glorified .22 magnum is not the best selling point for me.
 
Ok so weird question I got stuck in my head recently.

I was looking at old MGs and LMGs, like pre and mid WW1 stuff. A lot of them were water cooled and air cooling only really began to take off mid war. By the interwar period almost all watercooling was abandoned and aircooling was the rule of the day and it still is today.

Nowadays pretty much all LMGs and MGs have air cooling, and if you run them for long enough to actually weaken the barrel from overheating you are expected to quick swap the barrel right? Like how the MG42 / MG3 does it and the SAW and such and so.

My question: could someone jury rig a watercooling jacket for a MG3/SAW and have it work like a old school watercooled gun? Like if I put a jacket and filled it with water would it just work and be heavier and less mobile with longer times between needing to stop firing / barrel warping? Or are modern guns of this type simply built different in a way that trying to push water cooling wouldn't result in improvements or cause malfunction (like idk heat stress cracks or some shit)?
 
General Emílio Médici said:
Ok so weird question I got stuck in my head recently.

I was looking at old MGs and LMGs, like pre and mid WW1 stuff. A lot of them were water cooled and air cooling only really began to take off mid war. By the interwar period almost all watercooling was abandoned and aircooling was the rule of the day and it still is today.

Nowadays pretty much all LMGs and MGs have air cooling, and if you run them for long enough to actually weaken the barrel from overheating you are expected to quick swap the barrel right? Like how the MG42 / MG3 does it and the SAW and such and so.

My question: could someone jury rig a watercooling jacket for a MG3/SAW and have it work like a old school watercooled gun? Like if I put a jacket and filled it with water would it just work and be heavier and less mobile with longer times between needing to stop firing / barrel warping? Or are modern guns of this type simply built different in a way that trying to push water cooling wouldn't result in improvements or cause malfunction (like idk heat stress cracks or some shit)?
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My knowledge of metallurgy is sufficient only to know that I know fuck-all, but I'd imagine it'd mostly work. It'd take some unholy redneck engineering to accomplish, though. Maybe there's something with barrel profile making it flex differently water cooled versus air cooled, but that's the only issue I can think of. The obvious answer is that it's more valuable to have the quick-change than to dissipate enough heat that you can absolutely obliterate one barrel's throat in one go.
 
Here's another Genuinely Retarded Idea For A Gun If Money Was No Object from me.

I'd like to see an modernized LeMat. Say, 9-10 rounds of .44 Magnum revolving around a 12 gauge barrel with a swing-out cylinder. Sure it would require a tax stamp and only a roid-monkey like Kentucky Ballistics would be able to fire it one-handed, but it would make for one HELL of a fun range toy.

(Obviously, it would also require a great deal of engineering to build a heavy-duty crane on the gun to support such a massive cylinder and under barrel assembly.)
 
General Emílio Médici said:
My question: could someone jury rig a watercooling jacket for a MG3/SAW and have it work like a old school watercooled gun? Like if I put a jacket and filled it with water would it just work and be heavier and less mobile with longer times between needing to stop firing / barrel warping? Or are modern guns of this type simply built different in a way that trying to push water cooling wouldn't result in improvements or cause malfunction (like idk heat stress cracks or some shit)?
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I mean you could if you really wanted to do so but in the end there's no benefit. The light machine guns you want to theoretically convert to water cooled are designed for air cooling and barrel swaps for a reason and you'd only get more problems than you'd ever solve by do8ng so. The MG3 and SAW are meant to move with the infantry they're assigned to, water cooling them would just bog them down to being fixed emplacement. Water cooling is only really beneficial for fixed positions or mounted one where a logistics system can keep them regularly supplied with water for the most part. That's much harder when troops are out in the field away from supply lines with your proposal.
 
General Emílio Médici said:
My question: could someone jury rig a watercooling jacket for a MG3/SAW and have it work like a old school watercooled gun? Like if I put a jacket and filled it with water would it just work and be heavier and less mobile with longer times between needing to stop firing / barrel warping? Or are modern guns of this type simply built different in a way that trying to push water cooling wouldn't result in improvements or cause malfunction (like idk heat stress cracks or some shit)?
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In my highly intellectual mockup here, you can see that my hypothetical cooling line (heat exchangers are probably easier to retrofit than entire jackets) still weighs more than spare barrels do.

So that's the answer: Yes, you can do it, but it is suboptimal if you own more than 1 barrel (and most militaries do)
 
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