Thread 64108281

post crazy weapons

>>64108281 (OP)
o/k/

>>64108281 (OP)
When the US air force still had their own space program they invented this concept for combat on the moon.

>>64108315
wish they had made that, looks badass

>>64108315
nice space blunderbuss umbrella

>>64108517
THERE'S 40 LAWSUITS ON THE DRUM...

>>64108532
this has to be a joke

>>64108315
Doesn't look bad for point man in the jungle or CQB either.

>>64108950
Raw-dogging that thing without a vfg must’ve been awful.

>>64108532
>>64108916
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>>64108967
>>64108970

I imagine the source of these being some gun enthusiast mad over increasing calibers and size of revolvers.

> These drawings are two of several sent to Robert Abels by Steven Ickes over the course of several years. The were originally published in Abels' 1950 book Early American Firearms. They were also published in a chapter called "Fancy Free" in Lewis Winant's book Firearms Curiosa from 1955. They are totally imaginary (surprise, surprise!) and, interestingly, not too wild compared to some of the real guns that Winant reports.

> The amusing thing (other than the concepts) was that Ickes named one of his creations "Python" at least five years (and probably more) before Colt produced the first Python, the first snake-named Colt. Probably coincidental, but it makes you think.

>>64108962
VFGs can be useful for fighting muzzle climb on submachine guns but they are fucking retarded for hard recoiling handguns. Reaching the front grip with your off hand means your main arm must have its elbow bent quite a bit....and THAT is a very bad thing.
I know from experience. I had to drive my friend to the hospital to get stitches in his face after he tried that with the gun in picrel. Dude tried to put his support hand under the foreend instead of backing up his main hand on the grip. It recoiled straight back, scope smacked him between the eyes, smashed his safety glasses and gave him a bad cut that looked like a 3rd eyebrow right in the middle of his forehead. 15 stitches.

>>64109064
Speaking of foregrips on handguns.

>>64108315
>>64108511
Since we are talking about space guns - here's an actual space gun that has been into space.

>>64108281 (OP)
i have no idea how you hold this

>>64111173
saw it myself and i wonder if it's missing parts? I don't see how this would cycle. Supposedly a straight pull.

>>64108315
There weren't any russians on the moon, who were they expecting to fight?

>>64111211
russians once they got to the moon...

>>64111182
Yeah, that's just bizarre. I wonder how it works, there's no obvious bolt handle so the trigger must somehow do double-duty?

>>64109064
simply putting your hand under the handguard does nothing for recoil control and that's not how vertical grips work. If he has used an actual vertical grip he probably wouldn't have needed a trip to the hospital.

>>64108281 (OP)
Who up krummin they lauf rn

>>64112037
>simply putting your hand under the handguard does nothing for recoil control
Yes. But you're overlooking the most important factor, which is the bend angle of your elbows. Even if the gun had a proper VFG actually holding it in such a way you could look down the sights while keeping either arm straight enough to take hard recoil is very difficult. Now firing it from the hip with a front grip? That would certainly help.

>>64108940
Fuckin' shockwaves, how do they work?

>>64108940
>point man in the jungle
Why do people think buckshot is actually good for that?

>>don't you know they did it in Vietnam? They had 40mm buckshot, gave shotguns to the Vietnamese, etc.
Yeah. The 40mm buckshot turned out to be terrible so they stopped issuing it, and the only reason they gave shotguns to the South Vietnamese was because they didn't trust them with anything better.

>>64111211
Moon nazis, are you retarded? Everyone knows that's where Hitler's clone and the 5th Reich are settled

>>64108517
That was Russ Hamm down in Florida iirc. Pretty clever idea actually, but probably a bit unsafe for the average user. The guys that used to run these said that you could set a shag carpet on fire with one. When they were eventually banned from competition, it was because of the fire hazard, not radiation concerns.

I wonder if a less hazardous substitute exists.

>>64109346
That was strictly for shooting bears (or superstitious peasants) on return to earth, it would not have functioned well in space. For use IN space the Soviets came up with the laser revolver. It used cartridges that contained a single use flashbulb and capacitor that pumped a ruby rod laser.

>>64112112
Was the 4th Reich the hollow earth one?

>>64109843

Imagine breaking into a house and getting with with 50 rounds of full auto rat shot

>>64113571
> shooting superstitious peasants on return to earth

Gives me an idea for a horror movie about a capsule and crew landing in some sort of cult area and having to survive

>>64111211
Illegal aliens

>>64112017
>>64111182
>>64111173
I think you're supposed to cradle the grip with your right hand, and reach up to pull the trigger in a way that doesn't get in the way of the trigger/bolt reciprocating. Probably quite awkward.

>>64114810
I suspect it works like the switch on the Mondragón rifle. The trigger is also the bolt handle and you hold down the trigger then rack it back and forth to rapidly fire off the entire magazine.

>>64114860
Perhaps you are meant to hold the thing on top with your thumb?

>>64113579
No you're thinking of the 6th Reich, the 4th is the Antartic one lead by Hitler's body double

>post crazy weapons

no one has posted interest rates yet huh? most effective weapon out there

>>64116173
i think you're onto something. Now i wonder why the other parts we see are shaped like that...