Nightcrawler
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To kill time between studying for my exams, I've been known to think up gun designs.
Being a science fiction buff of sorts, I find it enjoyable to try to cook up "futuristic" gun designs. They should, of course, look cool, but also look functional and realistic. In a lot of SciFi you see on TV, you see things like pistols without sights or trigger loops, rifles without stocks, etc.
Caseless seems futursitic, so designing caseless guns is fun. Not REALLY designing the guts of the weapon, mind you, but just the look.
'Cause let's face it, the HK G11 looks stupid. It's a box with a pistol grip and scope. Functional, yes, cool, NO. (On the plus side, it's easy to draw.)
One thing I'm really fuzzy on...for the life of me I can't design a caseless pistol. I mean, I can't figure out how a caseless pistol would work where it'd be any different in operation than a regular one. I mean, you insert the magazine, and then what? there's got to be some method of getting the round from the mag to the chamber. A pistol would be too small to use the wheel-type mechanism the G11 rifle used. (Return of the wheel lock??)
Caseless rifles are easier to cook up. You can make them bullpups without having to worry abou those ejection problems. Clearing? My idea is that you simply remove the magazine, charge the weapon, and the chambered round would fall out of the magazine well. It would be a very different manual of arms than what we have today, but then, the manual of arms in 1961 was a lot different than it was in 1861, too.
I think improved optics are future-ly, too. Your basic short ranged carbine (the descendent of all of the M4s, AKSUs, and various submachine guns used for close quarters battle today) would need only a holographic dot sight, like a Trijicon.
Your longer ranged battle rifle could use that and a low magnification, wide-objective battle-scope. Your marksman's rifle would want the computerized targeting scope, I think, with such neat features as night vision, thermal vision, and variable zoom/auto-focus. It could even double as a video camera (hey, it's the future, they've micronized stuff).
More later, maybe. Just the ramblings of a geeky college student whose brain is burned out from studying.
*grumble grumble* Stupid statistics. I've got your Sommer's D right here... *grumble grumble*
Being a science fiction buff of sorts, I find it enjoyable to try to cook up "futuristic" gun designs. They should, of course, look cool, but also look functional and realistic. In a lot of SciFi you see on TV, you see things like pistols without sights or trigger loops, rifles without stocks, etc.
Caseless seems futursitic, so designing caseless guns is fun. Not REALLY designing the guts of the weapon, mind you, but just the look.
'Cause let's face it, the HK G11 looks stupid. It's a box with a pistol grip and scope. Functional, yes, cool, NO. (On the plus side, it's easy to draw.)
One thing I'm really fuzzy on...for the life of me I can't design a caseless pistol. I mean, I can't figure out how a caseless pistol would work where it'd be any different in operation than a regular one. I mean, you insert the magazine, and then what? there's got to be some method of getting the round from the mag to the chamber. A pistol would be too small to use the wheel-type mechanism the G11 rifle used. (Return of the wheel lock??)
Caseless rifles are easier to cook up. You can make them bullpups without having to worry abou those ejection problems. Clearing? My idea is that you simply remove the magazine, charge the weapon, and the chambered round would fall out of the magazine well. It would be a very different manual of arms than what we have today, but then, the manual of arms in 1961 was a lot different than it was in 1861, too.
I think improved optics are future-ly, too. Your basic short ranged carbine (the descendent of all of the M4s, AKSUs, and various submachine guns used for close quarters battle today) would need only a holographic dot sight, like a Trijicon.
Your longer ranged battle rifle could use that and a low magnification, wide-objective battle-scope. Your marksman's rifle would want the computerized targeting scope, I think, with such neat features as night vision, thermal vision, and variable zoom/auto-focus. It could even double as a video camera (hey, it's the future, they've micronized stuff).
More later, maybe. Just the ramblings of a geeky college student whose brain is burned out from studying.
*grumble grumble* Stupid statistics. I've got your Sommer's D right here... *grumble grumble*
for a cmpact UZI-type submachine gun. I had it on paper, and one day i maybe will try to patent it - just for fun 
