barnbwt
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Hah, ha! Yet another fool who thinks 'gas delay' could be simple. It fooled you, me, and even the Germans (and they're really smart about these things). Tuning a gas delay seems to be 'simple' like positioning a rocket ship at a lunar-terran Lagrangian point is 'simple' 
"the clip was made like a double stack Hotchkiss"
The only way, would be to have the strip claws hold rounds both above and below the strip centerline, but I think then you'd have to do a pull-push style of feed, otherwise your 'pusher' will crash into the clip trying to feed the upper row into the chamber. A two-claw style pawl (like the PKM) could snag the rim of the case in the strip, and a separate arm push it down in line with the breech. If the strip were raised/lowered alternately, the claws would pull from the correct elevation. What's more, I suspect the mechanism that advances the strip 1/2 cartridge width each shot could easily perform the up/down motion at the same time; all you have to do is have the top cartridge ride down a ramp, and the strip will bow down when it tries to move inline with the bolt carrier (otherwise, it's slot will be empty and the strip will swing back up)
"Video game guns don't really have to really work.
Real guns really do have to work, and Feed, Fire, & Function Freely"
Bah, humbug. Besides; tell me a Madsen LMG is a more plausible mechanism than the gamer gun described, and yet it's one of the more reliable LMGs of its era.
Last year there was a lively discussion involving many of the more talented gun builders on another forum, attempting to divine how the Fallout Combat Shotgun could possibly work. Silly, but inspirational
TCB
"the clip was made like a double stack Hotchkiss"
The only way, would be to have the strip claws hold rounds both above and below the strip centerline, but I think then you'd have to do a pull-push style of feed, otherwise your 'pusher' will crash into the clip trying to feed the upper row into the chamber. A two-claw style pawl (like the PKM) could snag the rim of the case in the strip, and a separate arm push it down in line with the breech. If the strip were raised/lowered alternately, the claws would pull from the correct elevation. What's more, I suspect the mechanism that advances the strip 1/2 cartridge width each shot could easily perform the up/down motion at the same time; all you have to do is have the top cartridge ride down a ramp, and the strip will bow down when it tries to move inline with the bolt carrier (otherwise, it's slot will be empty and the strip will swing back up)
"Video game guns don't really have to really work.
Real guns really do have to work, and Feed, Fire, & Function Freely"
Bah, humbug.
Besides; tell me a Madsen LMG is a more plausible mechanism than the gamer gun described, and yet it's one of the more reliable LMGs of its era. Last year there was a lively discussion involving many of the more talented gun builders on another forum, attempting to divine how the Fallout Combat Shotgun could possibly work. Silly, but inspirational
TCB
