And the bunnies keep on hopping...

[Duane Peters]

blackaeronaut wrote:

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Duane Peters wrote:

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blackaeronaut wrote:

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Colt Government? *looks it up* Holy spazz! A little thing like her with a beast like that? Skuld's sake, man! Start her off with a nice little
nine-mil! Anything but .45 ACP!


Imagery for the curious: http://home.comcast.net/~...ovt_Left_Slim_Grips2.jpg

As someone who uses both, if I didn't have a .22 to teach someone to shoot with, I'd much rather try to teach someone to shoot a .45
than a 9mm. Recoil on the .45 is slower and much less difficult to control than the sharp, quick impulse of the 9mm, at least for me.

In that case, then I'd probably start out Yukari and the rest of the girls with a Calico M110 Pistol. This is from a practical standpoint:
Calicos are known for handling recoil capably due to their design characteristics. Also, the M110 Pistol is chambered for .22 LR, so it won't send poor
Yukari flying. From there, we can graduate to the M950, the M110's 9mm cousin, so Yukari can get a feel for the heavier ammo before finally upgrading to
Calico's planned-on .40 chambered weapons.




I'm choosing Calico Pistols for several reasons. For one, there is the possibility of dealing with hostiles in space. All is not wine and roses up there,
even after the primary boskonian threat has been dealt with. Also, as I mentioned before, the Calicos are good at managing recoil. Finally, more gun -
Calicos have very large magazine capacities: 50 or 100 round mags. And we all know that the person that wins a gun fight is usually the one with more ammo
(given a roughly equal proficiency in marksmanship).

Duane Peters wrote:

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Bob Schroeck wrote:

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It also extrudes various extensions and shapes appropriate to the kind of camouflage, in order to break up the silhouette of whatever's
being painted.

And when painted on walls, it makes doors or tunnel entrances, as appropriate.

I like the idea of this. We should include it in everybody's emergency kits. What are the quirks, or should this be relatively quirk free?

Oops. I made a mistake; I left out one word in my sentence. (I would have thought Bob would spot the reference, but...) The sentence should read
"And when painted on walls, it makes *fake* doors or tunnel entrances, as appropriate."

On the Calicos: Bad idea for spaceborne use, unless they're 'waved. They're mostly plastic, you see, including the *entire* outer shell of the
magazine. Too much exposure to vacuum and cold cycling, and they'll *shatter*. Also, 100 rounds of .22, unless you're talking *immensely* well-trained
marksmen, is an invitation to a funeral. If you really want to use a .22 gun, I'd suggest the American 180: http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg62-e.htm. I've seen a video (not available on the net more's the pity,) where
they used one of these to saw a Volkswagen in half. Really, though, the .22 LR is a *lousy* round for this purpose; if you really want them armed with
small-caliber weapons, even the .32 used in the Skorpion machine pistol is much better. The only thing I would use a .22 rifle/pistol for, other than just
target shooting and squirrel hunting, is very basic marksmanship training, for people who haven't *ever* fired a weapon before.

Edited to add: Found this clip on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/wa...52NQ&feature=related Fun gun to play with...