And the bunnies keep on hopping...

[Black Aeronaut]

Duane Peters wrote:

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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.

Ah yes. So some poor sap can go "SPLAT!" (^_^) I like it.

Of course, the Calicos would be... enhanced. ATM, IRL, the company is in receivership (or at least that's the word going around on their site's
message boards). So, I don't think that it would be farfetched to say that maybe some enterprising fen (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) got ahold of the casts,
dies, and whatnot, and started cranking out wave-enhanced hard-tech Calicos. Also, the .22 LR is just training wheels, as will be the 9mm cartridge.
Calico's been working on models chambered for .40 cal, but nothing's come of it for a while. Still, nothing too dificult for an enterprising fen to
crank out as long as they had the right tools, eh?

I couldn't access the link because my ISP here on the Navy Base doesn't like .ru sites. Wonder why? At anyrate, a Fen-edition Calico pistol
chambered for .40 (or something with a little more punch, maybe?) with two 50 rnd mags seems like a good tradeoff for fire-power-to-weight. Also accurate as
all hell - lot of people talking about how they use these pistols to drill targets like you wouldn't believe. I can do no better than what this person
said on the Calico forums about his Liberty III Pistol:

So I took my Liberty III pistol to the range today to unwind and let out some stress. I was dubious. I dropped about a grand so I
could get this gun. Mine was built in 1994 with the older style components in it but was in unfired condition when I bought it. I shot cheapo American Eagle
FMJ ammo through it - can't remember the grain weight but most of the 9mm target loads are relatively similar. I first put a target out at 7 yards and
blew it to kingdom come, somewhat rapid fire. It is absolutely difficult to take the little pistol (more of a carbine without a stock than anything)
seriously! It cracks up everybody who sees it.




I shot 2 flawless magazines through it at 7 and 10 yards, and finally gained some respect for the gun's nail driver accuracy. I've never seen a
weapon of this type (submachine pistol except mine isn't class III obviously) be this accurate, even in a semi auto mode. It's uncanny.




I was shooting sillhouettes roughly half size of a man - approximately the size of an NRA B34-RC target. I put the target all the way out at the little
indoor range I was shooting at - 15 yards. Not a very impressive difference. And really concentrating and squeezing off shots, placed a group probably
smaller than 1 inch inside the head. The adjustable sights are incredible, the balance is very nice, and the gun handles surprisingly quickly.

Bonus points for the cognitive disconnect the gun, all by itself, causes. Reviews like this one are fairly typical. The only gripes are about
how long it takes to reload the mags, but that's where Calico's speed loader comes in handy.