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Edited by LearnThis:
1/16/2015 5:16:22 PM
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How do Hand Cannons work?
Has anyone else ever looked at the hand cannons and wondered how they fire a bullet and where the bullet comes from? I certainly have. If you look at the image that I provided you can see that the chamber does not line up with the barrel, or it does not seem to at least. This is something that has bothered me for a while now about the hand cannons (there are other hand cannons that have this problem). Now, on this forum there are plenty of intelligent people and other people that are just opinionated, either or I would enjoy to read all the different reasons that people can come up with on how the hand cannon works through this conundrum.
Start your explanations, but please be nice.
Edit: A few people have made comments about it being a bottom load and that being possible. That was never the problem here. The problem I have had with a few of the designs is why the cylinder and chamber do not seem to line up. Some people have said they do while others have agreed and said they do not. Since they do not line up (that is how I see it), I asked for answers. I expected or at least hoped for some out there science answers.
Edit: More comments about why do I care... Why do you post here then? Anyways, I am all up for believing in technology that I cannot explain because of aliens or SCIENCE or whatever, but when the barrel and cylinder are at weird angles or as @Teuton67 noticed, certain mechanics that we CAN explain do not seem to workout on some weapon skins. THAT is when I care and ask. Besides, if you do not like my question then do not answer it and move on. You do not need to type in rude words just because you hide behind the computer. Be nice.
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12 RepliesActually in the future ammunition is transmatted into the chamber and then shot out railgun-like at 90% of the speed of light. That's why all shots (other than rockets) appear to instantly connect with their target. The physical aesthetic of a cartridge and barrel was kept as purely cosmetic details. So while technically the ammo pack is in the cartridge you replace on reload, it doesn't have any physical connection to the firing chamber. And both are just holdovers from a history nearly forgotten. Since there was no actual engineering reason to have the barrel line up with the magazine, that part has been lost over the ages. Now rockets are a bit special. They're constructed to explode and firing them railgun style results in far too many explosions in chamber. So they are still propelled by chemical means when splash damage is required. Since they're that much more complex than dumb slugs, you can carry less in the transmat cartridge. All ammo works on principles similar to synth packs. That's why you can use the same generic archetypes (primary, special, heavy) for multiple different specific weapons. All the interesting stuff is in the gun. The ammo pack is just the go juice. Literally. The ammo packs are made of liquid nanomaterials.
