[MH] Ten bore Colt 'pistol'

[Luke Bunyip]

Ian MacCallum, of Forgotten Weapons fame, has just posted a video on a five round ten bore 'revolver'. Sure enough, down in the comments section there was discussion of it's utility vs werewolves, vampires, werelephants, and vampire elephants.

Naturally, I thought of you gentlefolk.
Enjoy.

[Raekai]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Ian MacCallum, of Forgotten Weapons fame, has just posted a video on a five round ten bore 'revolver'. Sure enough, down in the comments section there was discussion of it's utility vs werewolves, vampires, werelephants, and vampire elephants.

Naturally, I thought of you gentlefolk.
Enjoy.

Oh, hey, it's Gun Jesus! Now, I'll just wait around for someone with much more knowledge and sensibility to stat this thing because I definitely want to find a way to use it!

[Mysterious Dark Lord v3.2]

(watches video ...)

I think the LeMat has been supplanted in my heart as the Revolver of my Dreams.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Raekai

Oh, hey, it's Gun Jesus! Now, I'll just wait around for someone with much more knowledge and sensibility to stat this thing because I definitely want to find a way to use it!

Ten "bore" means it was made for musket balls that massed 1/10 of pound (probably a Troy pound). This is the same as a slug for a ten "gauge" shotgun.

Such shotguns do 2D-1 P or 1D+2 P in Gurps depending on the source. A slug does 4x that in P++. So 22 to 24 damage translated to dice as you like. Call it 6D+1P++ or a little more.

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Ten "bore" means it was made for musket balls that massed 1/10 of pound (probably a Troy pound). This is the same as a slug for a ten "gauge" shotgun.

Such shotguns do 2D-1 P or 1D+2 P in Gurps depending on the source. A slug does 4x that in P++. So 22 to 24 damage translated to dice as you like. Call it 6D+1P++ or a little more.

The weapon in question is indeed a sawed-off shotgun. I don’t know if the Colt 1855 10-gauge Revolving Shotgun is statted up anywhere for GURPS, but if it is you can probably just use the sawed-off guidelines from HT/TS to modify it down to size.

[Hide]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Ten "bore" means it was made for musket balls that massed 1/10 of pound (probably a Troy pound). This is the same as a slug for a ten "gauge" shotgun.

Such shotguns do 2D-1 P or 1D+2 P in Gurps depending on the source. A slug does 4x that in P++. So 22 to 24 damage translated to dice as you like. Call it 6D+1P++ or a little more.

So, is this gun using bullets or pellets or slugs? And is 2D-1 the damage this weapon would deal per shot (up to five shots)?

[adm]

Originally Posted by Hide

So, is this gun using bullets or pellets or slugs? And is 2D-1 the damage this weapon would deal per shot (up to five shots)?

Being a black powder muzzle loader, whatever you want to dump in. Although some of the stats will very.

[Raekai]

Originally Posted by Varyon

The weapon in question is indeed a sawed-off shotgun. I don’t know if the Colt 1855 10-gauge Revolving Shotgun is statted up anywhere for GURPS, but if it is you can probably just use the sawed-off guidelines from HT/TS to modify it down to size.

If it's not listed somewhere, it should be. It'd have to be against GURPS code to pass over something that sounds so cool. So far, I haven't found anything in the books that I have access to.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Varyon

I don’t know if the Colt 1855 10-gauge Revolving Shotgun is statted up anywhere for GURPS,

I don't believe it is. The Colt 1855 5 shot revolving shotgun on p. 104 of Huigh Tech is in 20 G and not 10. Even in the slightly expanded text of Adventure Guns no 10 gauge variant is mentioned.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Hide

So, is this gun using bullets or pellets or slugs? And is 2D-1 the damage this weapon would deal per shot (up to five shots)?

As the other poster imp;lied the gun would fire what you loaded it with. 2D-1 would be the damage for a single pellet of buckshot. You would resolve how many pellets hit using the shotgun rules as normal. If you loaded it witha single ball you would get the higher damge I determined.