01-09-2020, 08:16 AM | #21 | |||
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
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One thing that may need answered - what are the weapons being used for? I'm assuming they aren't for any sort of warfare outside of small-scale skirmishes (otherwise the nations in question would be well-served building up the facilities to produce higher-TL weaponry); is this something of a Wild West/Frontier situation? Are weapons used primarily for hunting, formal duels, home defense, or keeping/driving bandit gangs out of town (or being a bandit)? I suspect that's going to greatly impact what accessories are the most worthwhile. FWIW, I've been mostly thinking in terms of hunting and the occasional small-scale skirmish (which probably fits the bandit situation above).
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01-09-2020, 03:29 PM | #22 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
Here’s something to consider. Scopes with bullet drop markings or trajectory computers are going to be extremely hard to use with a muzzleloader. Without a chronograph to measure your velocity, i don’t know how you would calculate your bullet drop accurately. A trajectory computer needs to know exactly what ammunition you are using: bullet weight, velocity, and aerodynamics. There’s a vast difference between TL 7-8 bullets and round shot or Minie balls. The values would have to calculated and programmed by the supplier.
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01-09-2020, 03:54 PM | #23 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
Here's a fun one:
High tech supplier provides a special paint and a laser sight with integrated computer. Apply special paint to concave side of Minne ball. Load, aim, shoot. On board computer on laser sight tracks the shot and monitors if it is on target. If it isn't, it fires a secondary IR laser into the paint (that is tuned to be resistant to black powder explosions but very sensitive to this particular bandwidth of IR) and steers it back on course. If you are sneaky you can have the high tech laser stuff as a separate package and fire the bullet from a separate location. If you are really sneaky you don't have to tell the person firing the gun what is happening. Sounds like a classic 'hunting accident' mystery set up. Now this is clearly a weapon but if you ship in the lasers, computer, software and paint in separately you can probably get a few in. Other problem is that this is complex and one off enough to be ruinously expensive to locals, so only rich bastards, their high end thugs, and off worlders will be able to afford it. |
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What I don't want to do is to depict a combination that will be blatantly just dumb to anyone who knows a bit about guns, such as mounting on a pistol a sight that is only useful for very-long-range shots with highly uniform ammunition, or a sight that is good for a rapid second shot on a single-shot weapon.
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01-09-2020, 05:08 PM | #26 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
Note that reflex sights are relatively tall and somewhat bulky for a pistol sight, so a simple open notch sight might be preferred just because it's smaller, lighter, and doesn't get caught up on the holster and on clothing. They're a small and light sight for a rifle, though.
For example: https://image.sportsmansguide.com/ad...23737m2_ts.jpg (note that this pistol has a rail, but it's not the Picatinny Rail that most people use today).
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01-09-2020, 06:50 PM | #28 |
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Re: High/ultra tech sights/accessories on muzzle-loaders
One issue with any ultra-tech sights used with muzzle loaders is the fact that the black powder that is left over after the gun fires is quite dirty. In addition, anything attached to the barrel or stock will get in the way of reloading, which should increase time. I would only allow the bonuses to apply for the first shot of a conflict and only allow them to apply again after the gun is cleaned, and I would increase the reload time by 10% per extra attachment.
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Fusion Torch reaction drives, an FTL drive, and an explosive device that turns a planet's entire atmosphere into a huge fusion bomb.
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