08-23-2016, 02:55 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Homing Shotgun
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Firing 8 projectiles .33" across that have miniaturized course-correcting features seems pointless. Why not fire one projectile with much better course correction? Recently, a .50 caliber projectile was successfully tested that can change direction once. A shotgun load of three correct-once flechettes would be vastly more technically feasible and effective than homing buckshot. |
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08-23-2016, 03:33 PM | #12 | |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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08-23-2016, 06:55 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Re: Homing Shotgun
A homing shotgun loaded with less lethal payload (Like pepperspray paintball, or indellible ink) would be a useful if niche riot weapon, you could target the ringleaders and blast away without shooting up a mob indiscriminately.
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08-23-2016, 08:07 PM | #14 | |
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Location: Southeast NC
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I interpreted what we saw in the linked video not as homing pellets, but as a sight that recognizes a humanoid silhouette and adjusts ballistics (adaptive choke? spin for a curve ball effect?) to maximize pattern on target.
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08-23-2016, 08:42 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: Homing Shotgun
With the right loading in the right situation its pretty good. It was, reportedly, quite effective in Vietnam where there was very little body armor worn and the ranges were close. Today if you use high volume shot load (18 for a 00 buck or 35 for #4 shot, those get a good ROF bonus) and if you use the new tungsten or hevi shot pellets -- you're looking at 1,300 fps, and effective ranges out 60-70 yards. (These are the Dead Coyote brand rounds, I believe.) On top of that, you've got the new gator shot spreader, an improved version of the old duckbill, detailed in Seals in Vietnam. The gator gets the duckbill bonus to hit, and it acts as a compensator and a breaching muzzle extension. On a magazine- or drum-fed shotgun, that's a pretty devastating CQB weapon. I'd still take an HK416, though.
Oh, and here's the real tungsten spheres, nearly twice the weight of lead: http://www.tungstenspheres.com/tungsten_spheres.html |
08-23-2016, 09:54 PM | #16 |
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08-24-2016, 08:32 AM | #17 | |
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08-24-2016, 02:09 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Oregon
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Re: Homing Shotgun
Sounds cool. Would that be treated just as a Targeting Computer (+1 or +2 to skill)? It might instead (or also) give a bonus to the number of pellets that hit (1.5 hits per MoS instead of just 1).
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call of duty, homing, sci-fi, shotgun, ths |
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