Just add another room for the gun collection, it’s much cheaper.
Since you broached it earlier let me expound.
The unrifled muskets of the brits and Fr at the time could reliably hit a man 8/10 shots at up to 80 yards.
The average colonial rifled musket was accurate to over 300 yards.
This enabled us to accurately engage and decimate enemy ranks at over 3 times their range.
The longest recorded shot with a muzzle loader in combat is over 1000 yards fired by a US sniper during the American revolution.
One shotgun, one box of shells. No modification necessary.
Yepp. I’ve wanted a truck just like that since I was about 8 years old.
One day I’m going to get a donor and build it. I’m not going to use a 22RE though. Plan is to swap in a 3RZ-FE from a 98-04 Tacoma with a small turbo. Maybe 190 horses at the most.
Either that or I’ll go completely retarded and swap in a GM LS V8 of some kind. They actually have full swap kits and the engines fit nicely into the Hilux bay. A bone stock 4.8L from a 99-06 Silverado makes about 290 horses and a little over 300 ft lbs of torque.
There are a lot of people doing that swap now since you’ll not only have a V8 powered truck that weighs less than 3000 pounds but it will still get 30 mpg. The kit includes a full harness for an aftermarket MSD computer and fuel injection. No carburetor to deal with in this swap.
GS’s face this kind of ignorance and prejudice on a daily basis.
Stalin was a bigger mass murderer than the head of the national socialists…
I don’t think that had heard the 8/10 at 80 statistic. Interesting
Is that figure about rifled muskets with roundball or some shaped projectile?
I’d have to look back but I don’t believe they shot any conicles until they finally came around to rifling as without spin they are absolutely impossible to stabilize would would tend to flip end over end.
Round ball as far as I now is all the Brits were using in the BB.
The only other way to stabilize them would be like we do today with shotgun slugs where the slug itself is rifled to produce the spin.
Roundball.
Yeah, I went and looked it up last night, Minne did not go to war until Crimea in the mid 19th century.
If you’ve never done so you’d get a kick out of reading up on the history of rifling.
It actually began in Europe but it was the US that first realized the advantages and took advantage of the tech.
Rifling was essentially the 18th century’s first “force multiplier” as it enabled one of our rifleman to effectively kill three enemy riflemen before they even got into range.
I’m genuinely curious what the next big advancement in firearms will be.
It’s crazy to think about. In just 200 years we’ve went from smoothbore muskets to firearms like the DSR-1 .338 Lapua Magnums.
Optics that do all your calculations for you and cleaner, more stable, smaller propellants.
The firearms and more broadly the self defense industries are nothing if not innovative.
Some things that I have seen in the past couple years are:
Polymer cartridge cases, these will significantly decrease the cost of ammunition
30-45 caliber air rifles that have multi-shot capability, with hunting capable energy levels
Polymer based projectiles for handguns that use shape to ensure effectiveness and lethality
WR is right about optics; imagine small tough optics that integrate ranging, cartridge/firearm specific drop calculation and indication, night vision and thermal vision. I was close to the Army night vision program, “own the night” changed warfare.
The “Airbow”, a rifle like platform that uses air power to shoot arrows at 450FPS. It is changing hunting rules all over the US.
This leaves out 3d plastic printed firearms parts,
near future 3d metal printed parts,
Advanced materials such as high strength ceramics,
I am sure that I am just scratching the surface.
You remind me of one I see comging sooner rather than later which is metal/ceramic composites replacing traditional metal barrels probably sooner rather than later.
Already there are numerous high end manufacturers producing carbon fiber barrels with thin steel sleeves, and at least one I know of that uses some form of an extremely light weight ceramic/epoxy resin over steel inside of a paper thin titanium or aluminum tube.
They have their process guarded secretly and protected by patent but somehow their inner fill is able to absorb and disperse heat such that it’s almost impossible to overheat a barrel on bolt action rifles no matter how hard you run them.
The only downside is that their finished barrels while still fairly light are the diameter of a BB bat.
As for the polymer cases, PMC actually pioneered them in the seventies with their line of shotgun shells, for some reason it died out possibly due to the spikes in oil prices. Not sure but they were the best shotgun rounds I ever shot. With the advances in polymers no doubt we’ll see them again.
More interesting to me are the electronically fired “rounds” that are completely expended upon firing, no brass at all but require a whole new level of tech when it comes to the design and operation of the chamber and firing mechanisms. Put a mono in front of the charge and you have the greenest ammunition ever produced.
Well they are working on smart artillery shells. I’m assuming one day the tech will miniaturize enough for smart bullets.
The saying “the easiest way to avoid being shot is to avoid the gun being aimed at you” would change drastically lol.
Random thought on AI ammo: I predict that the first lawsuits claiming that AI bullets have been programmed to kill black people because of bias introduced by gun range shooting targets or somesuch will be all over the news someday.
If the ammunition manufacturers are smart they’ll change over to white figures against a green background for testing and save themselves a lot of legal problems.
It’s getting so ridiculous that many public ranges won’t even allow you to use any form of silhouette targets at all.
I just want to shoot Osama Bin Laden with my musket. Why is that against the rules?
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