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Galvatron:
Its a good point, I suppose just being around for questions is jsut as good

I think for the moment ill just offer my assitance to anyone that needs it.

trboturtle:
I have several books on firearms which I refer to when I need to.

Craig

Paynesgrey:

--- Quote from: CenturionsofRome on December 06, 2012, 08:46:08 PM ---I have a character who uses a Berretta 92F alot, however the gun is excceedingly old and occasioinally breaks due to age. Note: the character only has access to ammo that is subsonic, though just barely. What would be the first things to go in a gun that is rated for several tens of thousands of rounds before failure?

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Galvatron's pretty much got wear covered.  Springs are a favorite, and any contact points between moving parts, such as the slide.  As for barrels, it'll depend on what loads your're using.  Soft stuff, say un-jacketed rounds will cause fouling, but proper care makes that not so much of an issue.  But if you're using steel-jacketed rounds, you'll cause a great deal more wear.  Cheap, steel cartridges will do the same.

As for how long ammo lasts, it really depends on how it was made, how it was stored.  Modern powder, stored cool and dry?  It'll last for ages.  (The primers are where your mileage will really vary.)  So ammo buried in sealed cans, wrapped in plastic you can get away with your letting your  characters use.  But ammo they pick out of the pockets of the skeleton buried under the old oak tree or in a sub-basement drain?  That should be a no-go.

Compass Rose:
Great idea here.  Shoot M-16s, GAUs, and S&W combat specials (.38) while in the USAF. Military has since gone to .45s for the greater stopping power, but so long as it is cleaned as needed the old .38s were pretty sturdy weapons. Reverse true with M-16s, which we said "were made by Mattel" because of all the plastic parts. The GAUs were basically M-15s with metal telescoping stocks, designed for K-9 troops or folks getting in and out of vehicles a lot. As a security police officer I used GAUs a lot. With the metal stock, they could in emergencies used as a club, especially in situations where there was risk of the slugs going thru walls and hitting people not involved in various situations. The 16s had great stopping and penetration power for the most part, but our 16s jammed up on a regular basis while out on the firing line, even when recently cleaned. For a while we officers were allowed to carry both S&W and either 16s/GAUs when on duty, the rifle for when we were in support of security for nuclear weapons and warbirds, the .38s when working the law enforcement side of the house.

Also fired 40mm weapons and m60 machine guns enough to be able to use one if needed, but not enough to be really familiar with them. Except to say the old m60s were big enough and heavy enough that only really strong people (mostly guys) could actually carry them around and shoot them at the same time, mostly as a suppression weapon as you can't aim at all well under those circumstances. If I was to shoot one, i'd want to be flat on the ground behind it, on the side away from the brass eject 'chute.' 40 mike mikes on the other hand are pretty light, are usually mounted underneath a M16 (well, they were in the USAF at the time I was in). Easy to fire, but you can't really aim it real well.

Main problem with most weapons as used in fiction is that the majority of them really need to be kept clean. Some of the old Soviet AKs could keep on shooting even under grungy conditions, which is why, even while they are a relatively old design, there are so many of them, as well as knock offs of the design, out there and in use...plus they could use many types of ammo as well. Made them a big favorite of insurgent / guerilla forces all over the world.

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