Gun advice for a writer who doesn't own guns

[straightshooter]

Rather than rely on vicarious acquisition of firearms knowledge join a rifle club.
You are starting from a zero practical understanding of firearms and are in no position to discern "s4!t from clay" as may often be offered to a naive poster such as yourself on an anonymous forum by marginally less naive posters.
On the other hand, since your intention is to author a fantasy novel then any additional fantasy, boast and braggadocio may not necessarily be out of place.

[bladeracer]

And this is precisely why i think many stories are not 100% factually accurate regards to guns. REPLY TO WM.T post

If the guy uses black powder, as smokeless is not available in olden times, the speeds will be very low... and even lower with a lead bullet. Plus the barrel will gey dirty so he will need to clean the barrel after every shot either lead or powder fowling. From a 308, speeds are probably around 1500fps, which will be good to take an animal or your armor plates at around 100-200m, no way 1000m.

The problem is that he will need lot of equipment and need to learn lots of skills to make these bullets, stuff that might not be readily available. He can't walk to the shops and get some federal large rifle primers, or a lee lead melter, (yes he might be able to goto a blacksmith). But the bigger problem is there is no internet and how many shooters as a percentage now have knowledge to build lead projectiles and mix up black powder and primer compound.

Also you assumption is that he knew he was going to fantasy lands and thus he is carrying 400 bullets to start up. You guys hunt, tell me how many bullets you take with you on a trip, even varminting you are probably take 100max.

Sorry to burst everyones bubble, but some liberties will need to be taken with the equipment.or he will spend most of the first 2/3 months making equipment. Just pretend he had unlimited supply of modern match bullets.

I don't take any extra bullets when I go out, the ones in the cartridges are generally enough I find.
We're trying to educate somebody on the nomenclature so he can write accurately and you are referring to cartridges as "bullets" and bullets as "projectiles"?

When I was in primary school I played a bit with casting lead objects simply by carving them into wood, you could probably cast acceptable bullets the same way in a pinch. I don't know how commonly available lead was in medieval times, but with magic you could generate plenty of match-grade modern ammunition as required.

I don't think it's too big a stretch to allow an enthiast to have at least some understanding of what constitutes blackpowder and priming compounds, enough to allow him to experiment with at least. Of course, it would be a whole lot smarter to throw the firearms away, magic is far more efficient and effective.

[bigrich]

Lots of interesting information and advice with regards to this topic. It’s a interesting one, reminds me of the old book and black and white movie, “a Connecticut yankee in King Arthur’s court” . That’s one for the younger fellas to google, and I don’t reckon too many grey hairs would remember that one either. Most ideas aren’t new, but I’ll be interested to see how tcs’s book turns out.

[Sergeant Hartman]

i was just checking if others actually read my posts and yes confuse ppl.

[knowsnothin]

And make sure the protagonist moans about the rubbish firearm licensing arrangements in his fantasyland.
and his inability to use a moderator to protect his hearing because fantasyland politicians think there are more votes in 'not making guns more dangerous' than actually caring about their constituents health and safety.
I feel these are important themes that have yet to be explored.

[bigrich]

i was just checking if others actually read my posts and yes confuse ppl.

Don’t worry ziad mate, I always read your posts. And yes, they confuse me at times

Your autocorrect works better than the nazi “enigma “ code machine

[pomemax]

I think this has already been done quite a few times.
starting with a guy called Thor who when he threw his hammer down the bad guys dies but the hammer is right there in Thors hand and if you think about it a revolver looks a bit like a hammer

[mikejay]

A piece of whatever threw him back in time broke off and came with him, he jerry rigs it to the magazine with wire and whatnot. The character get infinite ammo because it keeps cycling in the same rounds from the past. Ammo problem solved.

[mikejay]

Oh and since the character isn't really a shooter, have the gun fitted with a TrackingPoint scope, turns anyone into a sniper.

[mikejay]

Actually since the story involves time travel, you're dealing with fantasy anyway so something like this would be more appropriate



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyhR1THflUU

[Sergeant Hartman]

Mate this is a serious topic.

I do think a pistol that shots long range smart bullets, after hitting the target they return back, like a boomerang.... keeping the Australian link alive

That way you need a bullet resizer and a bullet pointer.

Btw you can call it projectile or whatever

[mikejay]

what would you call such a story? A Melbourne Mexican in Govenor Arthur's Colony?