From:	Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject:	Re: Re Assault Cannons
Date:	Tue, 3 Dec 1996 00:08:32 +0000

Sascha wrote,

> > Remember, until it clears the muzzle, the shot is being pushed along by
> > a felt or plastic wad: it doesn't go down the barrel as a cloud of steel
> > spheres. So, no reason you couldn't use shot rounds with a gas vent.
> I didn't realize that. Thanks for pointing it out to me (should have thought
> of it myself :-( ).

Nice, but it shouldn't work any more than a silencer on a shotgun.
The gas vent by nature has openings in a direction other that the end
of the barrel. Shot can and will get caught up in it, eventually
destroying the gas vent.


--Droopy
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