| From: | Angelkiller 404 angelkiller404@**********.com |
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| Subject: | Gas Venting |
| Date: | Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:39:03 -0400 |
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>> Something I'm wondering here. Gas Vent systems and silencers are
>> completely opposite in the way they treat compressed air, right?
The
>> silencer using the compressed air to muffle the shot, and the gas
vent
>> using the air to handle recoil, or something like that? So how the
>> heck can the Ranger Arms sniper rifle have a combined silencer/gas
>> vent-II?
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> Gas Vents direct the gas in a way to stop the weapon "climbing".
>Silencers expand and cool down the gas to prevent the bullet from
going
>hypersonic and producing the "crack" _and_ to alter the sound of a
fired
>shot to make it harder to detect the firing of the weapon.
> With the Ranger Arms SM-3, the gas vent would just be located
>behind the silencer.
>
OK, I'm no firearms expert, but wouldn't that mean that a combined gas
vent/silencer system *is* possible? Or did FASA kinda make an 'oops'
with the rules here? Or is it that the silencer on the Ranger Arms is
less effective than a 'true' silencer? Does a sniper rifle even need
one? My reasoning being that you don't exactly hear the CRACK of a
rifle from 700 meters off and say, "Ah-hah! I heard gunfire!" That
sniper can be anywhere, and at 700 meters, you're a bit far from any
sort of retaliation small arms can offer unless, of course, it's
another sniper rifle.
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