From:	dghost@****.com dghost@****.com
Subject:	Gas Venting
Date:	Wed, 22 Sep 1999 01:32:31 -0700

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:39:03 -0400 "Angelkiller 404"
<angelkiller404@**********.com> writes:
<SNIP>
> 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.

As I understand it, you don't hear "the CRACK of a rifle" at all unless
you break it over your knee. Instead, what you hear is the supersonic
crack of the bullet. (Some/Most/All?) sniper rifles use *subsonic*
rounds which are significantly quieter. At the extreme range of a sniper
rifle, I doubt you tell where the sniper is by the sound of the shot even
if the rifle is unsilenced ...

As for how the Ranger Arms can have Gas Vent AND a silencer, instead of
having one follow the other (which I doubt works), can you combine the
two? In other words, can the Gas Vent have integral baffles to slow the
gases to subsonic speeds?

--
D. Ghost
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
-Groucho Marx

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