From:	ArcLight <arclight@**************.COM>
Subject:	Re: armor
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:21:59 +0100

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shadowrun Discussion On Behalf Of Gurth
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 11:31 AM
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: armor
>
>
> According to Micheal Feeney, at 14:48 on 7 Feb 99, the word on
> the street was...
>
> > Pysics type folk? Gun folk? WOULD a pillow be of any use as
> a sort of one
> > shot silencer??
>
> Not sure. An empty plastic bottle (say, a 1 l coke bottle) will work, but
> I have a feeling a pillow won't do a very good job at being a sound
> suppresser. The reason I say this is because a suppresser works by
> allowing the escaping muzzle gases to expand to a limited degree -- the
> noise a gunshot makes is because the gases "locked up" in the barrel can
> suddenly expand; by using a "chamber" in front of the barrel (like the
> empty coke bottle), they can expand a bit, but not too much, and
> then flow
> away into the atmosphere with a lot less noise. I have trouble seeing a
> pillow perform this function...

As we (actually you...) speak about silencers: does anybody use
some kinda Houserule that you have to shoot with sub-sonic ammunition
for effectively use a silencer?
Normal ammo has a characteristic crack when the projectile gets
over 300 m/sec...

ArcLight
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