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[Tack]

Wikipedia says it took about twenty-twenty five seconds to load a musket, if done by a very experienced person.

I stand extremely corrected.


However, with a MODERN rifle.

[Nikov]

I wasn't even going to use a modern rifle. I was going to use a 1898 design just to be sporting.

[MaximumZero]

Guns are for people who can't punch hard enough. Or from a long enough distance.

[Tack]

Yes, yes. Guns over crossbows, crossbows over bows.
Blah.

Not that any of them are going to be useful on a deserted, desert, or Modified-physics island.

[Blargityblarg]

Wasn't there something called the Mad Minute, which was basically the 1800s version of full auto, i.e. going apeshit in order to fire a whopping either 10 or 6 shots (I forget which) in sixty seconds?

[Heron TSG]

So it was like the 1800's version of the Metal Storm guns, only firing much less than a million rounds per minute.

[Tack]

No. From what I can remember...

*click link*

And indeed I'm correct in remembering- the metalstorm is like a modern organ-gun.


the 'Mad Minute' is what a very experienced person can do in a minute with a flintlock rifle.
I think.

[Nikov]

A Mad Minute is a form of final defensive fire used by infantry platoons. Each soldier fires his weapon on full automatic into his designated kill zones, with machine guns frequently sweeping over friendly positions. It is basically a last-ditch but controlled attempt to clear the platoon's position of the enemy by killing anyone outside of a foxhole.

[Tack]

In the 1800's?

[Blargityblarg]

full auto

In the 1800's?

Not full auto, just as fast as they fuggin' can. No amount of manliness turns a bolt-action gun into a full-auto capable one.

Unless the testosterone somehow froze in the shape of the necessary pa-
No, I've sent a thread down that path already.

Also, I have shares in Metal Storm.

[Tack]

I choose Blargityblarg.

He's a sensible investor.

[Armok]

Now someone needs to carve a gun out if crystallized testosterone and engrave pictures of muscles screaming and "Alternian fine art" on it.

[Nikov]

When did I say it was done in the 1800's.

[Blargityblarg]

So it's a modern-day thing as well?

[Tack]

Yeah. I'm going to go with MaximumZero and I.

AXEMEN WARRIORS!

Maybe Jackrabbit too. He's a little tall, but I'm sure he wouldn't run if a Kodiak bear were to be mauling either of us.


Hella Workerdrone.
I want to see what he could do to a shark. They've got three rows of fucking teeth.