More excitement! The sidearm of the UNA soldiers has generated some interest in the past, so here’s more details for the people. It is, in fact, the Mach Saber .75 O/U pistol, manufactured by Mach Arms in the ol’ U.S.A.
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Now that’s a Hand Cannon we can be proud of. 🙂
Hah! I have to wonder what the recoil on a .75 magnum would be in real life. A .44 is pretty serious in itself! It’s even a bigger round than they use in their miniguns.
Oddly enough, the new Smith & Wesson .500 Magnums are designed to give you less recoil than the old .44s. A similar design might make the .75 survivable. BTW, you misspelled “hold” in the part that says “the cylinder can old only six rounds”. 🙂
I know, I’m noticing a bunch of typos. I’ll fix them shortly.
Been a fan of revolers ever since my days of CIT security work. Prefered them over a semiautomatic pistol. Never worried about the small number of rounds. Six is enough for self-defence. Never had to use or even draw it. I’m glad I’m no longer in this line of work.
The LAPD? I guess they got some pretty tough skin-jobs to take care of there, eh? ^^
Well, when you’re a goddamn one-man slaughterhouse, you need to be well armed! 😀
Am very certain someone will make a replica of this in short order
I’d welcome it! Would love to see that!
This gun has me so hard.
Uh… Far out, man.
I call it “Vera”. 😉
I found this webcomic through the OGRE forums, and gobbled it up in one sitting. More please! Fantastic story, I just love it!
Wow man, thanks! I’m glad you dig it! All the Ogre people have been a huge support to the comic throughout!
You know at one point I was going to do an Ogre overlay using 6-Commando graphics. Maybe I should revisit that idea!
Pretty cool, but…
Year in service: 18979?
I’m guessing a UNA clerk somewhere mistyped that, or this calendar system has a quirk I was not expecting. 😉
Surf Wisely
Yeah, I corrected that and a number of other typos. It was 1979, not sometime in the reign of the Padishah Emperors.
Well, the spice must flow… as long as it’s not pumpkin spice. #pumpkinspicebacklash #spitethespice #diepumpkinspice
That gun (superficially) looks a lot like Rick Deckard’s PKD Blaster (from the 1982 movie Blade Runner). http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/%28Blade_Runner%29_-_LAPD_2019_Blaster
Comparing the two I notice that the Mach Saber sem to be a more practical gun (if the recoil is manageable).
It’s a definite homage to the Pflage-Katsumata D Police Special – that’s not a coincidence. It’s one of the most famous pieces of prop work in film, and one of my favorite movies, and if it can take down a Replicant, I figured something similar was in order to give the UNA a fighting chance against powered armor. I mean, aside from their OWN, superior suits of powered armor. 😉
This is a pistol cartridge which throws a projectile which is both larger diameter (.75′ vs .72′) and possibly as much as 3x heavier* than a 12ga slug.
*Lightest commercially available slug is around 350 grains, while the standard .500S&W loadings run from 350-500 grains. Buffalo Bore loads a 700gr projo for hunting dangerous game. A .75-cal weapon which is built around penetration of hard armor or barricades would probably be loaded with something in the 600-900 grain range, or possibly a purpose-built AP like the Russian “light .50” revolvers and suppressed rifles.
Any way you loaad this thing, it’s gonna have the recoil of a sawn-off 12ga shotgun firing heavyweight, high-velocity slugs. I cannot imagine firing it with one hand, or with anything other than perfect technique and balance. Jezis Marija…
.75 caliber is a bit much, like well into SPESS MEHREENS!! territory, but OK, I like it. Just so long as I don’t have to shoot one in real life. Makes sense to have an under-slung in a world with powered armor. Also, typo, last para, first sentence: “success”.
Oy vey, another typo. “Don’t worry, Katrinka Fix.”
A .75 Caliber is crazy but crazy guns exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMkiDguYtGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLV2ji61arE
A .75 would have to be cut down to fit but it’s only real world impractical, not totally impossible.
I still wonder how to speed-load a top-break revolver…
It’s all in the wrist, they say.
“If it took more than one shot, it probably wasn’t a Jacobs”
There’s a very Vash The Stampede feel to this smokewagon…maybe build it in .45LC with a 20ga underbarrel, LeMat style? I’m sure those Argentine “penguin” HE-FRAG slugs could be built in 20ga with here-current technology… hmm.
Quite a familiar gun design right from the movie. Earlier conceptions of that gun were very exotic, firing a “black negative energy beam” to kill Replicates. Frankenstein amalgams of specially designed and grown tissues that are then assembled into one being. Their life spans are short but they can do much more than a regular non-augmented human in just four years of time.
We can always use a Taurus Raging Judge .454 since it can handle a variety of ammo and still be quite powerful. That revolver can handle 3 types or rounds. Standard colt .45, shotgun 000 half load or the .454 Casull (the last is a bear hunting round). The chamber can only hold 5 rounds because the loads are to big. Good fur hunting animals or humans. Even vehicles if need be. better have strong wrists!
“Replicants” my bad.