10mm revolver/pistol

The 10mm cartridge was probably chosen because 9mm Parabellum has traditionally been the European round for 100+ years now even in the face of ineffective stopping power. Honestly, they should have just went with .45 ACP but since almost none of the guns in the game are directly based on real ones, they probably didn't want to do that. The game's pistol lineup should have went something like: .45 semit-automatic pistol, .357 Magnum revolver, and then the Mauser or the Luger (former preferably). Of course, the few other oddball pistols would have been there too.

As to some of the weapons having a cylinder? Got me. The pistol looks like it just has a laser sight on the side that happens to look like a cylinder. You can not mix a magazine-fed pistol with a revolver cylinder like that. If you did manage it, it would essentially be two guns with one grip... Pointless. - Colt
 
well, in the fallout manual there is a drawing of the gun, it looks a lot like a revolving cylinder to me :?
I suck at math so I drew a 10mm 12 round revolving cylinder in autocad, when I measured it and stuff it showed that it'd have to have:
Radius: 26mm
Circumference: 163.3628mm
Is this to much for a revolving cylinder?
(would be good to know for me since I want to model the 10mm pistol in 3dsmax :D )
 
5.2 cm diamter seems a bit small for a cylinder holding 12 10mm cartridges. While they might all fit in that, you have to remember space between them for the actual chamber walls (and enough metal there so the gun won't explode) and the rid and spring system in the middle of the cylinder. There have been 6+ cartridge revolvers in the past, and some are still around, but the problem is the revolver starts getting too big and heavy to quickly point and shoot and takes forever to reload.

As far as drawings in the manual go... I just looked through the PDF version and aside from screenshots in game, there was just a drawing for inventory items and that looks less like a cylinder than the in-game sprite. To me anyway. - Colt
 
Just look at the kind of grenade launchers they use in Israel. Now that's a huge fucking revolver.
 
Heh :)

@Colt How much metal would there need to be between the cartridges?
doesn't this look like a revolving cylinder btw?
 
Well if you really want to flame this gun just check out the grip under the barrel. Whats that about? Maybe it is so heavy you need to hold it with both hands.
 
:D heh, I don't want to flame the gun, I want to know excactly how it looks, does it have a revolving cylinder..? how long is it..? and so on...The reason is because I'll eventually model it in 3dsmax(I've allready started the AK112)
And since this thread was allready about the 10mm gun, why not use it to find out more about the gun when I'll eventually do it sometime anyway? :wink:
 
Somebody in this thread made the comment that it would be like two pistols with one handle, mabey this is designed so that if one system fails the other could keep working.......this gun looks to me as if it is a revolver/ pump action pistol........witch might make sense in a world where you had not the time or experience to fix and mantain your firearm.?????
 
It doesnt look so much like a revolveing cylinder to me as maybe a lazer sight that no longer works.
 
Now that I've taken a better look at it it seems that the thing on the side might be some sort of cocking lever, also there doesn't seem to be a slide, so it very well might be. Maybe the gun works similarly to the old Luger.
 
Yes, I made the comment that it would be like two guns with one handle but I wasn't talking about this gun specifically. As I said, it would be large, awkward and complex.

If that is a cylinder on this pistol then the entire thing won't work. Period. It's not a pump action pistol or a Luger either. It's probably just a weird, futuristic-looking, pistol that they came up with that sort of resembled multiple semi-automatic designs.

As far as the multiple grenade launchers the Israelis (amongst others) use, those aren't normal revolvers. The cylinder has a spring that is pre-wound. Can you imagine trying to rotate a heavy cylinder 20 cm across with a lever 3 cm long? Those things are capable of firing buckshot though. Super shotgun.

Kahgan:
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I'm pretty this is a 9mm revolver so just look at that and extrapolate for more chambers. :) - Colt
 
OK, I checked it with more metal between the holes, it'd have to be 72mm in diameter, a bit big, yeah...
 
Yes. Why?

Too large?
9 mm is roughly .35 inches.
.44 inches would be roughly 11 mm.
Not exactly too big, rather too small.

Too exotic?
Heck, you can make almost anything into a revolver.
 
I thought the problem with a 10mm pistol in fallout beeing a revolver was that it has 12 rounds...?
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
Yeah, but making a 9mm revolver is blasphemy. Why would you do that?
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Why not? There are revolver that fire 9mm Parabellum. There's one revolver that fires everything from 9mm Parabellum to .357 Magnum. Do you think .357 Magnum is even that caliber? No. It's .38 There are semi-automatic pistols that fire .357 and .44 Magnum cartridges. - Colt
 
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