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Vikingsoldat

First time out of the vault
I wonder why they didnt put Flintlock guns into the Fallout games. It seems like ideal weapons for that world because its easy to repair and make.
 
Well, it didn't really fit into the setting. Plus, a flintlock isn't something every gunsmith might know how to make. You'd be hard-pressed to find a flintlock, nowadays. You'd either have to find it as a "collector's item" adverse to simply going to any hunting shop and buying a rifle.

If you want simplicity, a shotgun would be ideal. Smooth-bore barrels, simple wooden stock, simple firing mechanism conjoined with dual or single trigger. Easy.
 
Guns enough to ignore flintlock.

Which, amusingly enough, is the reason Fallout can't be set in Europe: not enough guns.
 
Forgotten said:
Bad news for fallout yurop then :D
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Meh, they'll insert a lot of guns anyway. And it's not completely impossible, if someone were to break open a military compound somewhere...

Still, "household weapons", like in Fallout (shotgun etc.) would realistically be unheard of in Europe, but...
 
Was that a swing at America?! Okay, get out the Patriotic Stick of Flogging.

I am, of course, just kidding (We're not all overzealous fanatics, after all).

Going back to the original topic, flintlocks, or other muzzle loading weapons for that matter, have a pitiful rate of fire for a post-nuclear world. Would you feel safe strapping a blunderbluss to your back when just about every thug has a Glock semi-automatic? Then there's the issue of molding your own lead, powder horns, and the chance that you might overload your pan. And if you move just a step up to percussion caps with cartridges, why not just move up to modern firearms? Granted that people still make muzzle loaders but, mostly, they are either enthusiasts or collectors, not people who actually use them as self defense.
 
Yes, in Fallout there are a lot of manufactured guns and apparently a lot of people who know how to take care of them, hence no need for homemade guns.

But in areas where guns are unavailable or prohibited (for example oppressive states like Vault City), homemade guns do make sense.
 
Flintlock guns would be more realistic because its easy to make ammunition for them. Homemade black powder wouldnt work with an M-16 Assault Rifle and any of the other modern guns. 30 years after the war, all the ammo would be used so modern guns would be useless.
 
No, ammunition is very easy to make. If you've ever hunted or know someone who hunts, they don't throw away the wasted cartridges, right? They keep the casings and reload them for future handloads. If you know the right measurements, it's just a simple matter of filling, priming, and recapping. In a way, it's just a little bit more effort than, say, molding a lead ball, making gunpowder, and a percussion cap. All the above material used to operate a flintlock gun are now used in bullets, except in a more simplified form.

Plus, I think there wuld be an abundance of ammunition, even despite the war. It's not like they lack the facilities. The Gun Runners and the Brotherhood seem to be up and about, right?

Besides, in a world where just about everyone is totting a gun and carrying around stims, bullets aren't such a stretch.
 
Vikingsoldat said:
30 years after the war, all the ammo would be used so modern guns would be useless.
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