Check out the Ammo and Explosives section of my site (URL in sig), I have a couple more ideas floating about but haven't fleshed them out yet.

Could be a potential reason to dikote your gun barrels. I have no idea how the heat given off by white phosphorous compares to the heat tolerances of dikoted materials, though.

Capsule rounds to carry chemicals like th eones you describe are available in Cannon Companion, page 38.

I imagine dikoted materials have a fairly high heat tolerance--the base material stood up to plasma, and the dikoting itself needs to be about that hot to be applied. I make the latter statement on the basis that most people wouldn't put more energy into something than they have to, because it would raise the bottom line.

So basically, Big D's Temper shells from the Cannon Companion?

yep seen it but my thoughts run towards what you can actually put in them the possibilities are endless.

My other thought on the way home was that,............

In the old days of rifling they used to wrap the lead shot in cloth so that it would grip the rifling in the barrel, hence making them ore accurate. Would it be possible to create a negative rifling grove on modern bullets so that they grip the barrel in the same way? theoretically they would become faster and more accurate? if this has already been done i consider my self slapped down for it, but if not what would the game possibilitys be?

Also what about ceramic coated shells, on impact they shatter when the softer outer shell is squashed by impact, huge dammage i think!

torz x

AFAIK, Remington doesn't make the Street Sweeper... it's a MacGuyvered street weapon. While it probably doesn't use PVC, I'm sure some sort of heavy industrial pipe could be used in its design.

Hrm. I wonder if a character with Shotgun B/R can make these and sell them on the street for a small profit... drives around in an ice cream van, selling polymer one-shots to the street kiddies...

*blink* Huh? They used to be greased, but that was WAY before the modern twist rifle. And they wouldent be using 'shot' per say, as it would then be smooth bore. So I say to you

No, they wouldn't become any faster or more accurate. It seems that you have misunderstood the purpose of rifling in firearms.

Rifling is there to make sure that bullets, with their center-mass usually towards the rear of their longitudinal axis, remain statically (also called gyroscopically) stable in flight. It achieves this by incurring a certain amount of spin on the projectile inside the barrel. The amount of spin required is derived from the design of the bullet (mostly its length to diameter ratio) and some minor factors (air pressure, for example).

You'll want a large enough twist rate (determined in 1/# inches, e.g. 1/7") to keep the bullet statically stable in normal conditions, but you don't want much more than that. If the twist rate is too high for the particular bullet it becomes over-stabilized, ie. it spins so fast it keeps its nose pointing the in the direction it came out of the barrel in, unable to follow the trajectory (figure). This is unwanted, as it will degrade your accuracy over range.

The rifling does in no way make the projectile travel faster. If anything, it will slow the projectile down by a very minor amount, as it uses the forward-pushing force of the propellant to make the projectile spin.

You can find a great article on how bullets fly here. You might also want to read through Raygun's basics.

There's plenty of deforming and/or fragmenting bullet designs out there, several covered in SR. Seriously, if you're at all interested in guns but don't want to house rule most of the stuff, get Cannon Companion. And if you do plant to house rule everything, you might want to read up on Raygun's stuff.

The canon Flechette Ammunition rules covers weird deforming bullet designs nicely. If you wish, you can also use the rules for Glazer, Hollow Point or Mercury rounds from CC.

Fair play point taken ......... my bad, thanks for the tip about ballistics and i already have CC the only problem is any ideas i have about new forms of ballistics seem to be impossible or already done....... Doh back to the drawing bord!

torz x

That's usually the case. That's why we play RPGs instead of working for the defense industry.

How about Shotgun Shot APDS rounds? Flechette Gel rounds? EX-Explosive Taser Darts? Anti-Vehicular Capsule Missiles?

Antivehicular explosive taser gel flechettes only, you munchkin!

That's just 1 burst... I'm talking about multiple bursts in one combat phase. Yeah, I know the rules for it already, we just never had a person blow a ton of money on it yet...

Get with your doctor about getting either rose or green color lenses. They will help with the dyslexica. You will be amazed how it helps out. I have it also, but do to the fact that I do not see green or rose, they are not as affective for me.