cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21391043

Gut

[alt text: an illustration of a skeleton pointing a gun directly at the viewer. There is text in the image that says: “Trust my gut? The same gut that shit my pants last week? Yeah no thanks buddy”.]

  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    19 days ago

    There’s a lot wrong with that gun… like how the cylinder appears to revolve around the barrel. And how there are five chambers and none of them are at the top.

    • TheTurner@lemmy.zipEnglish
      101·
      19 days ago

      WHAT DID YOU SAY, BROTHER? I CAN’T QUITE HEAR YOU! YOU HAVE TO SPEAK UP!! ARROOOOO!!!

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      7·
      19 days ago

      Yeah, at first glance, that gun is a soup sandwich. However:

      the cylinder appears to revolve around the barrel.

      Seems to have taken some inspiration from the Lemat revolver.

      AFAIK, the Lemat was a cap-fired muzzleloader, but there is a fairly realistic rendition of what it could look like as a breechloader:

      and none of them are at the top.

      That’s not necessarily a problem either:

      (Chiappa Rhino)

      If the hole in the bottom is a small-bore revolver barrel, firing from the 6 o’clock position, and the gun features a second, single-shot, large-bore barrel above it, it could work.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        19 days ago

        Nifty examples of unusual revolvers, but in the image the cylinders would never actually line up with the barrel at all.

        That said I’D CRANK MY HOG HOLDING THAT GUN BROTHER

        • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          Nifty examples of unusual revolvers, but in the image the cylinders would never actually line up with the barrel at all

          Consider this:

          On most revolvers, this circled feature would be the hinge pin for the cylinder crane, allowing it to swing out for reloading. But, this thing is clearly not “most” revolvers. That’s not a pin.

          That circled feature is in line with the bottom chamber of the revolver. Nothing else is lined up with any chamber. That circled feature has to be the barrel for the revolver cylinder.

          The big barrel above it is a secondary, single-shot shotgun barrel. This barrel is much larger than the chambers in the revolver cylinder; it can’t be driving the small projectile fired from those chambers.

          The only way this gun works is if it is a two-barreled gun like the Lemat. The revolver fires from the bottom barrel rather than the top, like the Rhino.