Those are some massive bullets: it looks like the mag wouldn't fit more than six, but I guess the police need to be able to fight Grimm when Huntsman and Huntresses aren't around.
Those are some massive bullets: it looks like the mag wouldn't fit more than six, but I guess the police need to be able to fight Grimm when Huntsman and Huntresses aren't around.
But imagine the recoil on that monster. You'd be lucky you didn't lose your damn hand firing that thing.
There are a number of things that don't make sense mechanically about the design of this weapon. That may be a large caliber round, but unless it is loaded in some very strange fashion inside the body of the weapon, it would get very little muzzle velocity with such a short barrel. In a real-life semiautomatic pistol, the magazine usually goes in the grip of the weapon, and the barrel begins at the rear end of the ejection port (visible on the right side view) when the action is closed and extends to the end of the muzzle. The fact that the visible part of the barrel covering the ejection port doesn't line up vertically with the muzzle is odd.
The ejection port needs to be long enough for the ejection mechanism to throw an entire round out the opening. Also, the chamber of the barrel should be about as long as the cartridge casing of the round, so consequently the bore of the barrel usually starts near the front end of the ejection port. Referencing a couple of Glock pistols I have in front of me, the rear end of the ejection port should be above the front end of the magazine opening when the action is closed, and approximately above the rear end of the magazine opening when the action is fully open. This makes sense because the bolt face of the slide pushes a round forward from the top of the magazine fully out of the magazine and into the chamber of the barrel.
Now in this weapon, the magazine is in front of the trigger, and it is so short that if the rounds were pushed forward out of the top to be chambered, the brass would be sticking out in front of the muzzle! o_O I guess you could have a mechanism inside like a shotgun, where the rounds go backward out of the magazine and go up a little ramp/elevator piece that raises it up to the level of the barrel, but that sounds really complicated for a pistol action.
There are a number of things that don't make sense mechanically about the design of this weapon. That may be a large caliber round, but unless it is loaded in some very strange fashion inside the body of the weapon, it would get very little muzzle velocity with such a short barrel. In a real-life semiautomatic pistol, the magazine usually goes in the grip of the weapon, and the barrel begins at the rear end of the ejection port (visible on the right side view) when the action is closed and extends to the end of the muzzle. The fact that the visible part of the barrel covering the ejection port doesn't line up vertically with the muzzle is odd.
The ejection port needs to be long enough for the ejection mechanism to throw an entire round out the opening. Also, the chamber of the barrel should be about as long as the cartridge casing of the round, so consequently the bore of the barrel usually starts near the front end of the ejection port. Referencing a couple of Glock pistols I have in front of me, the rear end of the ejection port should be above the front end of the magazine opening when the action is closed, and approximately above the rear end of the magazine opening when the action is fully open. This makes sense because the bolt face of the slide pushes a round forward from the top of the magazine fully out of the magazine and into the chamber of the barrel.
Now in this weapon, the magazine is in front of the trigger, and it is so short that if the rounds were pushed forward out of the top to be chambered, the brass would be sticking out in front of the muzzle! o_O I guess you could have a mechanism inside like a shotgun, where the rounds go backward out of the magazine and go up a little ramp/elevator piece that raises it up to the level of the barrel, but that sounds really complicated for a pistol action.
I couldn't have said it any better myself. Allowing the inevitable artistic freedom and existence of magic, I assume the gun works by when the round goes off, magic propels the bullet forward while retained by the projectile like a rocket rather than a normal firearm. That tube running through the side is a direct impingement tube (like M16) which cycles the action and vents out the rocket propellant to make a psuedo "recoilless" design (like Russian undermounted caseless firearms). When the slide recoils, it engages a flipper which catches the extracted round and pushes the empty case upward similar to a pump shotgun or bullpups like RDB or FN2000. Cases eject using momentum bouncing off an internal case deflector just behind the covered ejection port (head first, so it extracts essentially by being pushed out rather than tilted out (again, RDB or FN2000 style). As the gun recoils, the barrel slides forward (masked by flash) allowing the next round to pop up, as the barrel cycles it returns into battery picking up the next round but the barrel nestles in-between the feed lips (think of the lynx 50 bmg in a way).
Advantages: Very low recoil for high mass, for one most of the propellant burns outside of the gun, and the gas buildup in the "chamber" causes the weight of the barrel to throw forward to counter the recoil vecotr. Additionally, considering that the slide doesn't actually bear the pressure of the ammunition and serves as a psuedo dust cover for the ejection port, it can be made very light using plastics resulting in minimal recoil from the slide cycling. In close ranges I assume the magic propellant is also anti grimm and so when it impacts at close ranges that burning propellant serves to build pressure against the hollow point (it has to have a cavity on both ends, one for expansion one for holding powder charge) and this pressure forcibly opens the hollow point that didn't open at close range due to low velocity turning it into a mini internal grenade. At long ranges, the propellant provides enough velocity to cause the hollow point to expand and possibly fragment like the standard 5.56 ball out of a 16" barrel or greater. In both cases, short and long range, the damage is focused on the target and reduces the possibility of overpenetration that causes a loss in poential effectiveness and increased safety to downrange friendlies or noncoms.