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over 4 years ago - /u/NylesBlack - Direct link

Yeah, levering would be tough with that one. :)

Also, from my understanding, working the lever once moves a round forward through the helix magazine. So unless you top it up after shot fired, you might need to work that lever a lot of times until the first newly inserted round at the back is ready to be fired in the breech.

Very interesting weapon designs back in the day, but many of them were very clunky in practice. :)

over 4 years ago - /u/NylesBlack - Direct link

Originally posted by Alelogin

You guys made a harpoon spear shooting exploding crossbow bolts. I think you can change the mechanism of a gun to fit it to the game.

True, but that's not what was asked here. :)

One way to make this work would be to stay closer to the design of a Spencer Carbine for example, instead of a helix magazine, and swap four separate spring-loaded tubes that force rounds towards the breech, instead of having one big tube that moves them up like a conveyor belt with the aforementioned disadvantages.

Let's see what the future holds. :)