Um...I'm not too familiar with guns..looks like any other rifle to me ^^, if recoil is that bad wont it also pluck out her eye XD? But must be hellava hard to reload 2 guns with 1 tail.
comment #6465 How much of a fag do you want to be about this?
7.62x54 isn't that earth shattering. It's nothing like a .50 BMG, which humans can still fire well enough, even out of a pistol.
And being a total fag, Elvaan are larger and stronger than hume's. nyeah.
The truth is I don't think anyone cares how much you know about guns. You're attacking the smallest gap in realism in a huge fantasy world, and it's ridiculous. 1. It's a good picture. The artist is an artist, not a gun nut. He actually drew a decent pistol and rifle. Shockingly, in this quick sketch, he didn't position the rifle on the elvaan's shoulder correctly. 2. There's many other unrealistic qualities to it. Elvaans and Mithra for one. How many vertebrae are in the Mithran tail? Would their size and spacing make grabbing a pistol magazine impossible? Furthermore, she's shooting like she's john woo, instead of an effective school of pistol training where you might actually hit something. Ignoring the fact that neither Elvaans nor Mithra exist, or have firearms training. 3. The eye piece of the scope is bent. The rifle's casings are different sizes. They're making enough smoke that they must be shooting black powder loads. The Elvaan's ear is going through the butt of the rifle.
Is it a good picture? Yes. Are you nitpicking yes? Is it bad form to shoot a rifle without bracing the butt against anything? Yeah. Do we really care the artist didn't take time to correct that? No. Does a level 60 elvaan need to worry about breaking her arms from shooting a pathetic human rifle? NANDEYANEN.
Hello, it's the stupid, ignorant, nitpicking gun nut again ^^
quote: "[...] a .50 BMG, which humans can still fire well enough, even out of a pistol."
Woohoo, I want to see that gun...I think you might be confusing .50 AE with .50 BMG: Magnum Research Desert Eagle Mark XIX: .50 Action Express; Barret M82: .50 Browning (12,7 x 99 mm ! Just try to put one of those in a pistol...)
I like the picture too, and that is the reason why I looked at it long enough to find those "little gaps in realism". Being bored, I thought I could start a stupid, pointless little discussion here.
Sorry for bursting your bubble. Have a great time in your fantasy world!
Now this is seriously off-topic and might be really annoying for the average otaku...
I had the possibility to shoot a .500 S&W at a shooting range in Las Vegas, but I was neither looking for a broken hand nor for the experience of having spent more than 40 $ on something I couldn't either eat or f***. ^^
quote: "Gonna rate my own post down because this shit is so stupid." That doesn't matter, because as a consequence to your interesting links and this stupid discussion, I rated your post up again ^^
Right. You win. But what does this video (found on the site you linked to) tell you?
It tells me, at least, that: 1. The three persons featured are complete retards, dumb enough to risk injuries, just for showing off their "second amendment rights". But why did they practically mask themselves? Afraid of being recognized in public?
2. The "nuclear explosion" thing at the end of the video suggests that this isn't exactly supposed to be the pistol for the weak woman's handbag.
Again, a quote from your previous post: " [...] which humans can still fire well enough, even out of a pistol." "Well enough"...?
I also agree with the person ("Gordon Ferris") who posted: "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A .50 BMG PISTOL. COMMON SENCE SHOULD TELL YOU THAT. 80)" on the site you linked to. I bet if I only browse long enough, I will also find a video featuring someone (most likely some "proud American citizen") firing a 20mm HE anti-aircraft cannon from a standing position at a ground target, smiling into the camera or singing the national anthem. Whatever.
Ok, let's end this, here. The little girls in "Gunslinger Girl" and "Najica" also fired .44s, .50s and .50 BMGs like BB guns. It's crap, but hey...it's anime after all. We otakus like that, which is why we are here. Right? But remember: It always takes at least two stupid people to start a stupid discussion ^^
You forgot the part where the site said "See a spoof video of a Nuke .50 BMG." Spoof. It's lampooning the weapon and why someone would feel the need to have a .50 bmg in a handgun.
As such, don't try to use it as proof that a .50 bmg handgun doesn't exist.