Chapter 18: Alchemist Specializing in Lost Weapons
However, seeing the paper shell shotgun that was common in the black powder era, Ruger's other unasked question was no longer needed.
He actually wanted to ask Tia, since there is a Lost Master, there should be other firearms.
At least, a pump-action or even lever-action smoothbore gun should be made, right?
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But looking at the bullet, you know that those are impossible.
Whether it is pump-action or lever-action, the biggest advantage compared to the break-action is that there is a tubular magazine, so the firing rate has an advantage.
But her handmade cardboard shell is not stressed enough, and it is easy to deform when stored in the tubular magazine and pressed by the feeding spring.
It may even break directly.
If you use a magazine or a bolt-action rifle with a built-in magazine, there will be the same problem.
So if an alchemist of Tia's level can only use paper shell ammunition, then the break-action is really their inevitable choice.
But now~
"Tia, do you want to learn from me how to make better ammunition?"
Ruger casually took out his own ammunition and handed it to Tia.
"Well, consider it as a thank you for teaching me the Shadow Cloak."
"What?"
Tia was shocked when she heard it, and her bright eyes were even more round than when she saw someone kill nightmare zombies in seconds.
"Brother Lu, are you serious? You can make lost weapons? Are you also an alchemist?"
"Are you a master who specializes in lost weapons?"
"Yes." Ruger nodded immediately this time, without any guilt.
With the template of Los Santos Mechanic and master-level skills, it is not too correct to say that he is an alchemist who specializes in lost weapons.
"Wow~ So, the lost weapon that you used before that can fire continuously is your own work?"
"Also, the ammunition you used to kill those hard-headed zombies before was also made by you?"
As she spoke, the excited Tia had already approached Ruger, wrapped her arms around his arms, and pressed her whole body against him.
Of course, that thing that was more lethal than the pineapple bomb and stuck to someone's arm almost killed him.
He silently recited "Five colors make people blind" several times in his heart, and then he barely controlled the blood and anger that surged up, and took out a single-headed armor-piercing bullet with his backhand.
In front of Tia, Ruger disassembled it in two or three moves, and held the four parts of the bullet, shell, butt, and primer in his hand.
"Is this the material commonly used by the Lost?" The first thing Tia noticed was the blue plastic shell.
"Unfortunately, we can't make this kind of material. We can only extract it from the relics of the Lost, and the effect is not good."
"It's better to use the hair of the spiny rat directly."
Spiny rat hair? Isn't that metal?
"You can use metal to make bullet shells?" Ruger realized that he had thought wrong.
Yes, they can make gun barrels, so why can't they make metal bullet shells?
The only problem is probably the cost.
Sure enough, Tia's words soon confirmed this.
With the equipment they have, plus some unique skills developed from alchemy magic, it is not a problem to make it.
Even the materials are not a big problem, after all, there are endless monsters.
But the time and energy cost is too high.
"I might as well make a few more big bombs instead of making metal shell bullets."
Tia's words sounded so right to Ruger that he couldn't refute it at all.
But in this case, it would not work to teach her how to make bullets in return for the magic cloak.
"No, can you teach me how to make this blue shell bullet!"
Tia took the parts from Ruger with interest.
"This is also a single-headed bullet, right? But I've never seen this shape before."
"Is it because of this shape that it can kill those powerful zombies in seconds?"
How should I put it? The shape is important, but the material itself is also important.
Especially for shotgun ammunition with low chamber pressure.
Whether the chamber pressure is high or not can be simply understood as whether the energy provided by the propellant is high or not.
Under the premise that the energy is certain and not high, if you want the projectile to have better armor-piercing ability, both the material and the shape are indispensable.
"Is that so~" Tia thoughtfully clamped the tungsten alloy bullet, weighed it, and nodded.
"This thing is much heavier than it looks."
The density of tungsten alloy used in bullets is about 5 to 3 times that of steel.
The higher the density, the greater the mass at the same volume.
The greater the mass, the greater the kinetic energy at the same speed.
The kinetic energy is large, well, the penetration power is stronger under the same shape.
"Well, the teacher also told me this."
Tia nodded, then sighed, "But it's hard to find suitable materials!"
Ruger was also somewhat embarrassed.
He originally planned to return the favor and teach Tia a few tricks, and show off his ability by the way.
Unexpectedly, the people he wanted to teach actually knew how to do it, and the biggest problem was that they didn't have the right materials.
Now, he had no choice but to spend a lot of points to buy some finished armor-piercing bullets for Tia.
Fortunately, even so, Tia was still very excited and thanked Ruger.
But Ruger was a little frustrated that he had been holding back to use a big move, but in the end he only hit a normal attack crit.
So after Tia started to deal with the bag of new materials, he finally said his original idea.
He was going to go hunting in the outer area.
Tia already knew that his real combat power was much higher than it looked, and she saw with her own eyes that he had learned the authentic Shadow Cloak.
Naturally, he wouldn't worry about danger if he went too far, so he quickly nodded in agreement.
On Luger's side, his family fortune has been almost depleted by successive accidents, and he is more eager to earn points than before.
During this hunting, he almost scanned a five-kilometer radius.
But in the end, he stopped near the entrance of the evil cave.
He finally thought of what gift to give to Tiya.
Since she actually knows how to make metal bullet cases, she just has no motivation to make them due to cost-effectiveness considerations.
Then he would give her this value for money.
A gun whose firepower is no less than that of a big pineapple bomb, at least they have advantages over each other.
shotgun.
With previous gun-making experience and the harvesting points from the second big hunt, Ruger was more efficient this time.
In less than two hours, two new guns were made with the assistance of the logistics base.
They are still shotguns, and one even has the base of the Mosenberg 590.
But the difference is that the ammunition supply mechanism of these two guns is replaced by a magazine type.
Yes, you heard that right, Ruger made two magazine-fed pump-action shotguns.
In fact, it is not difficult to convert a pump-action shotgun with a built-in tubular magazine into a magazine feed.
On the Ruger side, Mosenberg's own family and its main commercial rival Remington made two such guns.
Remington 870DM, and Mosenberg 590M.
In fact, the real technical content lies in the choice of magazine capacity.
After all, the diameter of a 12-gauge shotshell is 4mm.
With such a large amount of ammunition, if you put too much in the magazine, it will be too crowded; if you put too little, then why use the magazine at all?
In the end, Ruger did not adopt the bloated design of Mosenberg’s dual-row ammunition supply standard of 10 rounds.
Instead, I used Remington's 6-round single stack magazine.
For Ruger, who can use logistics space as a medium to perform magic out of thin air, this size is just right.
As long as there are enough magazines in the space, he can fire almost unlimited bullets.
Of course, considering problems such as barrel overheating, it cannot be truly infinite.
And after he rushed into the evil cave again and fought with those nightmare-level monsters,
The firepower of the two new guns has passed the actual combat test.
