Tiefling
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I was reading Call of Cthulhu the other day and a couple questions about the gun section popped into my head.
1. The description of semi-automatic action mentions that on both a single-action and a double-action gun, a round must be in the chamber before it can be fired. Is it neccessary to put a round in the chamber by opening the chamber and putting it there directly? Is there some sort of switch that you pull to move a round from the magazine to the chamber? Is a round automatically loaded in when a magazine or a stripper clip is inserted?
2. Does a caliber with two numbers and a dash (such as ".30-30") mean that the number after the dash is in thousandths and ten-thousandths of an inch? And if so, who first looked at a .30 caliber bullet and said, "You know, I think this needs another 3 thousandths of an inch"?
1. The description of semi-automatic action mentions that on both a single-action and a double-action gun, a round must be in the chamber before it can be fired. Is it neccessary to put a round in the chamber by opening the chamber and putting it there directly? Is there some sort of switch that you pull to move a round from the magazine to the chamber? Is a round automatically loaded in when a magazine or a stripper clip is inserted?
2. Does a caliber with two numbers and a dash (such as ".30-30") mean that the number after the dash is in thousandths and ten-thousandths of an inch? And if so, who first looked at a .30 caliber bullet and said, "You know, I think this needs another 3 thousandths of an inch"?