While Bram is waiting for his Plasma Rifle...
... he can perhaps assuage his hunger with this nifty Zombie putter-downer recommended by Rocket Jones:
Rocket Jones' description is apt:
"If you'll notice, besides the space saving bullpup design, there are two magazine tubes sitting side by side under the 18.5" long barrel. There's a selector lever that you use to set to feed from either magazine. Can you say "seven rounds of double ought *and* seven more of slugs?" I knew you could. That's fifteen rounds (one in the chamber) of sweet zombie brain perforating power right there."
But really, it was almost spoiled when he pussies out on the bore:
"My only reservation is that this puppy is 12 guage. I like 12 guage, but if I'm going to be shooting enough to warrant this kind of weapon, I'd rather see it in something a tad more benign to the shoulder like 20 gauge or even .410. That would probably also add a couple more rounds to the magazine capacity too."
Shame on you, Jones.
The World's Most Perfect Zombie Killing Weapon? Until we get plasma rifles, this is certainly a contender.
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In its defense, this bull…
In its defense, this bull pup doesn't have magazines. With dual magazine tubes, you'd probably just have two loading gates - probably not much more difficult to load than a regular shotgun.
All the other criticisms would still apply, of course.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why people keep coming out with bullpup designs. Ergonomically, they're a disaster: long, complicated trigger linkages (good luck getting a good trigger there, Scooter); magazines load behind your hand, so you have to look at what you're doing (taking your eye off Zed in the meantime); ejecting cartridges and hot gas right by your eyes; and any destructive failure of the chamber is right next to your eye socket, instead of in front of you.
But they look cool, which probably explains the persistent of the design.
Boy, I sound like an old geezer, don't I? Oops, gotta go - it's those damn kids back again.
HEY YOU! GET OFFA MY LAWN!
He wants it .410 or 20-guage? I was hoping for 10-guage for more zombie blasting fun. I want to see an undead mist after each shot.
Last year when I actually had money for a new rifle, Kel-Tec RFB's were hard to find and only available with 18" barrels. I was waiting for the promised but never seen 26" or 31" models.
Easy answer - they are shorter. The military loves shorter rifles - that's why the Army has almost completely replaced the M16 with the M4.
The bullpup makes the rifle shorter without chopping 4" off the barell (shorter barrel gives you lower muzzle velocity and less downrange accuracy). Standard military rifles usually have crap triggers anyhow – although the Tavor is supposed to be decent. The ejection problem is fixed in some newer bullpups with forward or bottom ejection (Kel-Tec RFB, FN F2000)
The question is which trade-off do you want – and everyone has a different opinion.
In the case of a pump-action shotgun, the bullpup design also gives it longer magazine tubes, not just a longer barrel. So, it hold more rounds and shoots them at a higher velocity than a conventional shotgun of the same overall length.
And keeping overall length down is a big deal if you plan on maneuvering indoors or in thick brush.
LOL Pussies out?!?!
Given that situation, I'd rather shoot 410 or even 20ga over 12ga all day long. We're talking skull here, no need to shoot something powerful enough to penetrate concrete.
I had thought that 410 shells were shorter than 12ga, but I did a little reading and it ain't always so. So much for my thinking that you'd be able to carry more rounds in the magazine with the lighter gauge. Although you could carry more in your reload pouches without worrying about a hernia.