GOING LIVE IN 10 MINUTES FOR SOME YAPPING, FOLLOWED BY ARMA REFORGER!

WHO THE HELL IS THIS LITTLE THING?

I'm finally playing a DIFFERENT roguelike deckbuilder on stream!! (And some of you in my discord might have guessed what it was in advance-)

Live in 5!! See you there!

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This is what I was busy with this Valentine's Day

(Yes they do in fact have little candy googly eyes)

This cat loves Balatro

Here's some pictures of this design, the Federov-Degtyarov - with water cooling jackets from the Lewis Gun and Maxim Machine Gun - as well as one with an air-cooled Madsen LMG barrel because I thought it looked neat (pics from IMFDB)

For some interesting footnotes, Fyodorov's assistant Vasily Degtyaryov would go on to be a much more significant firearms designer than his mentor, going on to create several weapon designs for the Soviet Union, some of which are still used today: the DP-27/28, the DShK, and RPD to name a few

Hello again! Today, we're looking at a really interesting footnote in firearms design history: the Federov Avtomat - what many would consider to be the first "assault rifle". Though the term is quite nebulous, this 1917 design shares a lot of elements that persist even in modern weapons design today

Behold: the .455 Webley, and all of its ridiculous iterations. Its dimensions are similar to .45 ACP, but the bullet design was just so wacky - as the British experimented with essentially making one bullet hurt as much as possible. .45 ACP was designed after cues and lessons from using .455 Webley.

This is .38 S/W alongside the British .38/200 cartridge the WWII era Webley used. The projectile of the .38/200 weighs roughly 20% more than the .38 S/W. If you look at the second picture, not even modern .38 Special has bullets that weigh that much. And it gets even more ridiculous than this!

Webley revolvers are break-action - meaning the weapon unfolds at a pivot to insert rounds and extract casings. This design is atypical today, as most revolvers use a swing-out cylinder, since break-action designs are more fragile and complex. At the time though, this design was revolutionary.

Finally time for some more gunposting! The weapon we'll be looking at this week is the Webley revolver. Though it may be humble in apperance, and similar in age to the more advanced Roth-Krnka I talked about last week(ish), the use of the Webley was much more widespread, and longer-lived.

Been real busy the past couple of days, and I've still got a couple left to go. I've had fun down at the beach, but I definitely can't wait to get home and get back to streaming.

More gunposting coming soon - for now, here's a picture of a sunset I took on the way here!

I guess the best place to start would be my own pistol, the Roth-Krnka M.7 (sometimes known as the Roth-Steyr M1907)

This 8mm striker-fired handgun was the first semi-automatic pistol to be formally adopted by a major military, Austria-Hungary, in 1909 - and saw widespread use by cavalry divisions.