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From: look@my.big.freakin.gun (QuakeFish)
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Subject: Re: Gun specialists? What about *REAL* guns?
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:01:59 -0700
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In article <35336A98.F0689978@gate.net>, Cal says...
> I think the machine gun in Quake2 is based on the Heckler and Koch 9mm. At
> least that is what it looks like. Dont know about the chaingun. I know the
> Vulcun is used on U.S. AA units. Uses 23mm rounds. If that was correct you
> wouldnt be able to lift the thing much less fire it. Trying to think of
> what they had used in that movie Predator. That seems to me to be the same
> gun Quake uses. Sure would be a trip to fire that in real life!

The gun in Predator is a real gun.  The XM-1xx somethin-or-other.  It 
fires 5.56mm rounds at some ungodly rate, 1000/sec. or something.  It's 
basically useless though.  In order to tote around enough ammo for it 
you'd need a truck, and if you had a truck you could just put a real gun 
on it like .50 cal or M240G.  

Also, I don't think it was actually desined by the military, but some gun 
nut...  read about it in Guns & Ammo (I think) a couple years back.  They 
had a cool picture where this guy had THREE of them linked in tandem, in 
a triangle shape.... talk about SPRAY AND PRAY!

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