Comments by "The Esseboy" (@TheEsseboy) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1. It needs current, not high voltage, the poles of a 9V battery is way too far apart to make a connection...besides how often do you dump your ammo every were and trow 9V batteries on them?
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  2. If the voltage is high less heat will be generated as resistance loss. The round would not go off. And even if it did it would not be inside a barrel, hence why it would only be as dangerous as a little rock thrown at you.
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  3. Hold on my fire pin just broke.
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  4. Yea, :P At least you can see at ones what the problem is haha :D
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  5. The primer still contains primer, I.E it would need to be reloaded it self! And the wire is a couple of thousands thick, it vaporizes!
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  6. Less noise, easier bolt, less complexity, less moving parts, higher fire rates, adjustable fire rates, remote control, lighter gun. A LOT would get better, I find it hard to find any drawback to be honest.
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  7. Well, basically none. The military uses a lot of electric primers in more heavy equipment.
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  8. Because that would make for a very very stiff and complex bolt, coils, magnets, wires, sliding contacts NO that would be a nightmare! A battery don't need to move.
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  9. Hmm, but that takes a lot of room in the receiver. And you will have to pull it with a lot of speed to charge the capacitor! Wont fire reliably i think. A battery solves all those problems, besides, it is an old design, now days you would use a 18650 lithium battery and charge it with a power bank :) Then you can just bring a 10400mAh pack and shoot until the barrel wears out HAHA
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  10. Well if it is going to have to take several dozens of amps when you crank that bolt back i think it would need to be a bit beefier. We are talking charging a capacitor up to about 5 joules in .5 seconds, and as it certainly will be low voltage those copper wires will need to be thick. And the bolt will be much harder to pull back so it will disturb the sight picture a lot compared to a free sliding bolt with the battery. A 18650 lithium battery can put out between 50-100 joules a second so with that it would take .1-.05 seconds for a follow up shot which is as fast as you can do the action, and with a free sliding bolt that will be very fast! I understand if you think it would be bad in front line military action were you haven't got resupplied in months but in civilian use the use of a battery would definitely be an easier setup. Besides development for a system you are proposing would be costly to say the least. Efficiency on linear generators aren't exactly great and you don't want to be pulling the bolt back and fourth to get enough charge for a shot...spilling ammo all over the place haha!
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  11. Totally depends on the primer design yes. But why skip the battery? As I said, the costs would be too high for such a receiver design, as it would need to manufactured with high precision, which is expensive. And as I come to think of it you would need to store that energy some where waiting for the next shot right? A capacitor will discharge that in a matter of seconds ;) Check mate, you need a battery :)
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  12. Are you maybe stupid?
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  13. Those would be too easy to turn off. Anything can be hacked if you got hands on access! Good for keeping children away though!
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