The Colt 41-A pulse rifle is a 10 mm pulse action automatic rifle, which has been adopted to be the marines standard personal issue weapon. The rifle has an over-and-under configuration that also comprises of a 30 mm pump action grenade launcher. A spring loaded retractable stock allows the weapon to be used in a Carbine format (with the stock retracted) or as a standard rifle, with the stock extended for a greater stability when the person is firing from the shoulder.
The standard ammunition is a M309 10 mm X 24 round. The ammunition is case less and has a high explosive tipped with light armor piercing capabilities. It is designed to puncture personal armor, exploding just after the impact to inflict massive internal damage to the target. Due to the efficiency of the ammunition, the round is nearly all warhead, making it very compact. The ammunition clip will hold up to 100 M309 rounds in a 'N' bend conveyor, which feeds the rounds mechanically into the breech. In practice situations though, the clips are filled up to 95 rounds in order to reduce the autoloaders tendency to jam up.
The rifle also uses an electronic pulse action to fire, controlled from the trigger. The weapon can be set to selective, burst, or full automatic depending on the select switch. Which allows the option of a higher rate of fire up to the weapon's full cyclic rate of fire of 1000 rpm. A LED display is situated just below the receiver to indicate how much ammunition is left in the clip.
The under slung 30 mm grenade launcher uses a pump action to load the breech from the five round capacity to help the internal feed. Once the launcher has been loaded, it can fire the grenades using the trigger. This means that the weapon's regular fire facility is immobilized while the launcher is primed, although it's operator can override this option by pressing the select switch fully down. The launcher sometimes employs the M40 fragmentation round as standard, but HEAP (High Explosive Armor Piercing). Other ammunition is also available, such as White Phosphorus Incendiary and Hexachlorine Smoke ammunition is used sometimes.
The gun itself is a very reliable weapon, it's fully sealed against corrosion and dirt, yet, it's easy to dissemble and maintain. The optical electronics are hardened against the EMP and radiation, and the weapon is perfectly useable in a vacuum. However, using this weapon out in space, it is not stabilized enough or dampened for free-fall combat operations.
Now here are the pieces from each gun they used.
Now you need these pieces to create the gun set up.
Some sources you can use to get these pieces are toy
guns, models, or take castings from the original weapons.
Or if your good enough just make them from scratch using any material
that looks good, but this requires some talent in sculpting.
Now that we have our pieces, lets begin.
We need to make the pieces that we don't have which are the clip and
the main gun body.
Here is the clip, just add to the bottom of the clip that the tommy gun uses.
See the white piece? This is what you add, make it from wood plastic, it doesn't matter.
Then make the main body casing that makes this gun infamous.
Try to get the button release for the clip on the shell to match the
one on the gun.
And as for the counter, if you can find the components to make your
own then good,
if not the best place I found it Hyperdyne labs.
There link is here:
Other than that, its up to you to decide what you need to do
to make your weapon your own.
What we are doing is looking for an old set of models from the 80s.
These were models of 1/1 scale firearms.
Finding the 3 models of the guns above we will start with that.
Taking the pieces from that and molding them
we can get working pieces of plastic for a Heroes version of the rifle.
Taking these and molding them we will make our own molds to
make our guns.
We will post our progress as we go.
Photos and instructions on what we do.
For now we continue our search for the model guns.
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