I know what you're thinking, punk. "was that seven shots I fired, or only 6?". Well to tell you the truth, in all the excitement I lost track myse... Oh actually I have a little window. Yup! 1 shot left. So, do you feel lucky? Punk.
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Definitely lots of movies would be affected by this
The round count is a neat feature. I certainly don't think having it hurts anything for the shooter, but I immediately understood the institutional choice against going to the effort of implementing it widescale. That's a lot of increased bits of production for a feature that is unlikely to give a real advantage.
The round count is a neat feature. I certainly don’t think having it hurts anything for the shooter,
I dunno. Having to point the muzzle perpendicular to the shooter to read it sounds like a bad idea. If this had gone into production, there would likely be a non-zero number of victims of unintended discharge to the immediate left of the shooter.
For every feature, you've got to consider that people are absolute morons
I can see a pistol grip without turning the gun perpendicular to my stance. Hold pistol with the muzzle forward, cocked elbow, rotate wrist until grip is visible.
I have to wonder though, if it was adopted it could have fixed this feature as a standard in the American market for pistols. Which would ultimately make it a global standard.
It's one of those ideas that keeps popping up (like in the ASP or the digital round counters today). Windowed Pmags are fairly popular. And they've recently announced clear ones. Maybe someday it'll be a standard feature in all firearms.
For institutional- to say, military use, there is a different calculus then for the civilian market. Also commenting about why it wasn't adopted at the time. Like I said, it's a neat feature, and it might appeal on the market, but for a military that's extra different kinds of material that has to go into the production of the gun itself. Look at what happened in WW2 when production ramped up- weapons were constantly redesigned down to the bone. The windows would never have survived those redesigns.
Windowed Pmags are fairly popular.
You don't have to make any changes to the existing gun for them to work. It's also of a luxury of modern production, there is daylight between PMAGs and talking about why a military didn't adopt the feature at the turn of the 1900s.
Your WW2 point is a good one, if a feature like that could latch on as a vestige it'd get lopped off in war time simplification.
Yes, although modern production like the electronic round counter might have a future. Personally I’m holding out for an enhanced reality setup where the information is visible on a soldier’s view. Still more likely to happen with rifles but if the tech becomes cheap enough why not stick it in pistols.
I love the contrast in the design of those two pictures. One with a futuristic electronic screen and presumably a load of sensors, all of which can go wrong or break; one which just lets you look through the side!