So, a derringer is a small pistol, usually with two shots, made for close-range self-defense. Normally they use, well, pistol rounds, like a 9mm, which has like, 700 joules of energy or someshit like that. When you fire a lightweight gun, you definitely get some kickback from it, even with a pistol round.

A 45-70 is a big-ass rifle round with something like 4000 joules of energy behind it. You uh, you put that in a little derringer and pull the trigger, both you and your target are gonna feel it.

This also might help put it into perspective

I think you’d need to put a lot of shots into the skirt to make the air loss significant enough to stop it.

Hey, I’m down for gun enthusiasts getting weird guns. It’s more environmentally friendly than a huge truck, that’s for sure.

Mostly I was just grabbing a pistol cartridge that I was vaguely familiar with to demonstrate the difference between a ‘normal’ round for a handgun and a 45-70.

Wow, that’s… bizarre reasoning.

Davy Crockett derringer when

No problem! That particular derringer is special-made to hold a 45-70. A more typical derringer would look more like this or this.

Really, the only use case I can think of, other than “I like shooting powerful rounds”, for the 45-70 is big-game hunting or self-defense against bears, lmao.

Each one is a combination of ‘Celestial Object’ and ‘synonym for deer’. The first two seem innocuous and fantastic enough, but they establish the pattern - letting the third be ‘Starbucks’, a real-life coffee shop chain.

Ah, smokeless powder! Ensuring mankind has more power than we know what to do with since the late 19th century.

lmao the absolute madman

This just in: Steve reports he has a stress fracture of the wrist.

Sounds about right

So, a derringer is a small pistol, usually with two shots, made for close-range self-defense. Normally they use, well, pistol rounds, like a 9mm, which has like, 700 joules of energy or someshit like that. When you fire a lightweight gun, you definitely get some kickback from it, even with a pistol round.

A 45-70 is a big-ass rifle round with something like 4000 joules of energy behind it. You uh, you put that in a little derringer and pull the trigger, both you and your target are gonna feel it.

This also might help put it into perspective

Someone needs to read better adult books.

A friend of mine, married to a European, said that I should have been born in Europe, not the US, due to my hatred of small talk.

Our national holiday consists of drinking and playing with explosives at nighttime. You do the math.

It’s generally a very cheerful level of suicidality though! Would be awful to bring the mood down by making a suicide all somber or some shit.

https://www.facebook.com/gambargin

Stop, I can only get so erect

It’s more of a “I just lost my starboard engine. Get set up for your attack run.”

“Good enough” is “My head is barely above water and I’m wondering if it’s worth the effort”

A lot of reasons, but deeply rooted incompetence and graft in the government is a big one. A culture of tax evasion, lack of enforcement of laws on the private sector, and a lack of investment in improving industrial practices (leading to low productivity per hour worked compared to countries that DO keep up-to-date) also contribute.

Yeah, it’s just tone is sometimes funny getting across in the written word.

This is pretty damn useless. But how neat!