Re: [ORE] Godlike m1garand

I love Top Shot (its the reason my wife and I took up archery) and things like seeing the Garand and what it could do in capable hands is awesome for having a benchmark for my Godlike PCs.

Chris Fougere

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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:52:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [ORE] Godlike m1garand
From: awgoodall@gmail.com
To: cult-of-ore@googlegroups.com

In the U.S. (and probably available elsewhere) on the History Channel is a reality TV/competition show called Top Shot. It's a marksman competition show, featuring current weapons as well as a wide array of historically significant weapons.

The show starts with two teams. Each week they compete in shooting challenges. The losing team puts up two people for "elimination". They go into a head-to-head competition, with one moving on and another eliminated. The winner of this season gets $100,000 plus a gig as a professional marksman. The host is Colby Donaldson, a winner of Survivor and an avid gun owner.

There's a second, companion, show called Top Guns on the H2 channel. Top Guns also features Colby Donaldson, along with the expert-of-the-week and the weapons featured on that week's episode of Top Shot.

A couple of weeks back the two shows had episodes involving British firearms, in particular the Lee-Enfield rifle (technically the Rifle No. 1, Mk 3). One of the competitions on Top Shot featured a "Mad Minute", where the competitors had to hit a 12" target at 300 yards as many times as they could in a minute.

I won't spoil the episode for those who want to watch it. British riflemen, at the end of their training, were expected to hit the target around 15 times in that one minute interval. The record was an astounding 38 hits. This is for a bolt action rifle where 5 rounds at a time were fed into it from above by way of a stripper clip. Granted, this was under ideal target practice conditions and not in the middle of combat, but it's still an amazing amount of firepower out of a bolt action rifle.

I mention the episodes because they do a really good job of showing you what the weapon looked like, how it was loaded, and give you a good idea of how tricky the things were to aim.

The point is that if a player buys hyperrifle or hypercoordination, I'm loathe to tell him "sorry, one round per combat round" for a bolt action rifle. I let the players with a relevant power do multiple shot actions with a bolt action rifle per combat round. It's feasible for top-end human performance to get three or four successful sets in real life, so I don't see why a Talent couldn't do it either.

I just mention this, tangentially, based on the rate of fire query about the Garand.

The episode of Top Shot I mention is available on Hulu, along with the other episodes of this season. It's Season 4, Episode 8, "The Mad Minute":

http://www.hulu.com/top-shot

The Top Guns episode is available on Hulu for a couple more weeks (I have no idea why these episodes expire). The episode is Season 1, Episode 8, "British Ballistics":

http://www.hulu.com/top-guns

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