Talk:Crescent Rose/@comment-67.42.119.104-20171029045709

I don't play this stuff or even care, really, but I'm making one for my granddaughter's halloween costume, and I logged on to check some details, and I see a real problem.

I was a combat operator in the airborne infantry, actually a Ranger first and then later at the end of my career, an 18BC3 Green Beret, weapons and ordnance specialist. In this capacity I can't help but notice a glaring mistake in the details of this weapon.

The magazine is backwards. If it is true that the barrel's projectile apperture (open end where the pointy lead thingys come out), otherwise known as the muzzle, is between the scythe blades at the head of the staff, then the cartridges must need to turn around during the cycling of the weapon  when the breech opens to eject and reload. The basic design of any standard magazine is built so that the cone shape of the cartridges will present flat and level to the bolt/breech as they move up in sucession to the loading mechanism. There is an algorithym that engineers use to determine the slope that is required based on the diameter of the shells, the length of the shells and the number of shells in the cartridge design, (and some miscellaneous factors like spring load, etc.).This dictates that the magazine has a steep ramp shape, the fat end of the cartridges towards the rear of the weapon, and the pointed nose of the projectile towards the front of the weapon. This is the case without exception, owing to the fact that all cartridges house the nitro-cellulose propellant in the expansion chamber at the rear of the cartridge and launch the projectile from the necked down and crimped forward end where the bullet rests, waiting to do the job it was designed for,... killing.

So, to recap. the taller end of the magazine WILL ALWAYS be towards the rear of the weapon, and the shorter end of the magazine will ALWAYS be towards the front or "barrel end" of the weapon. Then, as I said earlier, if the weapons muzzle is at the scythe blade end of this contraption, then the pictures included here (and everywhere else I've looked) show the magazine backwards in the weapon. That would make for a very bad day on the battlefield.

I hope I haven't offended anyone since I just wanted to point out that this should be fixed if you want accuracy in your characters arsenal.