@Schedrevka Is that a wood cutting axe as a stock on a Mauser C96??

Yep, removed the attachment point from a broken C96 stock and embedded it into the the handle of a hatchet.

Your gun?

nope

@propyne that looks pretty legit but I'd like to see it in action.

No can do, sorry

I can't afford both a rifle and a machinegun

The ATF changed their decision *several years* afterwards to say that it only becomes a machinegun when attached, not just while it's on your shoe.

Does it work?

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Time to clean this thread:
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Does anyone know about the viability of using acetylene gas as a propellant for a firearm?

burns too fast

same with all gas mixtures

I would think that fast burns would be a plus for propellants.

a leathal firearm?

or like a pellet gun

which, i guess, can be lethal

gunpowder works because it burns (relatively) slowly, giving the bullet time to accelerate down a barrel, a fast propellant like gas-air mixture or high explosives goes off all at once and explosively raises pressure. If your barrel doesn't explode it'd be good for only a few shots maximum, and any bullet you load it with would get torn apart before it's left the barrel fucking aerodynamic performance

Hmm. Interesting.

if we ignore the gas issue for the moment, and just look to any high explosive as a propellant

it works if you don't have a barrel or any other pressure-bearing component, but then you don't have any way to aim your bullet and the same explosive forced is aimed backwards at you

one way around this is:

~1000 lead balls thrown in the direction of the enemy using high explosives, and remotely detonated as it's still pretty dangerous behind a claymore unless you install a thick metal sheet or something

make sure you imprint it with "this side towards enemy"

you could just replace the C4 with a big balloon of oxy-acetylene if you wanted, and it'd work the same

but now I'm thinking... You could add something that doesn't burn, e.g. nitrogen to slow down the explosion... Perhaps using plain air pumped in from the surrounding instead of pure oxygen, or you could switch from acetylene to something slower burning like fuel. A car engine for example burns just on the edge between fast burning and explosion (and when a car engine misfires, the engine ignites while the pressure is still too high, and you get a small explosion that causes damage to your engine)

Ah, so simple air would provide a slower burn than pure oxygen. That explains a lot.

The idea came from an alternate reality concept I was reading that used rifles fueled off acetylene from a calcium carbide and water reaction, mixed with just regular old air.

if you have a large enough expansion chamber behind the bullet it will work, I was thinking more sci-fi than steampunk. In steampunk you've got the equivalent of a musket to compete with and it'll probably do just fine throwing a bit of shrapnel down a barrel (potato cannons are a thing, they use fuel + air, no reason you couldn't launch a rock at someone instead)