RE: Reading Request.

At 10:25 PM 3/27/02 -0500, Ryan wrote:
>At 5:13 PM -0800 3/27/02, Brian Bilderback wrote:
>>Ryan M Gill wrote:
>>
>>>Though I wish John had pushed back a bit more on the daftness of the
>>>lever action/semi-auto hunting rifle. Weber really wanted the "feel"
>>>of it so Ringo relented.
>>
>>?
>>
>>Could you elaborate for those who haven't read it, but are curious
about 
>>the tech?
>
>One of the characters has a large bore hunting rifle that he takes with

>him on the "expedition" across the planet. It comes in handy as it
turns 
>out. Though initially the folks on the expedition are rather
non-plussed 
>about the prince's choice of weapons.

It's actually a bolt action/semi-auto rifle.  I don't see anything too 
bizarre about it.  If Franchi can make the SPAS 12 in pump/semiauto, I 
can't see why it would be too terribly difficult to make Roger's 
weapon.  Why, is a bigger question.  If you've got space drives and 
power-armour, it shouldn't be too difficult to have semiauto hunting
rifles 
as accurate as bolt-action jobs.  HK does it today, after all.