The Range - Girls With Guns [Wednesday afternoon]

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

Triela was her usual grinning self when it came time to start the club today. She had several boxes laid out in front of her.

"Today," she explained to people as they arrived, "I'm showing off different types of ammunition. You know, for those who don't know but do care."

She waved at the various boxes, which contained standard hollow-point and solid slugs in addition to more specialized stuff like armor-piercing and tumbling rounds and the downright odd like the Glaser "safety" bullet.

Comments

Re: Mingle

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Like that, yeah."

Re: Mingle

[heromaniac]

"So, how do you know which type to actually use? I know when you would use rocksalt and silver because of class, and 'armor-piercing' is obvious, but what do the others do? Isn't a bullet just for making a hole? Why does it matter if it's a 'hollow point' bullet or a solid?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Well, I know it's weird to think about it this way, but sometimes your bullet is too good at making a hole. It goes right through so fast that it doesn't actually hurt much. So sometimes you need a bullet that makes a bigger hole."

Re:

[heromaniac]

"But... to get a bigger hole, wouldn't you have to go up a size? Use a bigger bullet? And then you would need a different gun."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Or you use one of these." Triela held up one of the hollow-points. "When they hit things they break apart and get bigger, so they make bigger holes."

[heromaniac]

Momoko blinked at the bullet. "Wow. I know guns are dangerous and I don't take them lightly, but that is really a cool concept - like a blooming flower! So they can be made of different materials to get different effects, but some bullets also just do different things." She rubbed her forehead and gave a weak smile. "I feel so stupid, not knowing all of this already."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Hey, don't. It took years for anyone to figure this stuff out."