loud frigate
If you like nice lever guns and don't like tracking, this is for you
Right, seeming that we've gotten a number of Lever Action rifle in last while I reckon we need a sleek, powerful, non-disappointing lever action rifle, and my suggestion is a rifle based of off the Rossi R95 in .444 Marlin
Slight issue
Whilst thinking about this I cam across an issue. The .444 is essentially an elongated .44 Magnum which is the 'balistic equivalent' of the .45-70, so the issue is that in game the .44 Magnum lever rifle shoots ammunition that can penetrate clean through a moose from 150m with a front on shot where the .45-70 can barely break a broadside Longshot at that distance. My point to this rant is should the .444 be terrible like the .45-70 assuming EW never fixes .45-70 or should it be better than .44 Mag because it uses the same bullets but shoots them faster (velocity exponentially increases the energy of a bullet) ? Either way I think the balistics of all weapons in game needs an overhaul.
Anyways more about the rifle and caliber itself.
The rifle I think it should be based on is the Rossi R95 with a 20' barrel with a 6 round magazine capacity. This rifle could take any of the scope tipes the Moradi or lapierre can.
As for .444 itself, it's a very powerful round able to take dangerous game but it's also comparatively flat shooting so I think the rifle firing .444 should have Zero distances of 75m, 150m, 200m with an effective range of 250m
The .444 should have polymertip bullets and flatnose hard casts, but I won't give stat suggestions as a result of the above mentioned issue, but i will say weapon classes should be somewhere between 3-9
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