Breach Loading Pipe Musket

[Oroborus15]

Fallout 4 has pipe weapons but they're a but lacking, requiring actual ammunition and actually functioning as worse versions of any other weapon. These are supposed to be the improvised tools of people creative enough to use pipe clamps and bolts to build a semi-serviceable automatic weapon that fires modern ammo.

 

Does Bethesda expect us to believe that someone wouldn't just mix a bunch of fertilizer, a lead ball, and a thick walled pipe? AKA go back to the Old Revolutionary war era tech? But considering the skills they demonstrate at least give them credit for Civil War era weapons, like the Sharps rifle.

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The biggest counter point would be that primitive weapons have lower muzzle velocities, and are therefor weaker. HOWEVER they knew that back then and that's why the basic infantry weapon from those times could be between .60 and .75 caliber, sizes that would break your arm if fired with similar powder loads today. SO, Could someone creative make a single shot, lever action, breach loaded rifle with similar or slightly higher damage to a hunting rifle that uses ammo made at a Chemistry station that is in the .60 to .75 caliber range? Said rifle would have to be in the Pipe family and not be compatible with any silencers, with possible shotgun ammo variants (idk if an alternative receiver would make that easier, my only alternative ammo experience is from FNV).

[chanster131313]

someone Make This Playable

[nexbil01]

I think someone once did a musket model as a modders resource but that's as far as it went.

 

Of course fallout 76 has blackpowder guns