Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 18:29:15 -0500
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Subject: [SW-RPG] STATS:  (News) Slug Shotgun
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                             Men at Arms Datalog
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    A HoloNews datalog serving Mercs, Hunters, Soldiers and Weapons Experts
throughout the Empire
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    GalacticDate - 35.2.10

    ------------------------------------------ Volume CCXXIX Number 43a

        Those of us who venture into the brush have come to realy on the
SurvivaTec name for the best in survival equipment and slug throwers.  They
have recently reintroduced thier SG-17 projectile "shotgun", after nearly a
century.  A good, solid design that has been proven over the centuries in
it's most basic form, the SG-17 uses a gas blowback system that helps to
retard the significant recoil of this mighty weapon.  Using hefty 18.5x70mm
shells, the SG-17 feeds from a seven round box magazine, and can be used
with a great selection of ammunition.
        When asked by Men at Arms why the SG-17 is returning to production,
SurvivaTec responded:  "The Empire and local goverments are regulating
blasters out of the reach of the average citizen.  In the meantime, street
crime is on the rise, creating a need for protection by the common citizen.
While a little too big to be carrying around town, the SG-17 is very well
suited for shop and home security, along with meat hunting and sport
shooting.  For worlds that have forced the citizenry into owning a limited
number of weapons, the SG-17 is capable of handling almost any shooting need
at a relatively low cost."

        There is no doubt about it- the SG-17 can handle almost anything.
Over the past four months, I've been borrowing one for evalution.  The
detachable box magazine is a real plus, as it allowed me to swap between
ammunition types in a second.  The fine shot loads were found to be just the
thing for hunting small game and birds for the camp pot, while the heavier
shot load was just the ticket for large game hunting in close country.  For
home defense, it would be the prefered load, based off an incident we had.
While on Bothawui, I was ambushed by a Skar'kla.  The heavy shot load caught
the beast in the chest, and flung it back about a meter and a half, with a
plate sized hole clean through it.  That is one dead piece of meat.
        The saboted slugs are little more than the bullets for their SR-14
rifle and SC-14 carbine, encased in a plasitc hull that falls away when it
leaves the muzzle.  Due to the design on the hull, the bullet has a spin
added to it, makeing a SG-17 the equal to the SC-14.  That came in handy for
some long range shots against bandits in the hills of Tatooine.  I don't
know who they were, but the SG-17 was producing one-shot kills out to 300m,
well past my blaster carbine armed comrades.  The flare rounds proved useful
for illuminating the area around our camp that night and signaling the air
shuttle that the nearest moisture farm sent out in answer to our distress
calls, allowing us to evacuate our wounded guide.
        In Mos Eisley awaiting my ride home, one of the old timers in a
cantina showed me a nastly little modification to make to the shells, that
he called a "ring shot", that causes the shot to stay within a capsule of
case metal as a solid slug, which then opens up insdie of your target.  When
he showed me how it worked, the resulting round reduced a stray womp rat to
a bag packed full of red mush that used to be internal organs.  SurvivaTec
DOES NOT recommend this, nor will their warrenty cover any damage to the
weapon or shooter that results from this.  Nor will they accept these
modified cases.  But it makes one hell of a mess.

         From a more technical point of view, the SG-17 is a fast pointing,
light weight, versatile piece of equipment.  The furnature is the standerd,
black synthetic compound.  It actually is meant to be sighted in two ways:
there is a notch sight to the rear of the barrel, with a self-luminecent
bead inserted into the front blade.  Using the bead alone is the fastest and
best way to acquire fast moving and airborne targets, while the bead and
notch together provide an effective, if somewhat rustic sight picture.  The
sample we had had only one failure to fire, and five failures eject or feed,
in over five thousand rounds of ammunition.  These last were all caused by
lack of cleaning during prolonged shooting sessions, while the failure to
fire impacted the primer with insufficent force to ignite it at first, but a
second pull of the trigger worked just fine.  The metal is covered in a
hard, grey-black composite finish that should prove to be resistant to all
but the strongest acids, and eliminates the need for internal lubrication.
        The use of the explosive propellent does mean that it kicks harder
and speaks louder than the partical-acclerant technology of the common
blaster, but it was not overly uncomfortable.  Actually, it reminded you
that you are using a very powerful weapon, and gave our test users
reasurance that it would be effective against whatever they might be
shooting at.  The shells were ejected forcefully to the right, moving well
clear of the weapon as the action fed the next shell into the firing
chamber.  The magazine release in located directly infront of the trigger
gaurd, and is ambidexterous in nature, allowing most shooters to conviently
eject the magazines with thier trigger digit.  The mechanical safety is
located IN the trigger gaurd itself, allowing the shooter to snap it off in
a heartbeat if needed.  Of all our testers, only a Aqaulish had difficulty.
Everyone else on our staff who tested it enjoyed it emensly, and a few even
asked to buy it off of the company.  They are going to have to wait, as I am
now the proud owner of out test gun.
        While larger than a E-11, it is not to large to be used in most
urban dwellings and carried in most land and airspeeders, so it should
fulfill the origional intents of the manufacturer well.  While more
expensive than most blasters to feed, it should be noted that the metal
shell cases can be traded in at any authorised SurvivaTec dealer at a rate
of 1cr off the cost of a box of shells per case turned in.  SurvivaTec also
intends to market the equipment and components to reload these hulls in the
near future, pending Imperial approval.  For these reasons, it should be
popular with folks living on the frontier and on worlds were energy weapon
permits are scarcer than bantha fangs.  There is even a rumor that the
Imperial Storm Legions are evaluating the SG-17 and it's brother SR-14 for
use in hard radiation zones.


This has been Maj. Johan Starfire reporting for MaAD"
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          Warning: The above documetn has a SCARLET rating from IBC
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GM Scoop...
    Campaign Timeline: about a year pre-Yavin
    Campaign InBrief:  This is a slug shotgun for all of you who asked for one.
    About the Article:

        STATS:

SurvivaTec SG-17
       model: SurvivaTec SG-17A5 18.5x70mm semiautomatic slug shotgun
        type: semiautomatic shotgun
        skill: Firearms: shotgun
        availability: 3 F,R
        cost: 600 (for the shotgun), 45 (empty mags),  shells vary by type
        range: varies by type
        ammo: 7 (detachable box)
        damage:  Birdshot:  damage by range, 4D/3D/2D (3-6/15/25 range), +1
to hit at short range, +1D to hit at medium range, +2D to hit at long range.
40cr/20 shells
          Buckshot: damage by range, 5D+2/5D/4D  (3-6/15/25 range), +1 to
hit at short range, +1D to hit at medium range, +2D to hit at long range.
50cr/20 shells
          Soft shot:  damage by range, 4D/3D/2D Stun  (3-6/15/25 range; does
3D leathal damage at point-blank range), +1 to hit at short range, +1D to
hit at medium range, +2D to hit at long range.  50cr/20 shells
          Flares:  Climbs to 300m.  Available in white, red and green, both
bursting and illuminating types.  40cr/10 shells.
          Sabot slugs:  Range: 3-20/60/400 (+5 difficulty to hit past 100m,
+10 tohit past 200m, +20 to hit past 300m).  Damage and cost by type:
                Ball: 5D  (45cr/20 shells)
                Expanding: 6D to soft targets, 4D to hard or non-Character
scale targets (47cr/20 shells)
                Explosive: 6D against hard and non-character scale targets,
5D against soft, charcter scale targets (60cr/20shells, availability 3 R,X
                Tracer: 4D+2, leaves illuminated trail over path of bullet
(30cr/10 shells)

Notes on the manufacture of "ring shot" loads:
requires:
        birdshot shells
        vibroknife
difficulty:  Easy Firearms Repair  (basically, you are cutting through the
case at teh base of the shot column, except for a small bit or two).  The
wild die rolls a "1" during manufacture the round is destroyed and rendered
worthless for anything but components.
Range: 3-7/20/70
damage: 6D, improve the value of any armour on the target by 50%
note: If the Wild Die rolls a "1" during firing, the SG-17 jams, requiring a
round to clear.




OK, ya'll've seen the new configuration for my briefings.  Feed back needed.

Suggested placement:  EQUIPMENT.shotgun.txt

Kevn Dole
kdole@plainfield.bypass.com
Eat hot plasma, Imperial Scum!!  (Am I the only person who has ever wanted
to stand up and shout that in the middle of a firefight?)