They're fascinating from an engineering point of view but they have entirely too much going on for serious use. They're also very heavy.
Sometimes it's best to limit the user's options rather than expanding them.
Okie John
“The reliability of the 30-06 on most of the world’s non-dangerous game is so well established as to be beyond intelligent dispute.” Finn Aagaard
"Don't fuck with it" seems to prevent the vast majority of reported issues." BehindBlueI's
One of the Call of Duty games allowed you to choose a smiley face reticle on your character’s red dot. I kinda wish a legit optic manufacturer would make a red dot with a 65 MOA circle smiley with the nose as a 3 MOA nose aiming point, even though in my heart of hearts I know it would look really bad to the jury 🙂
I own one
Remember when Homer Simpson designed that car with the separate bubble for the kids and it turned into an overly-complicated, uber-expensive shitty car? I think Homer visited Franchi’s engineers in the 70’s:
“Let’s make it convertible so the user can shoot lethal AND less-lethal out of the same gun!”
“Let’s put a horribly designed, fragile rubber buffer in the receiver! And another fragile buffer in the folding stock!”
“TWO safeties must be better than one! Let’s design it so one will eventually fail and it will drop the hammer when it does so!”
“Reloads?? Let’s make them push and hold a button in a very awkward location in order to open the gate and load shells. ‘It keeps the mud out.’”
“Let’s make a ghost ring sight where you line the front post up with the BOTTOM of the non-adjustable ghost ring and hits should be somewhere in the middle!”
“Single-handed 12 gauge?! Fuck yeah!”
“Oh, you don’t want the grip safety? Fine. We’ll just stick a fragile plug in the hole.”
“Good luck manually pumping this bitch!”
That being said, I’ll never sell mine. Because Muldoon.
“The reliability of the 30-06 on most of the world’s non-dangerous game is so well established as to be beyond intelligent dispute.” Finn Aagaard
"Don't fuck with it" seems to prevent the vast majority of reported issues." BehindBlueI's
I handled a SPAS-12 at a gunshop one time, and it too me and two counter clerks to figure out how to make things go.
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI