[Mäx]

Sounds cool, do you mind if I snag that and post it on my website to share with my players? I'll credit you.

Go ahead.
Great if someone gets use out of it, don't actually get to use any of my custom gear stuff myself, as i dont have a game.

[Mason]

Thank you!  XD

[Crash_00]

Um, not quite... Although musket calibers ranged from 0.5 inches (13 mm) to 0.8 inches (20 mm), handguns of the era used much smaller calibers.

Dealing with old flintlock pistols, the most common I've seen were .45 and .54, but after that came those in the .62 to .65 range. Some of the bigger ones ranged from .75 to .85. Of course that has nothing to do with a modern cartridge, but just wanted to point out that many pistols were designed to fire the same ball as the owner's musket to make carrying both easier (carrying one pouch of shot is much easier than carrying two, those things get heavy).

[KarmaInferno]

This was possible because of a separated powder charge.

And of course black powder has a lot lower power than modern propellant.


-k

[Crash_00]

Oh I wasn't supporting the idea of a modern .79 pistol that uses rifle rounds (although theoretically I guess a .79 pistol round could be developed, it would just have the ballistics of a brick past a few dozen yards and only do roughly what a shotgun slug does), I was just pointing out that flintlocks did exist in those calibers. Though, those pistols were best used as clubs the accuracy was so horrible. The smaller caliber pistols were generally far far more accurate.

[Ajax]

You might also be confussing the caliber of the bore with the caliber of the ball fired; prior to the invention of the Minnie Ball, most flint-, match- and wheellocks fired projectiles a good bit smaller than the bore. Anyhoo, doesn't really change the point that a .79 caliber pistol would be all sorts of bad.

[CanRay]

Would it shoot through schools?

[TheWanderingJewels]

really wanting that Warhammer 40K Bolt Pistol are we?

[Ajax]

really wanting that Warhammer 40K Bolt Pistol are we?

The boltgun is only a .75 caliber weapon. 

[Medea]

If all else fails for practicality's sake, it would probably make on hell of a thrown weapon.  BONK!  THUD!

[Inconnu]

Which? The gun or the bullet?

Either way, +1! Or 2 if i remember.