I'd personally rather have a single action, and thus the Hi-Power. I think a .45 might have been a better choice all in all... bigger hunk of silver at a slower velocity, after all you -WANT- the bullet to lodge, in that case.
I got a mild rolling-eyes laugh at Steakley's description of the gun as an "automatic revolver" at one point, heh heh... I've actually seen such an animal, in ads in gun rags, but I have to wonder what niche it fills. Not to mention whether or not it actually works. EDIT: Of course, I totally forget there's also the Webley-Fosberry, which does work, but its utility is still a deabatable matter...

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>I got a mild rolling-eyes laugh at Steakley's description of the gun
>as an "automatic revolver" at one point, heh heh... I've actually seen
>such an animal, in ads in gun rags, but I have to wonder what niche it
>fills. Not to mention whether or not it actually works. EDIT: Of

Ah yes, the Mateba auto-revolver. It's actually a pretty nifty design. I'm not sure that the self-cocking action has any particular usefulness, other than making every shot after the first one single-action (which is handy if you hate the DA trigger pull), but it has a cople of other spiffy features. I'm especially fond of the fact that the barrel is aligned with the bottom chamber rather than the top one. Brings the line of the barrel closer to the line of the forearm, which reduces muzzle flip.

Togusa has one in Ghost in the Shell.

>course, I totally forget there's also the Webley-Fosberry, which does
>work, but its utility is still a deabatable matter...

Well, it seemed like a good idea to Mr. Fosbery. Keep in mind that when it was made, automatics as we know them today were rare and very expensive, and most of them didn't work very well. The idea was that people would like the convenience of the automatic's self-cocking action combined with the reliability and familiarity of the Webley top-break revolver. In practice it didn't sell very well, but hey, it makes for a nifty relic now, and there were a few people who swore by them.

While I'm pointing out anime connections, Inaho has one of these in Master of Mosquiton.

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I still don't have any idea what the context of this is (or who Felix is), but I have to take umbrage at that comment. The Hi-Power is one of my favorite pieces. It was John Browning's last design, the final evolution of the single-action auto he'd been refining all his working life, and I think it's quite lovely as old-fashioned autos go. And it's certainly not cheap. Fabrique Nationale, the Belgian arms manufacturer that builds them, are quite well-respected in their field.

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The name of the author is John Steackley.

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Steakley. Also wrote _Armor_, which also has a Jack Crow that is no other Jack Crow, and a Felix that is no other Felix (read the inside title page for _Vampire$_). His father used to own Steakley Chevrolet here in Dallas, and Steakley himself lives in the D-FW area.

I think that Felix chose the Hi-Power because it was something that he could get ahold of quickly and cheaply. I got the impression that Felix didn't like guns, and was prone to throw them away in fits of self-loathing, only to need one at a later date.

Gryphon, if you haven't read _Vampire$_, I heartily recommend it. It's very good.

Personally, BTW, my favorite piece would be the LeMat Revolver. Small caliber, admittedly (.32), but it carries nine of them, and a 16 ga. shotgun shell to boot. And it's not much larger than a .45 Peacemaker. Only screen reference that I've found of one is the gun carried by Bruce Willis in the scene in "12 Monkeys."

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Huh. THe same kind of design as Vash's revolver? Interesting. I'd actually never seen one like that (but I'm not as big a gun nut as I used to be).

Never liked shooting revolvers much, always kept giving me this 'yank' feeling.

(obscure weirdness note: my Nomad Jukebox just started playing 'H.T.', the Trigun theme. and went into 'Flash'. Either it's sentient or my subconcious telekinesis is working again.)

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>>I have a question for you, Since technically You are the Copywrite
>>holders of British-AnimeTech Limited and there for all items with said
>>logo have to pass accross your desks at some point and time.
>
>Hmm... you know, all these years I've been using that fictional
>company name (originally it was the company that my Marvel Super
>Heroes character started up as a tax shelter for the production
>facilities for his power-armor gear and supervehicles after he moved
>to England :), and I never designed a logo for it.
>
>I s'pose it's all right with me, as long as you don't sell them or
>anything lame like that.
>
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>Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/