alot of your feeding ideas for repeaters have already been done, side to side(staggered) for pistols, montgomery ward used to make, and browning still does a autoloading .22 wich feed through the stock, nearly all lever guns are under the barrel. Electronic ignition is starting to happen. Alot of your ideas are good for range or target guns, but the way i think is that electronic anything is unreliable in the field for hunting, if my auto programing scope messed up and decide to to shoot a 220 grain load instead of the 150 i would be sol. water and electricy dont go good together no matter how much sealing is done, it will fail evenuatly then ur outa luck. Browning machine guns and many other guns in world war two and plenty of machine guns today are "tape fed" ,but the small arms that were fed by a stripper clip were often a pain, and very cumbersome so the idea went away. hight pressure explosive would need more steel, or space age materials to keep the gun from exploading, wich would either make it wiegh more or much more expensive. nice thinking tho, dont mean to put you down or anything, just my opinion on things

Edited by - bobgifford on 03/01/2002 18:14:58

Edited by - bobgifford on 03/01/2002 18:16:57