Costom Bullets!

[Guest]

I think dayz standalone should have customizable bullets. like say you have some bullets and you want them to be FMJ bullets you get some scrap metal and

the bullet/magazine and craft them together then bam there is an  FMJ bullet. or you could make poison bullets get poison of choice and combined it with the

bullet and it would slowly kill the victim unless he has something to stop the poison or some poisons could have a blur effect on the victim so the can barely

see. tell me what you guys think about the idea of custom bullets!!!!!!!

[Hosty 647]

Bullets don't work that way...

 

But I think this would work a bit better with shotgun shells? I saw quite a few videos with custom pellets and whatnot inside the shells.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Hosty

[applejaxc 2500]

*custom

 

Anyway: You clearly don't know how firearms work. Full Metal Jacketed rounds aren't bullets with extra metal on the end.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Applejaxc

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

You can't just take some pieces of metal and add them to a bullet to make them FMJ, and if you could, you couldn't do it in the field with random pieces of metal.

 

I'm no expert (and am asking the experts in this case), but could you make a hollow point from a round nose bullet by carving a bit of the lead in in the tip away?

 

I'm also not sure that poisoning the tip of a bullet would work either.  I've heard rumors that enemy soldiers (of the US, forget which war) used to smear the tips of their bullets in shit to spread infection in survivors (this might have just been propaganda to dehumanize the enemy).  And unless you're sniping, shooting someone with a poisoned bullet (assuming it works) would probably be more dangerous for you, especially if you just wait for the poison to take effect.  An arrow/bolt might be a better choice for poisoning a player.

[stielhandgranate 480]

Hey, regular ammo is FMJ, go back to playing cowadoody. Armor piercing ammo in small arms is made with Tungsten, Hardened Steel or Teflon, such materials are hard to melt down with simple tools. Also the military experimented with poising munitions with anthrax in the cold war and found that the heat of the round would render the materials used inert.

[TomJeff 12]

You can't just take some pieces of metal and add them to a bullet to make them FMJ, and if you could, you couldn't do it in the field with random pieces of metal.

 

I'm no expert (and am asking the experts in this case), but could you make a hollow point from a round nose bullet by carving a bit of the lead in in the tip away?

 

I'm also not sure that poisoning the tip of a bullet would work either.  I've heard rumors that enemy soldiers (of the US, forget which war) used to smear the tips of their bullets in shit to spread infection in survivors (this might have just been propaganda to dehumanize the enemy).  And unless you're sniping, shooting someone with a poisoned bullet (assuming it works) would probably be more dangerous for you, especially if you just wait for the poison to take effect.  An arrow/bolt might be a better choice for poisoning a player.

 

 

In theory, and you can find this online, you CAN make a bullet from FMJ to "slightly more horrible wounding" by cutting off the tip and maybe also drilling in a cavity. HOWEVER, this would likely affect trajectory and would not be optimal in reducing penetration.

 

What absolutely DOES work, however, are "cut shells" shotgun shells. Which CAN be made in the field. Basically you take a pellet shell, and make a specific cut in the plastic wad. This causes the pellets to bunch up and deliver their impact very much like a comparable weight slug. You can look this up.

 

Aside from cut shells, FMJ/Hollow Point should be separate ammo types that are only looted, not crafted.

[IkaikaKekai 1957]

In theory, and you can find this online, you CAN make a bullet from FMJ to "slightly more horrible wounding" by cutting off the tip and maybe also drilling in a cavity. HOWEVER, this would likely affect trajectory and would not be optimal in reducing penetration.

 

What absolutely DOES work, however, are "cut shells" shotgun shells. Which CAN be made in the field. Basically you take a pellet shell, and make a specific cut in the plastic wad. This causes the pellets to bunch up and deliver their impact very much like a comparable weight slug. You can look this up.

 

Aside from cut shells, FMJ/Hollow Point should be separate ammo types that are only looted, not crafted.

Yes, I've seen quite a few cut shell vids, would be a nice addition to the Standalone, as well as hand loaded shotgun shells (rocksalt and washers/bolts come to mind).

[morrow 19]

Well the problem with FMJ rounds are that they are just that FULL Metal Jackets, that means covered in Copper around the whole thing, now this is good for body armor but very bad for flesh only, it leaves a clean hole, hollow pints on the other hand expand in somewhat of a mushroom pattern "exploding" on impact of the target and causing major internal hemorrhaging usually only one good hit would put down even the toughest man on earth, or a bear, I like bears.

[applejaxc 2500]

 

 

I'm no expert (and am asking the experts in this case), but could you make a hollow point from a round nose bullet by carving a bit of the lead in in the tip away?

 

 

It's largely illegal (or maybe just frowned upon, I'm not sure) by Geneva Convention rules, but yes, you can use a rock/knife to notch holes in the end of bullets to mimic hollow point rounds. This was very common practice in WW2/Korea/Vietnam.