GURPS Stats

Comparing four common thirty caliber hunting guns in GURPS.

 

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Lever guns get a slight edge in rate of fire.

They all weigh about the same and have similar capacities.

.30-30 lags in damage, but it's sufficient to snuff the white tailed hoof-rat.  Or for social purposes.

We had a player who was a little slow and not making the transition from medieval fantasy to cliff-hangers pulp and only knew about one gun.

The AK-47.

We explained to him that the .30-30 was very similar in damage and range to the AK, just slower shooting and lower capacity.

He equipped every character from then on with a Winchester '94 if such was available.

It never failed him.

Of course, back then, I'd have never had made stats for a Savage 99 and .300 Savage.

Except for that one player, they'd have never taken a lever gun, or even a hunting rifle adventuring.

.30-06 was already done, as was 8mm Mauser.  All I had to make for them were 7.65x53mm and 7x57mm Mauser, for resupply purposes in South America.