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I mean i'm even willing to ignore that and assume that by some magic condensed air helps bullet speed, i don't even have any problems of it breaking realism but even then, there's too many issues that follow. 😅 there's fine line between unrealistic and "it just won't work even if hell splits open". here just noticed another one looking at it - that iron on the back of the stock which is attached to the air pipe, would ruin that pipe from kickback.

Ok, as a gun enthusiast i HAVE to point this one out guys, since it's offence to anyone's intelligence who can google "how guns work". There were many more things that made me scoff with new guns but this one takes the cake - the rifle. It's so bad i couldn't not register and explain it why it's so bad. i'm not even talking about realism, i'm just talking about very basic concept art and common sense, gun knowledge that can be obtained in 10 minutes using google. i think modelers just made things that they thought looked cool and didn't even bothered to conceptualize actual use case of it. no matter how u look at it, this is one of the worst gun designs i've seen in my life. To put it lightly this one is absolutely never going to happen. what air tank even does here?! the gun clearly isn't pneumatic as it's shown via spring and even if it was pneumatic there's myriad of reasons that it wouldn't work. even if air was used to make bullet go faster, kinda mixture of spring and air, it still wouldn't work for several technical reasons: 1. pipe girth and angle that connects to the air tank is way high caliber 2.air tank is small, it would be good for max 3-5 shots and i'm being generous here. 2 replacing it would be horrible pain in the arse. but even if we ignore all of the above mentioned problems, main problem is that in postapocalyptic situation (or any situation for that matter) noone would sit, cutout very good (usually oak or english wallnut for very expensive rifles ) and stable stock of the rifle (ruining its integrity) to place air tank innit, strong, dependable, uncompromised stock for a rifle would be as expensive and rare in postapocalyptic situation, as gold. they would just place it on the side or on top of it (but it would be way safer to put stock between shooters face and air tank) just like this. that design is accident waiting to happen right in users face, after some use, elasticity of wood would either ruin or explode that tank regardless of iron frames that are holding it or in the case if wood was old and dry enough it would shatter and kickback might impale the shooter with shattered pointy wood. since this specific stock highly looks like oak, i'm assuming it's oak which has much stronger thickness and lesser elasticity, shattering stock scenario is more likely to happen. to put it in a scale of "that's not how guns or pressurized air works at all" from 1 to 10 i'd say it's -8. P.S. and good luck looking trough that scope with that air pipe sticking in your face. sitting with your chin on highly explosive pressurized air can. i just can't elaborate more on this, concept art committed harakiri right there. if i'll see this model fixed, my faith in humanity will be restored.