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Originally Posted by Jazhara7
Ah, well. I was trying to figure out which specific pistol the .223 pistol in Fallout was based on... (most of them are fictional, but some of them, like this one, was at least based on a real one. And the Desert Eagle is kind of obvious, of course.)
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.223 is, obviously, marginally bigger than .222, which is .22 caliber. I've fired guns that are chambered for very small .22 rounds, and it's got absolutely no punch. Doesn't even have recoil, and firing it, you'd think you were popping a balloon. .222, on the other hand, is the same round that the M-16 is chambered for, for example, and it's a big cartridge. A huge (well, relatively so to the small projectile) load, and it'll rip a guy's arm off, practically. So a .223 isn't the sort of round a pistol would fire. Of course, the Fallout series isn't exactly grounded in reality.
Even the Desert Eagle fires smaller catridges. It fires .50 AE, yes, but even that round is pretty short. It's nothing like what, say, an M-2 Browing, or Barret fires.