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Originally Posted by jester
Targr, how do you get around the cook off problem though?
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Originally Posted by swaghauler
Full brass cartridges act as "heat sinks" drawing a great deal of the heat out of the weapon with them. The brass alone would probably solve the problem (thanks to the lower rate of fire from these guns).
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Exactly. The H&K CAWS had a number of features that would've reduced the risk of cook-offs. These included the use of brass cartridges as standard (although it could use lower-powered conventional shotgun rounds as well); it only had a magazine capacity of 10 and the rate of fire was very slow compared to a conventional machine gun or assault rifle; it had a hybrid cycling system using a moving barrel, combined with a secondary gas assist to help it cycle when using lower-powered rounds, so it would have had similar cooling advantages to an open-bolt system.