Welp I've basically given up if Im searching here.
I've been searching for years all across the internet for a explanation of HOW THE FUCK DOES A BOLTER WORK!? NO SOURCE IS CLEAR EVER NOT THE 40K WIKI NOT 1D4CHAN NOT THE BOOKS THEMSELVES NOT EVEN THE CREATORS OF 40K ARE FUCKING CLEAR I'VE BEEN FASCINATED FOR YEARS BY THIS FUCKING MARVEL OF A WEAPON TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW IT FUCKING WORKS BUT NOOOOOOOO THERE HAS TO BE A BUNCH OF FUCKING ARGUMENTS AND THEORIES AND PEOPLE SAYING "ITS JUST COMPENSATION" EVERYWHERE! SO CAN SOMEONE ANYONE HERE GIVE ME 1 FUCKING CLEAR ANSWER TO THIS! How does a default Bolter work.
Fucking Bolters
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Parker Morales
You pull the trigger, a bolt shoots out and kills the xeno scum.
Angel James
It's just compensation.
Caleb Scott
The hammer, or a similar method of igniting the primer such as electricity, sets off the primer, which causes a low explosive to start burning. The expansion of hot gasses produced by this burning separates the bullet from the rest of the round, and because the reaction is trapped in a chamber, the rapidly expanding gasses push the bullet down the path of least resistance, down the barrel, until the bullet leaves the barrel's aperture.
Automatic weapons usually use some of the force from these expanding gasses in various ways to push the action back and begin the process of chambering another round to be fired as soon as the action has completed the process of placing a round in the chamber and readying the system of primer ignition.
Jack Martinez
All of this OP
Thomas Allen
Bolter are two stage weapons that combine the effects of traditional weapons with gyrojet.
It first shoots the bullet like your typical AR-15, hammer against primer, primer goes boom, powder goes bigger boom, bullet goes fooosh. Well, that was easy.
Now comes the hard part. When it leaves the barrel, the jet inside the projectile ignitiates, like a rocket. This way the bullet keeps acelarating, increasing the distance it travels on a "straigh line" as it stabilizes the bullet and compensates the fall.
When it impacts it penetrates the objective due to the strength of the thing. On the tip there is a delayed impact fuse. This makes sure the projectile explodes INSIDE the objective and not on the armor. It's nasty.
Colton White
you shoot the bullet, cry about your small peepee, and get eaten by tyranids who topple the imperium
Nolan Johnson
Meant for OP not
Dominic Jones
Hey OP this one makes sense
Noah Phillips
Why didn't they eat the bones?