>Blaster scopes are always off to the side so you can use

>>30978391
Really niga?

>>30978396
Clearly you haven't been on /k/ long enough to have witnessed a 300 post long Star Wars RP thread. This is nothing.

>>30978391
>1970s movie prop
>Thoughtfully designed

Pick one.

>>30978434
Let me dream pls

>>30978391
Ask again when a new blaster thread starts up.

>>30978391
It's so that when you make a reproduction with a firing broomhandle, you can still be 100% accurate to the prop and load it with stripper clips.

Real reason though was that Mauser was once in a different film and was cut down to be used in starwars, iirc the side mounted scope was a remnant of its original configuration as an actual gun before becoming a blaster

They shot blanks while filming Star Wars so the special effects guys would kniw when to put in pews and lasers. The scope is probably offset for easier loading, since broomhandles are loaded from the top with stripper clips.

It's a real fucking scope mount that had to be offset to be able to load the gun with stripper clips.

Besides, the barrel assembly and slide recoils slightly on a broomhandle, so you wouldn't want to mount anything up there.

>>30978391
It's like a scout rifle but in pistol form. Actually interesting they would think to do that.

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>>30978817
I found a pic of the original prop, you ca kinda make out the scope mount and the scope in the background. It was used by Sinatra in the film "the Naked Runner".