So I was looking at a Walther P38 in SolidWorks the other week, and it has this piece of metal that sticks out just above the hammer and it is known as the "cartridge indicator"
It is spring loaded and it seems as though when the slide resets and brings a bullet into the chamber, the Cartridge Indicator presses up against the bullet in the chamber, and it will stick out further over the hammer if there is a bullet in the chamber. It is spring loaded, so when there is no bullet, it sits further inside the gun, indicating there is no bullet.
I bring this up because I thought it looked interestingly a lot like the Two Yellow Dots on the back of the M6-Series in Halo, and I thought that perhaps they might be one and the same even though the M6 has two spots in the back rather than just the 1 that the P38 had.
Anyways, I'm not sure if you are a gun expert, but you are definitely a prop expert, so I didn't know if you might know anything about it, but I certainly wanted to ask and see if you thought that those yellow dots on the back might actually serve a purpose as being a cartridge indicator.
I've been considering on trying to make a non-firing M6G/H prop replica that has all the moving parts associated with an actual firearm which is why I am curious.
I might make it fire airsoft pellets, but I want to get the other things worked out first.
I would guess that the M6 is a Double Action since we can't ever see the hammer.
