Would different "types" of phasers make sense?

[XCV330]

Instinctive Point Shooting is a IRL Shooting Technique where you're not aiming directly with the provided sites on the gun.

Some called it "Hip Shooting" or "Shooting from the Hip".

It does happen, but it's not recommended for distances larger than your typical room in side a building.

Phasers can have sites placed on them if they wanted to.
ST:ENT showed what happens when you modernize, you can even have retractable scopes.

I'm aware of point shooting. I've known some people into cowboy action shooting, that can manage it. I wasn't taught to do it, and wasting expensive ammo at the range trying to learn to be Yosemite Sam didn't interest me. They generally use very underpowered rounds (mouse farts) to do it, so that jives with beam weapons, but its hardly the best case scenario, nor was it ever the prime method. There's a reason even early Colts had a rudimentary sight. People used them. Belly guns like derringers and pepperboxes didn't need them, as they were basically made for contact range.

The dust busters do have a natural holding posture. The more I think about it, they more they kind of make sense.


edited to add: the amount of time it takes to draw, aim, and shoot takes so little time to someone trained to do it, that drawing from the hip and hoping that you hit something just doesn't make sense. it looked great on old westerns, and that's probably why it was done on TOS.

 

[DSG2k]

That might as well be a mini turret mounted on the end of a muzzle since you want it to point off bore axis for you.

Like this?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Belly guns like derringers and pepperboxes didn't need them, as they were basically made for contact range.

Belly Guns are a seperate weapon category from Derringers & PepperBoxes.

Spoiler: Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail - Buckle Pistol

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Roberta's Belt Buckle or "Belly Gun" was a 3-shot Derringer Style Pistol disguised as a standard Belt Buckle.
It's based off a real life version of that weapon, but used in the "Black Lagoon OVA: Roberta's Blood Trail".

Derringers & PepperBoxes are meant for CQB/CQC distances only, they aren't really useful for ranges greater than that.

Nothing beats Meryl Stryfe's use of Derringers from the TRIGUN Anime.
She has 50x Derringers hidden underneath her giant coat.

The dust busters do have a natural holding posture. The more I think about it, they more they kind of make sense.

The Dust Buster phasers would've made for a good Hybrid "Phaser Blaster/Saber".
Have one Emitter for the Super Long Beam Blade and the other for a standard Phaser Pistol.
You could easily get a 2-in-1 weapon.

Like this?

The end result is what is shown.

The way I would've done it was with a Ball Turret mounted on the end that can swivel as needed via Computer Aided Aiming.