sorry people and Gartley if I sounded a little harsh there
I am just as excited about this project as anyone and really am looking forward to a release.
I personally don't think a scope would fit this particular model of 357, plus I know from experience how much of a pain in the *** it is to implement, especially for your first time out.
I agree that the loading should be one at a time though, as if you did that, you could keep the power. A 357 is a very powerful handgun and it would be such a shame to see it reduced to 9mm status for the sake of balancing.
However having a longer reload time would even it out and make sure people savour each bullet, knowing how much power could be delivered from each shot.
Animation tip.........
Have a look at the reload on the shotgun and you will see that you can swap the link of the hand from the weapon to the shell.
This will make the reloading bullet by bullet a lot easier as you only have to animate the bullet and the hand will follow.
Also, you could make it like the hunting shotgun and not allow reloading untill all of the bullets have been expended. This will allow you to have just one animation for reload.