>A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which usually discharges numerous small pellet-like spherical sub-projectiles called shot, or sometimes a single solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns are most commonly smoothbore firearms, meaning that their gun barrels have no rifling on the inner wall, but rifled barrels for shooting slugs (slug barrels) are also available.
The shotgun is thought of as being an extremely basic firearm but it is also very versatile and powerful. It can shoot loads that allow you to hunt small game, large game, from birdshot to buckshot, to even rifled slugs that basically turn your shotgun into a rifle, also works good for home defense and even military applications (think WW1 trench guns).
People have a misleading sense of how much spread shotguns have especially in video games where they magically become ineffective after 10 feet meanwhile in real life hunters regularly kill animals with buckshot at far greater distances.
>>3451I think their use is considered a war crime
They're not called trench sweepers for nothing
>>3451yes, the US marines often use something like a Benelli M4 or Mossberg 500/590, and if not that they have a shotgun attachment to their assault rifle like a M26 MASS
>>3453A slug out of a rifled barrel can be accurate up to like 200 yards. Even basic buckshot can reach like 40 yards.
Plus there are the meme lords (ex: 'heavy hitter' explosive slugs).
If ur brokie like me, consider the Mossberg Maverick 88, its 200-300 USD
Here's a test of it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OL7IquoIo&t=1042s>>3510true
>>3509is that why burgers so often catch a stray while sleeping?
>>3509iirc many bullets will literally start to break up after hitting a single sheet of drywall. I don't think what anon is claiming is accurate
t. vague rememberer
Refilling a shell
>The video does not show the exact parameters and names of the components. This is not a tutorial for making shotgun shells, it is a reconstruction of a museum rarity.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAOoIrHdJ4Q Video is by Drobashevich a Russian Shotgun channel
https://www.youtube.com/@DROBASHEVICH>>5662In combat situations, they are used for clearing out trenches and rooms with buckshot.
It was also used for anti-drone and close-quarter battle situations.
But, yeah, they are not very useful in combat; they are only useful in specific situations.
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