Smaller framed shooters, heck regular-sized shooters, can have trouble with the gun. The Fix — Training will be the best way to counter heavy shotgun recoil: training and properly selected ammunition. Take a class from Fisher, learn to run the gun and proper recoil mitigation techniques. Reduced recoil tactical loads deliver plenty of stopping performance and help cut down some of those home defense shotgun blues.
Your modern tactical shotgun holds anywhere from 4 to 7 rounds of 12 gauge 2. Admittedly the low ammo and slow reloads would only be a problem in the most extreme circumstances. You can reload a modernized rifle platform or a handgun anywhere from 3 to 10 times the capacity in moments.
The Fix — Learn the make your shots count and learn to reload with some gumption. Side saddles help, and lots of Snap Cap practice can shorten the gap. Longer than your standard carbine by a good bit.
Part of this is their barrel requirements, and the other part is the often longer stocks and longer receivers to accommodate shells as long as 3 inches. Hey guys, I wanted to make a quick diversion from our video series about double action semi-autos and go back to the topic of defensive shotguns for just a minute. Specifically, I want to address the issue of why or under what circumstances you would want to choose a shotgun for home defense instead of a handgun or a carbine.
The primary advantage of using a shotgun for self-defense is that it fires multiple projectiles every time you pull the trigger. This issue was addressed pretty well by Darryl Bolke in his article on shotgun myths that he wrote for our blog a couple of weeks ago.
At distances inside a home, buckshot is only going to spread a few inches. But because that pattern stays tight, the cumulative effect that cluster of pellets has on the target is devastating.
On top of that, any elemental shotgun receives no base damage penalty at all. There' also E-tech shotguns, which use weird alien technology to turn bullets into "stuff which ain't bullets. An E-Tech variant of a Torgue shotgun also shoots swords. Swords that explode , into other , smaller swords. Which also explode. It fires not one sword that explodes into three, but instead three that explode into three more each.
For no extra ammo cost. There's also the Flakker, the legendary Torgue shotgun, which can fire up to one hundred explosions , and is one of the most powerful weapons in the entire series. However, the nature of its spread makes it insanely difficult to use, and a lot of players tend to dismiss it as Awesome, but Impractical.
The Hyperion Pearlescent shotgun Butcher is a shoutout to its incarnation from the first Borderlands, and mixes a shotgun with a machine gun that randomly refills your clip, and that's saying nothing about the manufacturer's Legendary and Seraph tier shotguns. Oh baby The Skullmasher returns largely unchanged, save for one less pellet and each critical hit counting individually, making it a Game-Breaker for Zer0 with the Critical Ascensi0n skill.
Have fun shotty sniping! And if all this is not enough , there's one relic, the "Deputy's Badge", that increases damage and drastically decreases reload time up to by half! Shotguns are taken up another notch in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! B on the receiving end solid.
Shotguns have become more powerful in Borderlands 3 , especially Jakobs shotguns that rebound on crtical hit and damage nearby enemies and certain Torgue shotguns come with sticky gyrojet alt-fire so no enemy can escape. Downplayed with the Hyperion shotguns as they got nerfed in damage. In The Breach , the Spread upgrade turns your machine gun into a fully automatic shotgun. Completely averts the short-range part, it fires three machine gun rounds in a 90 degree angle one down the middle, one up, one down , which continue until they hit a wall, the edge of the screen, or a monster.
Buck Saturday Morning Cartoon Apocalypse : One of Buck's first weapons is a sawn-off shotgun that can hold two bullets. Except for the Alien reference in Crew Expendable: Gaz : pulling out a shotgun "I like to keep this for close encounters.
In El Goonish Shive , Raven packs a shotgun as a contingency when going out to deal with a giant boar. Powerful and angry, it adapts perfectly to her personality. Web Original. These show up so often in horror films its a running gag for Phelous to use a clip from Resident Evil declaring "I got a shotgun! In Linkara's Previously On segment for Secret Defenders 10 he turns around holding one dramatically and was probably about to say it.
He is interupted by Linkara, who says he can't go through with the sequence due to this episode being too important due to the integration of Gunslinger Theme. Also that Phelous was the only one he could afford. Yang Xiao Long's signature weapons in RWBY , the Ember Celica, are a cross between this trope and a Power Fist : twin gauntlets with built-in shotgun barrels that can also fire explosive rounds, or provide a Recoil Boost.
Western Animation. Subverted in The Intruder. TOM 1 attempts to use a laser shotgun against the title villain, which proves useless. In the first episode an Italian boy gives Captain Sparks a shotgun that belonged to his grandfather. It saves Sparks's life in the second episode, when his rifle jams, which allows a German soldier to leap into his foxhole.
Real Life. A common misconception about shotguns is that they rival or exceed rifles in the "power" department. Considering their gargantuan calibers, this seems obvious for example, the most common shotgun gauge , 12, is almost a cannon caliber by legal classification and exceeds that of the most powerful heavy machine guns.
On the other hand, these mega-blasters are widely available, mechanically simple and quite cheap, being the go-to firearm for a hunter on a budget for more than a century. This means that their action can be extremely simple, barrels can be made much thinner and of cheaper materials , and the ammunition is also very simple to manufacture, low-tolerance and cheap a shotgun barrel is surprisingly thin-walled, generally around 0.
The huge diameter of the barrel - i. But even a solid shotgun slug is much wider, quickly losing energy over distance and distributing energy over larger surface on a hit.
Shotguns enjoy significant advantages in wound-trauma over many other firearms even when gross muzzle-energy is similar. Most agencies at least in the US use 00 Buckshot due to greater availability, which will still inflict 9 wounds if all shot hits the target. Shot for shot this gives shotguns unrivaled wounding potential, allowing them to do with one trigger pull what a burst-firing assault rifle might need several to match.
This misconception does serve as one of the reasons that makes the firearm an attractive choice for home defense. As the thing is The Dreaded among firearms, the iconic sound of cocking the action and chambering a shell is enough to make most aggressors and home invaders turn tail and run for their lives. The combination of low pressure ammo, smooth barrel and large strong frame also gives shotguns a great advantage: they are practically deathless. Even after tens of thousands of rounds fired, they don't wear out.
In some cases, the wooden furniture wears down and has to be either restored or replaced, but the barrel and action are untouched. Ultimately, however, shotguns have very short effective ranges compared to rifles. While their range is similar to a submachine gun's, the sheer bulk of a shotgun's ammunition greatly limits how many rounds an operator can carry.
Additionally, shotgun cartridges, due to their rimmed design and plastic hulls, are known for not playing nice with box magazines. This results in a weapon that both allows less ammo to be carried and requires more time to reload when compared to the alternatives.
Finally, be it shot or slugs, shotguns are more easily stopped by body armor, which is becoming more common for military forces around the world note granted, just because a projectile is stopped by armor does not mean no injury is incurred, but that's for another trope. This is why many military forces only employ shotguns to fulfill certain niche roles; that said, military training advises troops using shotguns in combat to reload at every opportunity doubly so if they're pump-action , and to always bring a handgun.
While a specialist tool for military purposes, for civilians and police officers a shotgun is often the most powerful, most effective defense weapon available. Not only are they very common and relatively easy to purchase but non-military non-SWAT individuals are more likely to fight at shorter range, less likely to encounter armored targets, and less likely to have weapons training. These all play into the natural advantages of the shotgun - Close range, high damage, simple operation - rendering them superior to any other type of weapon.
Versatile ammunition types and the ability to choose which is fired first, also make them appealing to law enforcement since they can choose to use taser rounds, beanbag rounds, or other nonlethal options, the military has special door-breaching rounds, while homeowners are likely to appreciate specialized home defense shells that are less likely to penetrate walls.
And finally, largely thanks to Hollywood , a shotgun is simply more intimidating than a handgun or submachine gun and is more likely to make a suspect or intruder flee or surrender. Gun laws of nearly all countries are and historically have been far more lax in regards to shotguns than rifled guns. Even in the Soviet Union , until there were practically no restrictions or regulations on shotguns for hunting purposes, beside the cost of the gun which meant a barely affordable wad of cash for most people.
For this reason, there is far more probable for someone to own a shotgun instead of rifle, and to be trained in its use. Another common misconception is that "you don't even need to aim" with them and it's impossible to miss, as though a shotgun's spread pattern was akin to an aerosol spray can. Out of any useful barrel length note cutting a barrel to a very short length does widen the spread, but this comes at the direct expense of its effectiveness as a weapon since the scattering pellets won't have nearly as much force behind them , the shot will emerge as a tightly-packed cluster of pellets and only begin spreading appreciably once it's about feet away from the muzzle.
At the sort of distances in a typical home defense scenario, you most certainly will need to properly aim the weapon. Also a subversion as the actual gun is very heavy and unwieldy compared to other designs intended for the same purpose.
Ironically, it may arguably be one of the worst tactical shotguns ever designed , suffering from extremely convoluted controls, poor ergonomics, serious reliability and quality issues, and useless "tacticool" features. The Benelli M3 Super It may look less cooler than the Franchi SPAS, but it does everything it can do and is way more reliable and simpler to use. Later succeeded by the Benelli M4 Super 90 , which is even more rugged and reliable, even though its semi-auto only.
In WWI, it was used to devastating effect by American soldiers to clear out trenches, particularly because of its ability to "slamfire," meaning the soldier holds the trigger down and simply pumps the handle, causing the shotgun to fire with each pump the main reason for this ability was that the gun lacked a trigger disconnector, a mechanism that prevents firearms from shooting like an automatic weapon. The later Winchester Model also lacked the disconnector and shared the same ability to slamfire as the did.
German troops learned to fear the sight and sound of a charging American soldier armed with a trench gun, and the German government actually issued a formal protest against America, demanding they discontinue use of the weapon because of the ghastly wounds and physiological trauma it created. In the event that you are out of ammunition, the Winchester Trench Gun also has an adapter for a bayonet lug.
The reason the shotguns were not widely adopted was due to maintenance and ammunition issues. In the muddy trenches it was very hard to keep your shotgun shells dry and wet ammo would cause the shotguns to jam and misfire. The effectiveness made it somewhat controversial, as the German government accused the United States of committing war crimes by using shotguns specifically they accused the weapon of inflicting unnecessary suffering and indiscriminate effects.
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