05-24-2018, 10:09 PM
(05-24-2018, 06:20 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Slugs are also very good for breaching closed/locked doors. And if you notice the model I was carrying had a pistol grip as opposed to a fixed stock.
To be sure. They also give you a more lethal round for an "at range" encounter. Not to mention a slug hits any part of the target's body and that target is out of commission. I have a Benelli M4, and I have both a pistol and rifle stock for it. Also own two Remington 870's. Nothing beats a good 12 guage.
(05-24-2018, 07:22 PM)fredtoast Wrote: What is the max capacity of shells a shotgun will hold.
7 in the tube and one in the chamber. There are magazine fed shotguns as well, either Remington or Mossberg just came out with a box magazine fed pump gun. There's also Saiga that make a 10 round box magazine fed shotgun based on the AK platform.
Quote:How do you "top off" a magazine?
The fact that you asked this question when you claim to have fired a shotgun is odd. Say I have a fully loaded shotgun. I fire off three rounds. I can then "top off" the tube by feeding three more rounds into the tube, making it fully loaded. Unlike a box magazine fed gun, in which replacing a magazine before it is empty means you cannot use the remaining rounds. Unless you replace the old magazine that is. This also allows you to mix your ammunition type, if needed, to, as I said, a slug round.
Quote:I am familiar with what 00 buckshot can do. You don't have to be as accurate to hit your target, but you would have to be shooting into a crowd to get maximum efficiency.
Not even a little. You have an unrealistic expectation of the spread of the shot once it exits the gun. Of course different chokes give you a different spread, but a modified choke will put all nine pellets in around a 12" radius at about fifteen to twenty yards. If you're trying to hit more than one target at a time with a shotgun then you're doing it wrong. At close range, e.g. indoors, a shotgun is decidedly more lethal than an .223 firing AR.
