A question about shotguns...

Is it possible for to use a magazine for shotgun shells? I'm not expert on guns, just a curious thought since it would suck ass to reload the damn thing during a zombie apocalypse.

You know, five seconds of using google could answer that question. http://store.carolinashooterssupply.com/servlet/-strse-57/Saiga-410-15-round/Detail

Depends on the type of shotgun.
I rather have the striker though
http://members.shaw.ca/tmcveigh/Projects/GunRights/images/striker.jpg

I'd rather have your regular Ithaca or Remington pump-action.

Those auto shotguns are finicky, not that great things. (Including the SPAS). One of the best things about a shotgun is the sheer variety of shells you can use. With an auto-shotgun you loose the ability to quickly load a different type of shell and it's really unlikely that you could keep the gun on target in auto-mode.

http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=660793



"The concept of a fully-automatic shotgun has it's flaws. Namely the insane recoil of 12 gauge shells which are tough enough to control in a pump-action, but when you bring a cyclic rate of fire of 240 RPM things get crazy. Even if the Jackhammer's semi-auto-system soaks up a good deal of the recoil you'd have a hard time finding people who can hold on to such a device while it's rattling off. It doesn't help that it's magazines (oh, I'm sorry, I meant to say "Cassettes") hold only 10 rounds. What makes it worse is that those cassettes have to be made PERFECTLY, they have to be laser carved from a solid block of steel by the lightning bolts of Zeus himself for them to cycle more than 2 shots before jamming. This is probably why only 20 or so prototypes were ever made, only 2 of which were fully-automatic.
So obviously everyone and their mother would have one. Games like Fallout Tactics and Battlefield 2142 certainly think so, granted they both take place in alternate universes where the concept of an uncontrollable, heavy, overpriced, unreliable, full-auto 12 gauge doesn't sound stupid. It hasn't popped up everywhere, but where it has showed up it would have been touted as the ultimate PWNZERSCHREK SHOTTIE." - Bean-O



"So basically some guy in Rhodesia came up with an idea to make a shotgun that works like a revolver where there is a double-action-only trigger and a rotating cylinder that holds 12 rounds. To cycle these rounds through the cylinder you have to wind up the magazine. It's a bit of a pain to reload all 12 too since the magazine isn't removable. It's a pretty asinine way of firing a shotgun. You can get a lot of lead downrange pretty fast but reloading is a bitch, and you have to wind the damn magazine every couple shots. The gun was updated in the 80's with a system that ejected the empty shells automatically and the cylinder rotation system was redesigned. This gun (just as the first) was made in South Africa but now under a new name as the Reutech Protecta. It is used by the South African police and military but as with the SPAS it never really caught on outside it's country of origin. Well think about it. It holds 12 shots, shoots slightly faster than a pump-action and it LOOKS SCARY. Therefore it's the deadliest shotgun of all time and it PWNZERCHREKKS everything you can like lean out of a car and hose down EVERYTHING in sight in less than a second only criminals want it blargagahhgagah. Well, that's basically what the American and Canadian congress (and parliament) said. It's banned for civilian use because it's such a "crime gun" (although at least in the states you can get it after doing the whole class 3 rigamaroll). In fact, criminals hate the damn thing. It's a big gun, it's cylinder makes it impossible to conceal even with the short barreled version. And most of the ones they can find are the old variants with that idiotic cylinder winding system. It still really only functions as a double-action shotgun (which I guess puts it somewhere between pump and semi-auto, both of which are legal) and a bulky one at that. So It's the same old "just because it LOOKS scary doesn't mean it's the deadliest gun ever" rule." - Bean-O

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lol thats if i had to choose an auto-shotty

Thanks for the info though,good reading lol

I rather have a double barrel.

Shotguns... SO outdated maan...

Thanks Flaser, but I was talking more on the lines of a handgun/rifle clip version for shotgun shells.


But then again, maybe because they're too big to fit on a clip but just 3-4 shells would be enough to make the gun light and fast to reload with. Right?

hmmm you know. id prefer good old buck shot or solid slugs myself. but i would in th eend prefer a semi-auto mag fed shotty, i mean when the horde is comeing at you closeing at less then 20 yards does recoid realy frigin matter? cmon. zombie defence 101 FIREPOWER>ACURACY. and there are even millitary issue auto-shottys with explosive rounds. basicley minature grenades. id love to have one of them in the zombie apocolapyse