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By-The-Basic-Book and High Tech, a 2-3/4" 12ga 00 Buck round flings 9 round lead balls doing 1d+1 pi each out to 40/800. Looking up a t...

Doing the Gun Stats math on 12ga 2-3/4" shotgun ammo. It doesn't quite match the Basic Set or High Tech stats. One load of 00 buck ...

I own two 12ga shotguns because I feel that a gun-owner should own a shotgun. I used to shoot trap and field, even getting good at it, but I...

Reading my most recent issue of Shooting Illustrated (Sep '25) and they have an article comparing 00 Buck to #4 Buck. It's something...

Got Dissapator Dottie and Lavender Linda zeroed today.   12 round confirmation of the zero at a mere 25 yards.  I'm reasonably happy wit...

To ghost load your Remington 870: Load the magazine with as many rounds as you want with the action open. Drop a round in the chamber. Place...

I never take a shotgun when making a character, but this is a neat trick that you'd have to show the GM the video for them to let i...

Thanks to Wollfe in the comments we know that I didn't quite get it right from what C&Rsenal showed. The Winchester Model 1887 shotg...

Thanks to C&Rsenal I now know that the capacity of the Winchester 1887 is different from what GURPS says. The real gun holds 5 in the tu...

When looking up loads for the M79 I was struck that a shotgun is a higher velocity gun. 12ga is about 1350 feet per second with #4 buckshot....

#4 Buck does 1d-1(0.5) pi- and gives 27 pellets in 12ga 2-3/4"  00 Buck does 1d pi and you get 9 pellets.  For the record, a .22LR from...

This is really me writing it down so I can remember it later. Normal rate of fire fore a pump shotgun in GURPS 4e is 2xn. Guns like the Winc...

I don't shotgun much so this innovation slipped past me. Interia action: Nifty. Simple and elegant. The place that introduced me to t...

It's 4/10! Bracing, don't you think?

All shotgun ammunition fires at nearly the same velocity. That means a pellet of a given size is going to do the same damage regardless of g...

  OG Twilight: 2000 had the H&K CAWS. In the original game it used standard shotgun ammo. The CAWS program was long dead before the year...

Even though all the ammo shown is 2-1/2", both guns are chambered for 3" shells. I am not saying anything in this picture is pract...

Marv has got hissef a silly .410 shotgun. Kel Tec's KSG410. Pictures to come. It's renewed my interest in a Savage 42. I stock .22 W...

Silly .410 revolvers have spurred a renaissance for buck and ball ammunition. Hornady has a 2-1/2" round that fires a 115gr hollow poin...