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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
Why use shotshell at all..
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With the right loading in the right situation its pretty good. It was, reportedly, quite effective in Vietnam where there was very little body armor worn and the ranges were close. Today if you use high volume shot load (18 for a 00 buck or 35 for #4 shot, those get a good ROF bonus) and if you use the new tungsten or hevi shot pellets -- you're looking at 1,300 fps, and effective ranges out 60-70 yards. (These are the Dead Coyote brand rounds, I believe.) On top of that, you've got the new gator shot spreader, an improved version of the old duckbill, detailed in Seals in Vietnam. The gator gets the duckbill bonus to hit, and it acts as a compensator and a breaching muzzle extension. On a magazine- or drum-fed shotgun, that's a pretty devastating CQB weapon. I'd still take an HK416, though.
Oh, and here's the real tungsten spheres, nearly twice the weight of lead:
http://www.tungstenspheres.com/tungsten_spheres.html