Big Bertha Shotgun

[DaBomb]

BG B3RT4



Affiliation: Thanatos Industries, General Public

Ownership: N/A

Type: Three barreled slug shotgun

Intent: To make a kick ass shot gun!

Size: Average size and weight for a shotgun. 90 centimeters in length. About 10 kilograms.

Composition: Entire body is made of durasteel. The stock is equipped with a Multi-spring press, effectively removing a considerable amount of the recoil.


Range: Optimal range: 25 meters Maximum range: 50 meters

Ammunition Capacity: 15 rounds per magazine. (So five shots before you have to reload.)


Description: You know what the universe needs the most? Peace, love, Money? Yeah, those are pretty cool but what the universe really need; is a three barreled shotgun. And Thanatos Industries have just fixed that problem. Shotguns are cool, right? Well this baby is three times as cool. Firing three simultaneous shotgun shells into someone's stomach, guarantees he'll won't be walking again.

With our patented 3 barrel pump, a hell is loaded in each barrel with only one pump, pretty cool, right? And what kind of ammunition is being pumped into it? Ten gauge shells with Durasteel pellets , which in our opinion is enough boom for anyone's buck. Enough to blow rancor's head off before he knew what hit 'em. You can fire an individual barrel (The one at the top) or all three barrels should you truly desire, by clicking the switch near the safety button.

Stats: Pump action
Variety: Comes in Black, grey, and silver. Blood splat optional.
Optional Modules
Advanced Recoil Pad: Made from advanced synthetic materials, and designed in a shock absorbing pattern; this reduces recoil when mounted on the shoulder. 300 Credits

Cost for new: 6,500 Credits
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[Ashiruni]

So, just to give you an idea here: a 10 guage shotgun is uncommon because it kicks like a mother. You're using three of 'em with no form of advanced recoil control. You're literally trying to dislocate people's shoulders (at best) here. For the same effect, you could just make a bigger shell and use special ammo. A shotgun with a 3 cm barrel diameter and loaded with buckshot, for example, is something that would terrify me. Same problem with recoil, however. I guess you just decided to go with the "rule of cool" like everybody else >.>

The easiest-to-use kind of recoil management is a recoil spring. Essentially, you put a spring in the stock and have a lot of the movement from the recoil directed into the spring first. The spring dampens the recoil by a fairly big margin before you actually feel it. Hydraulics are another, similar option. Your moving parts are used to push a bunch of hydraulic fluid out of a cylinder at a controlled rate, which dissipates a fair portion of the recoil. Neither of these options facilitate fast-firing, but if you give it a few seconds between shots you ought to be fine.

Star Wars also has a fancy thing called an Inertial Compensator, however, so if you miniaturize one of these and give it a fancy power pack, you could fire as often as you want and not feel a thing. The size of the power pack would be dependent upon the size of the blast, however, so you'd have to replace it pretty much the same time you change your magazine ('clip' btw, is the wrong term. You've got a box magazine.).

As for your effective range, the range should be dependent on what type of ammunition you're firing. A 12 guage combat shotgun (with full/open choke) will hit with a single pellet roughly 90% of the time at sixty meters. At forty meters, it's two-three pellets a hundred percent of the time. If you're using slugs (which is rarely done, but useful against big or armored targets) your effective range is somewhere on the order of two hundred meters or more (depends on your skill and sights). Your gun is bigger, with more pellets, so your range is good up to 50 meters easily.

Personally, if I were building this gun, I'd give it a selector switch and a smart magazine. Put three slugs, three birdshot (for annoying large groups of targets), and nine buckshot in each, then alternate between them as needed/wanted. I'd also include a selector that lets you fire any single barrel, or the whole shebang, depending on whether or not ammo conservation is needed, and maybe a staggered firing, that fires them more like a three round burst setting does on more common weapons.

 

[Commissar Brett]

When one barrel ain't enough, and two is too few!
I need this shotgun in my life