A shotgun slug is a heavy projectile (a slug) made of lead, copper, or other material and fired from a shotgun. Slugs are designed for hunting large game...
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spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns are most commonly used as smoothbore firearms, meaning that their gun...
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A slug barrel is a shotgun barrel that is designed primarily to fire slugs instead of shot, and is usually rifled. A shotgun with such a barrel is often...
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disperse. A rifled slug uses rifling on the slug itself so it can be used in a smoothbore shotgun. Early shotgun cartridges used brass cases, not unlike pistol...
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Wayback Machine Maddox, Brandon (January 22, 2021). "SHOTGUN AMMO TYPES: BUCKSHOT VS. BIRDSHOT VS. SLUG". Silencer Central. Archived from the original on...
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shotgun is a shotgun issued by militaries for warfare. The earliest shotguns specifically designed for combat were the trench guns or trench shotguns...
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Gauge (firearms) (redirect from 12-gauge shotgun)
12-gauge, it would take 12 balls of lead of the same size as the 12 gauge shotgun's inner bore diameter to weigh 1 pound (454 grams). The term is related...
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most commonly applied to one-piece shotgun slugs, to differentiate them from shotshells containing numerous shots. Slugs are commonly fired from choked smoothbore...
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ability to use shotgun slugs extends the range and penetration capability of the shotgun. Police officers in the US commonly secure a shotgun in their vehicles...
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for better and worse". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved June 11, 2024. White, Lucas (June 10, 2024). "Metal Slug Tactics is equal parts complex and silly"...
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