Calli, it looked like a rifle to me.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Mar 04, 2005 11:12:55 am PST #4156 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
tommyrot - Mar 04, 2005 11:13:18 am PST #4157 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I can't really tell them apart by looking.
You can usually tell a shotgun by the fact that the barrell is much wider and not as long as a rifle.
Calli - Mar 04, 2005 11:13:40 am PST #4158 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
OK, thanks, ChiKat.
DXMachina - Mar 04, 2005 11:15:12 am PST #4159 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Wesley used a shotgun.
bon bon - Mar 04, 2005 11:15:58 am PST #4160 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Wes had a shotgun, IIRC.
If I'm not mistaken, there's also something about thinking about using the gun, loading it, using it, and possible reloading and the time it takes with a shotgun to do all of that.
Which is what I mean with the distinction re: automatic shotguns. Most are semi-auto which means you don't have to reload between shots but you do have to pull the trigger each time. But, IME, most semi-autos only have a five or so shell capacity.
Calli - Mar 04, 2005 11:16:46 am PST #4161 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
You can usually tell a shotgun by the fact that the barrell is much wider and not as long as a rifle.
Oh -- OK, thanks! I think I'd need to see a some side by side a few times if I wanted to be sure. Since I'm in NC, I expect I could find a few. Quite possibly in one or more of the trucks in my office's parking lot.
ETA: I see dissention in the ID of Wesley's projectile weapon of choice. Ooops.
Cashmere - Mar 04, 2005 11:17:46 am PST #4162 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Most are semi-auto which means you don't have to reload between shots but you do have to pull the trigger each time. But, IME, most semi-autos only have a five or so shell capacity.
But the shot pattern is so wide, if you miss with a shotgun, really, a reload can't help you.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2005 11:20:04 am PST #4163 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From brief googling, it looks like laws in some places (Australia, for instance) classify rifles separately from shotguns, but I can't find any indication that the US does.
Daisy Jane - Mar 04, 2005 11:21:05 am PST #4164 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Loading in and of itself is kinda a bitch. And you can blow a huge hole, and hit things with the scattershot, but it's much much harder if that thing is moving add in the blowback and it's really pretty crappy to shoot with one unless you know what you're doing.
I've never actually hunted with a shotgun, nor really seen it used for anything but out-at-the-farm-protection, but if Grandaddy wanted to scare something away so it never came back-shotgun, wanted to kill something-rifle.
sarameg - Mar 04, 2005 11:21:21 am PST #4165 of 10002
Why did I just get in an argument about reputable sources and why I don't care if the tabloids have a grain of truth in them?
Why?