'Not Fade Away'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
Because your specialty is futility?
I just had to explain to one of the developers here -- one of the senior developers -- why he was getting an integer overflow error. That was CompSci 101, dude.
but I can't find any indication that the US does.
Canada does, or at least it did in the late '70s.
Where my parents live, only shotguns are allowed for deer hunting. My dad goes further north to less-populated areas to hunt, where rifles are allowed. But that's more a regulation on the hunting season - it doesn't apply to gun ownership itself.
Oh god Heather, you may be right.
why he was getting an integer overflow error. That was CompSci 101, dude.
You shoulda' told him it's because the integer bucket got too full.