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[apocalypsos]

I know nothing about guns. Seriously, absolutely nothing. So someone help me out, and talk to me like an imbecile when you answer. How many shots can you take with a shotgun before you have to reload? And how do you shoot one, step by step, from loading it to pulling the trigger? Are there even any steps in between?

Sheesh. If this weren't the only time I plan to have anybody in this story fire a gun, I wouldn't even put it in. Not knowing about this stuff and trying to write it is too hard. *grumbles*

EDIT: Well, now I know who to go to for gun questions. Now all I have to do is find someone to go to for axe and tomahawk questions. :)

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[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

Try http://www.shotgunworld.com and click on the howto links.

Some are multiple shot, but usually you get a singleshot (two from a double barrel, which is literally two shotguns side by side with one handle).

You "break" the breech (open the back, bending the handle down from the barrel), insert a shell, close the breech (if done one-handed, this is sometimes refered to as snapping it, especially in Westerns), turn off the safety (push a button), aim and squeeze the trigger.

It will feel like a donkey kicked you in the shoulder. The tighter you hold it, the better you absorb the recoil. Those guys who fire a shotgun onehanded, holding it away from thier bodies would break thier wrist trying that in real life.

That help?

Also, check this out: http://www.livejournal.com/users/sin_bed_comix/1311.html

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely perfect. Thank you! Maybe now I can get this chapter done sometime before I die and just get it the hell out of the way so I can go back to writing characters who just play with swords and fire. :)