The pump-action shotgun is purely American ... essentially turning a slick repeater into a single shot. The stock dimensions are pretty common among American repeaters, and one notices the ...

He carefully lifted the family single-shot shotgun from the wall pegs. The 12-gauge felt solid in his hands, and off he went in search of dinner. That scene played out time and again on farms and ...

The ability to project a devastating pattern of lead or steel shot to short ranges is also ... fired lengthwise down an enemy trench; a single 1897 shotgun could send fifty-hour ...