From:	Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET>
Subject:	Re: shotguns & gasvents (was Re Assault Cannons)
Date:	Wed, 4 Dec 1996 02:19:41 +0000

Paul wrote,

> So put the shot in a plastic cup. Keeps it together and out of the
> muzzle brake's baffles until it clears the muzzle, then air resistance
> snatches the cup away and the shot continues unaffected.

It is common to serrate a standard shotgun shell's casing halfway
down to allow one to fire shot through a wall in MOUT (Urban
warfare.) The container punches through the wall, and the the shot
scatters.

> This does make choking the weapon more difficult, but then you can mount
> effective recoil compensation.

Yes, it would work. You could just add +2 to the choke or something
similar to allow for this.

> Alternatively, use multiple small openings and deburr them occasionally.
> Steel shot is not going to "get caught up" in a hole a third of its
> diameter, but the edges of the hole will develop slight burrs: fiddly
> but not too difficult to fix, or just change the vent every few thousand
> rounds.

Yes, this is the final point, I think. Gas vents can be done, but
must be changed every hundred rounds or so.


--Droopy
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