Model12Win
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The Winchester Model 12 can also be "slam-fired", where the trigger is held rearward and the gun is pumped as fast as you can. Each time the bolt close, the gun goes off. Sort of like fanning a SA revolver, but in 12 gauge!
It might not be that useful, but the boys who used them in the trenches could put out devastating walls of buckshot that would reap paths of annhiliation through enemies caught en defelade. You could imagine what 7 rounds of 9 pellet buckshot discharged almost immediatly into the ranks could have done.
That's 63 .33 caliber lead balls moving at 1100 FPS or more towards your direction all in about 2 seconds. These trench shotguns reaped horrible devastation on the enemy, and was equally devastating to his morale.
It might not be that useful, but the boys who used them in the trenches could put out devastating walls of buckshot that would reap paths of annhiliation through enemies caught en defelade. You could imagine what 7 rounds of 9 pellet buckshot discharged almost immediatly into the ranks could have done.
That's 63 .33 caliber lead balls moving at 1100 FPS or more towards your direction all in about 2 seconds. These trench shotguns reaped horrible devastation on the enemy, and was equally devastating to his morale.