CByrneIV wrote:Shotgun Speedloader
The utility of an underslung shotgun is in doorbusting; both in blowing a lock (like the masterkey), and in clearing rooms. I'd certainly rather have an underslung shotgun indoors than a grenade launcher.
Chris, we had the grenade launcher under the M16 as well as the M79 "Blooper" guns and at that time there were a number of different shells available for them...white phosphorous (WP), illuminating flare (IF), high explosive (HP), anti-personnel (AP) and a shotshell loaded with I believe 00 buck which was designed for bunker clearing and such...
The trouble with them was in getting off a second shot if necessary so the guys would always transition to their auto rifles but even that took time to accomplish...Those of us who had Uzis just did the house clearing while the M16s were for perimeter defense...We would rotate the guns so that one wasn't always doing the dirty jobs...
It was a simple procedure, house clearing...two guys, one on either side of the door, one would kick in the door and both would throw grenades into the room and after the explosions go in high and low and shoot anything still standing...It would nothing for each of us to be carrying ten or twelve grenades and six to eight extra mags…
Thankfully, the Arabs didn’t do any booby trapping (to any great extent) like the Germans and Russians of WW2 did or the Viet Cong but then again they really didn’t have the time to as the Israelis also used the German Blitzkrieg method of assault and in most cases they were too stupid to do the work necessary…How an army can be trained when 40 to 50% of their force is completely illiterate is beyond me and my hat again goes off to Mikhail Timofeevich for designing a firearm that even they could use…
If the shotgun was a semi auto it might work but a pump obviously wouldn't...The problems I could foresee would be in the positioning of the gun for firing unless they would be trained to use their left hand on the trigger of the under slung shotgun…It would seem to me the only feasible way of doing it…