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5 unusual facts about Shotgun


Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Jim Rossignol of Rock, Paper, Shotgun noted in his review of A Machine for Pigs that it "is a marvellous, revolting, disturbing sequel to Dark Descent".

Body Harvest

Buildings also contain health pickups, new weapons other than your standard Pistol are a Machine gun, Shotgun, Rifle and Rocket launcher that each use different types of ammunition.

Crunchball 3000

Kieron Gillen of Rock, Paper, Shotgun described the game as a streamlined version of Speedball 2, unfavourably comparing Crunchball 3000 to both Speedball 2 and the browser football game Kickabout League.

Primeval Hunt

Though the game uses two light guns styled after pump-action shotguns, the player may choose from three weapons in-game: a Bow, Shotgun or Rifle (However, each player is also given a Rocket Launcher with one rocket in it for every level that is capable of killing any one Dinosaur with a single shot).

Robert Florence

"Cardboard Children" is a regular feature on boardgames that Florence now contributes to UK-based PC gaming blog Rock, Paper, Shotgun.


1961 World Shotgun and Running Target Championships

The 1961 World Shotgun and Running Target Championships were held in Oslo, Norway.

Air cannon

Air gun, a rifle, pistol, or shotgun which fires projectiles by means of compressed air or other gas

Alta View Hospital hostage incident

The Alta View Hospital hostage incident began the night of September 20, 1991 when Richard Worthington, armed with a shotgun, a handgun and sticks of dynamite arrived at Alta View Hospital in Sandy, UT in an attempt to kill Dr. Glade Curtis who had performed a tubal ligation on his wife.

Benjamin McCulloch

He acquired a reputation as an Indian fighter, favoring shotguns, pistols, and Bowie knives to the regulation saber and carbine.

Bluetick Coonhound

Pistol Annies sing about a no-good husband in the song "The Hunter's Wife" on the album Hell on Heels: "I've got myself a problem / I can't figure no way out / It's like I'm married to a shotgun carrying, tobacco chewing, no good Bluetick Hound."

Buster from Chicago

Buster was also responsible for the deaths of top Masseria lieutenants Alfred Mineo and Steve Ferrigno, gunning them down with his guitar-cased shotgun as they walked through the courtyard of a Bronx apartment complex on November 5, 1930.

Chugiak, Anchorage

Chugiak is also the home of the "Birchwood Shooting & Recreational Park", (adjacent to the Birchwood Airport), the largest Rifle, pistol, and shotgun range facility in the State of Alaska.

Cowboy Action Shooting

:*Wild Bunch – based on popular Western film "The Wild Bunch"; shooters use Colt 1911 pistol instead of revolvers, use lever action rifles, and use Winchester Model 1897 shotgun instead of double-barreled shotgun.

Crypt Killer

As well as being armed with a shotgun, the player can temporally upgrade their weapon by finding concealed more powerful guns such as a Gatling gun, grenade launcher, a more powerful shotgun, and even an Automatic hidden behind breakable objects.

David Leeson

While photographing protesters during the buildup to the ousting of Manuel Noriega in 1988, Leeson was wounded when a shotgun pellet entered his cheek, chipping his tooth and sending him to a Panama City emergency room.

Dragon's breath

Dragon's Breath rounds appear in video games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops, Fallout: New Vegas, and Killing Floor as shotgun rounds.

Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp

"Shotgun Blast" was renamed Blast in 1999 and was used on the soundtrack to WCW Mayhem: The Music.

Eddy Waller

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp as Rawhide Geraghty in "The Truth About Rawhide Geraghty" (1959); Hugh O'Brian as Wyatt Earp rides shotgun for the retiring 69-year-old Wells Fargo stagecoach driver Rawhide Geraghty on his last run from Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory, to Amarillo, Texas.

Edward J. O'Hare

As he approached the intersection of Ogden and Rockwell, a dark sedan rolled up beside him and two shotgun-wielding henchmen opened up on him with a volley of big-game slugs.

Francis Joseph Huchet

Perrée, a 45-year-old unmarried labourer from St Brelade, Jersey, had been killed by a shotgun blast after spending an evening drinking with Huchet.

Fritz Sennheiser

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Sennheiser in 1987 with its Scientific and Engineering Award for the development of the MKH 816 shotgun microphone.

Gangstar: Crime City

The selection ranges from the pistol, with infinite ammunition, the Uzi, which can be used for drive-by shootings, the AK-47 rifle, a pump-action shotgun, and the rocket launcher, which can only be obtained in certain places.

Give Me Your Word

His deep country tinged voice was ideally suited to the songs he sang, at first mainly romantic, but he also featured more muscular songs like "Shotgun Boogie" and his biggest hit, "Sixteen Tons".

Gordon Close-Support Weapon System

It was assumed that the basis of this family of automatic weapons constitute a belt-fed machine gun, automatic shotgun with box magazine and the double-barreled submachine gun with overhead inserted magazines (a la the Villar-Perosa SMG) in a very unusual configuration.

GUBU

First he decided to purchase a gun and responded to an advertisement by Dónal Dunne, a farmer in Edenderry, County Offaly who had a shotgun for sale.

High Standard Model 10

Crouch's goal was to create the ultimate entry shotgun for SWAT and tactical units.

Hoonah Police Department

Officers carry a Glock .40 caliber automatic pistol, Binelli .12 gauge automatic shotgun, Ruger Mini-14 .223 rifle, Taser, telescopic baton and OC pepper spray.

Jesús Castillo, Jr.

In summer 1998, Castillo became a jobber, competing on Shotgun, losing to superstars; featuring a young Edge, X-Pac and Dan Severn.

Mike Current

On Monday January 16, 2012, Current died after committing suicide by shooting himself in the head with a 20 gauge shotgun at the scenic outlook at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Dallas, Oregon.

Mossberg 500

The Mossberg is currently the number one selling shotgun and second in total production to the Remington 870.

Motown 1's

# "Shotgun" - Junior Walker & The All-Stars (2:57)

Mousegun

Note that few of the advantages of a mousegun applies outside of the arena of CCW, so a "mousegunner' is likely to prefer bigger guns, even shotguns for say; home defense or sport shooting.

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Pop the Trunk

His stepfather is fixing an old Chevrolet pickup truck, and eventually gets a Mossberg pump shotgun to shoot a burglar that has been tresspassing on his property, thus 'popping the trunk'.

Robert H. Paul

Paul fired his ever-present shotgun and emptied his revolver at the robbers, wounding a Cowboy later identified as Bill Leonard in the groin.

Rubble pile

A close analogy to a rubble pile is a shot and wax slug projectile commonly fired from a shotgun as opposed to a monolithic pure lead slug, with the former having a lower density as it is loosely held together by wax and is composed of numerous individual lead bird shot spheres.

Russell Mark

A distinction he shared with fellow shotgun shooters Luciano Giovannetti, Trap Men (Italy), Kimberly Rhode, Double Trap and Skeet Women (USA) and Susan Nattrass, Trap Women (Canada).

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos

The 32-page story, "Shotgun Opera", was by writer Jesse Alexander and artist John Paul Leon.

Shotgun Express

They were joined by singers Rod Stewart - previously of Steampacket - and Beryl Marsden - who had been the leading female singer on the Liverpool club scene - and took the name Shotgun Express.

Shotgun Messiah

Zinny J. Zan and Stixx reunited in 2012 referring to themselves as Shotgun to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Welcome to Bop City, the original debut album from the bands first incarnation as Kingpin before changing their name to Shotgun Messiah.

1993 was the final year for the band; Harry K. Cody and Tim Skold were left as the only members of Shotgun Messiah and created what would be the last Shotgun Messiah album Violent New Breed.

Shotgun News

Generally speaking, Shotgun News' format contains a featured review, a historical or handgun-related article, an article on amateur gunsmithing, and columns by Clayton Cramer, Chris Knox, Jeff Knox, and Vin Suprynowicz.

Shotgun News is an American shooting and firearms interest publication owned by InterMedia Outdoors.

Shotgun reality

Shotgun Reality is the debut album from female fronted industrial metal act, Lahannya.

Shotgun start

The December 2004 issue of Golf Digest reported that in May 1956 the head pro at Walla Walla Country Club in Walla Walla, Washington fired a shotgun to sound the start of play .

Slamfire

For example, the Winchester Model 1897 shotgun was deliberately designed to be slamfired by holding the trigger and operating the pump.

Superluv!

A yellow Aston Martin car strolls around the school and Brenda is seen in the shotgun, visibly miserable.

The Humbling

His weak attempts at portraying Prospero and Macbeth on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington lead to poor reviews, sending Axler into a profound depression and cause him to give up acting and contemplate suicide with a shotgun he keeps in his attic.

The Mall in Columbia

On January 25, 2014, at around 11:15 a.m., 19-year-old Darion Marcus Aguilar entered a Zumiez store on the second floor of the mall, armed with a 12-gauge shotgun, and fired six to nine shots, killing two employees—21-year-old Brianna Benlolo and 25-year-old Tyler Johnson—and injuring five others before committing suicide.

Unit Tindakan Cepat

UTC used the shotgun from the Winchester Model 1912 for operation conducted and it use non-lethal ammunition, spreads and buck-shots supply to break down the door during conducted the raid.

Warren Gish

Gish also proposed multiplexing query sequences to speed up BLAST searches by an order of magnitude or more (MPBLAST); implemented segmented sequences with internal sentinel bytes, in part to aid multiplexing with MPBLAST and in part to aid analysis of segmented query sequences from shotgun sequencing assemblies;

Worms: Open Warfare

The weapons and gadgets you use in battle include grenades, homing missiles, bazookas, cluster bombs, banana bombs, dynamite, air strikes, shotguns, uzis, firepunches, dragonballs, prods, blowtorches, mines, ropes, girders, jetpacks, teleports, even use explosive sheep.

X Brands

X Brands played "Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah", a tall Pawnee Indian with a double-barrel shotgun who was Derringer's constant companion.


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