Thinking of purchasing a flintlock muzzleloader once I get my hunting license, and I was hoping for some input from folk that have hunted with these. What will be more versatile for the bush if I could only carry one? A smoothbore fowler/shotgun or a rifle?
I figure with a smoothbore I can shoot both RB and shot which expands my game selection, but with a rifle I can hit things from further away. Northern Ontario will be my hunting ground.
Since I've had a lot of spare time (*cough* unemployed *cough*), I decided to do extensive testing on the one-hit-kill ranges of shotguns to be better informed in terms of what's meta, and perhaps more importantly, what perks really make a difference in what scenarios. To this end, I loaded up into a private lobby with a friend and shot him in the face over 1000 times, and recorded all the results and relevant variables. If you don't care too much for specific numbers and walls of text, TL;DR at the bottom of the page.
Methodology:
It's important to note how I went about measuring range, since the game doesn't have a fool proof way to do so. In my testing, I used the DARCI as my measuring stick. When a distance is set, I adjust the distance such that DARCI shows one lower than the intended distance, then I very slowly tap the back button until the desired distance shows up. E.g. when tests were done at "7 meters," I backed away just enough to have DARCI transition from showing a 6 to a 7.
The two distances of 6 and 7 meters were chosen since this seems to be the area where most shotgun seems to fall. Originally, 5 meters and 8 meters were also going to be conducted, but as the tests panned out, 6 and 7 meters alone seemed illustrative enough. Half meter increments were not performed due to the difficulty in getting exact distance measurements, especially given the large number of tests I intended on running.
For the purpose of this testing, I chose to run each individual scenario 40 times. This provides a very reasonable 99% confidence interval for the tests that we have ran (assuming a binomial distribution), especially for edge cases. The reliability of the data also goes up somewhat based on the similarities between various tests. I probably could have done some more but honestly my soul couldn't handle it.
For precision frames and lightweight frames, the tests were run using a single gun from each archetype (namely, Retold Tale and Riiswalker). This was possible due to the factors deemed necessary for testing being relatively low; specifically, the range and whether or not full choke was present. However, for the aggressive frame shotguns, due to the existence of shot package as well as opening shot, tests were conducted on four shotguns in total - Felwinter's Lie (surprise!), Found Verdict, Toil and Trouble, and Astral Horizon. Which shotgun was used in which test has been noted.
All tests were ran using one shotgun targeting mod, on a g
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Hoping you guys can help me make my decision on which gun I should use this season. It’ll be my first season hunting gun this year and can’t decide what to use. Where I hunt my maximum shot is approximately 120 yards.
I’m having a hard time finding sabots and right now only have 12 rounds. I have about 35 rifled slugs.
My choice is between sighting in my Mossberg 835 w/ rifled slug barrel or my benelli supernova w/ smoothbore barrel.
Is there anything in UK firearms law about smoothbore firearms which aren't in your traditional shotgun chamberings 12, 20 & 410 etc?
For example a smoothbore semi-automatic AR15 chambered in .223, centrefire is ok as it's a 'shotgun', and the ammunition would be classed as solid slug no?
I realise this would be banned by the Home Office much like we saw with LR and MARS. Or otherwise quickly putting S1 shotguns on the chopping block.
Just one of those things I've wondered about.
So, older tanks had rifled bore barrels to induce a spin on the projectile which would keep it stable and prevent any tumbling midair.
But, from what I've seen most modern tanks use smooth-bore barrels. So, how did they solve the problem? How do they keep their shells stable mid flight?
