US combat shotguns by Leroy Thompson, Peter Dennis, Alan Gilliland

By Leroy Thompson, Peter Dennis, Alan Gilliland

Whilst a soldier needs to face a number of competitors at shut quarters, few guns can fit the effectiveness of the shotgun. From global struggle I to the conflict on Terror, the shotgun has been a devastating weapon within the fingers folks troops. For city strive against, prisoner keep watch over and shipboard operations, it continues to be as lethal this present day because it was once a century in the past. This ebook examines a number of kinds, from the early wrestle shotguns via to the insurrection gun and trench gun models utilized in international battle l. So powerful was once the ditch shotgun, the Germans complained it violated the "Rules of struggle" as an inhumane weapon, and threatened to execute troops captured wearing one. extra lately throughout the conflict on Terror, shotguns were used to transparent cave complexes in Afghanistan and constructions in Iraq, yet in particular to blow doorways open in the course of entries and searches. that includes especially commissioned full-color art, this is often the tale of the origins, improvement and using the wrestle shotgun in US carrier, from the...

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According to Bruce N. Canfield, US Marines managed to acquire three times their authorized number of fighting shotguns in anticipation of the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands (Canfield 2007: 103–04). Once again, however, damp conditions caused problems with paper-cased shotgun shells. And, once again, brass shells were developed but did not reach front-line troops until very late in World War II. February 2009: a trainee at the USMC Dynamic Entry School at Quantico, Virginia, practices breaching locks using a Mossberg M590 shotgun with pistol grip.

Other versions such as the Mk V and Mk VI did not have the extended magazine tube. Both the M7180 Mk I and the M7188 Mk I were tested extensively by the USMC, but the Corps chose the Remington M870 Mk I slide-action instead. A small number of M7188 shotguns – reportedly six, but some sources state more than a dozen – did see combat in Vietnam with the US Navy SEALs, but were found very hard to control on full-automatic fire and had too small a magazine capacity (Swearengen 1978: 337). The M7188 also proved highly sensitive to dirt or debris in the action, which could cause malfunctions.

It had a five-round magazine capacity. ) Since Winchester had a patent on the handguard used on its trench guns, Remington developed its own design, consisting of a wooden handguard and separate bayonet adaptor for the M1917 rifle bayonet. One bayonet adaptor designed by Remington would have used the bayonet for the Remington Rolling Block rifle, of which Remington had a substantial supply, but only prototypes were made as the US Government wanted trench guns that used the M1917 bayonet. The M10 Trench Gun also had a longer barrel than the Winchester trench guns, at 23in.

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