I'm going to have to go with the Winchester M1897 Trench gun.
Five round tubular magazine with one in the chamber for six.
Pump shotgun, with an exposed hammer, so you can carry a round in the chamber and easily see whether the weapon is cocked, hence whether the weapon is safe.
Allegedly you can hold the trigger down and work the slide to fire very very fast (but with little accuracy).
You can attach a bayonet, specifically the M1905 Bayonet, which is a good long pig sticker for those times you blunder into someone in the dark.
It has a magazine release button on it that allows the entire tubular magazine to be emptied in the blink of an eye. A safety feature oddly absent on all modern shotguns. The only way to unload tube magazine shotguns is by manually working the slide or action, which can result in an accidently discharge if you are the village idiot... or just unlucky.
A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing
|