US Military shotguns

[Panther Al]

Originally Posted by waiting4something

How did you get access to a SPAS-12? And did you really like using it? I have one and yeah it looks bad ass, but that is one slow mother to reload. I could see the appeal of carrying it as a coolness factor, but damn! After your 9 rounds are expended your pulling a side arm or hiding behind something until its topped off. Plus, you must have had a cool chain of command, because most units are run by the politically correct.

The previous owners no longer had any need for them (Any of the twelve). I didn't find it that hard - or slow - to reload when needed, pretty much always kept in mind when nothing else is happening, slip a round to top it off whenever possible. As to PC officers, ours would normally fall in that category, but since he made sure we had "issues" with ammo (He would allow our grenadiers to have any ammo for the 203's for fear of making us feel too aggressive) and always always had "unforseen difficulties" when putting in for Ammo resupply. At one point our troop was down to less than 300 rounds. 300 Rounds.

So the point was made to him by NCO's much higher than myself, that since we can't seem to get 5.56 we was gonna use whatever we could, it was a "health and safety" issue for all involved, mostly his.

[waiting4something]

Originally Posted by Panther Al

The previous owners no longer had any need for them (Any of the twelve). I didn't find it that hard - or slow - to reload when needed, pretty much always kept in mind when nothing else is happening, slip a round to top it off whenever possible. As to PC officers, ours would normally fall in that category, but since he made sure we had "issues" with ammo (He would allow our grenadiers to have any ammo for the 203's for fear of making us feel too aggressive) and always always had "unforseen difficulties" when putting in for Ammo resupply. At one point our troop was down to less than 300 rounds. 300 Rounds.

So the point was made to him by NCO's much higher than myself, that since we can't seem to get 5.56 we was gonna use whatever we could, it was a "health and safety" issue for all involved, mostly his.

The thing I HATE about the SPAS-12 AND some other semi-auto shotguns is you have to push on that that damn annoying bolt release button to load them. Mine does not have the larger mushroom size button some models have and I can see why they came up with it. I just know loading them is a bitch and more difficult then say a typical pump gun on the move. Still seeing a U.S. soldier running around with a SPAS-12 would have been a awesome sight.