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Shotgun

A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug. Shotguns are most commonly used as smoothbore firearms, meaning…

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Shotgun

Nodes292
Edges291
Triples312
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006849
Components1

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Shotgun

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related to Hammerless shotguns · 24
Shotgun → American, Anson, Barber, Belgium, British, By, Chateauvillard, Daniel Myron LeFever, Deeley's, Europe, European, France, He, However, In, Joseph Needham, LeFever, Murcott's, New York, Robert
related to References · 24
Shotgun → Alabama, Alfred, Best Guns, Bob, Brister, Countrysport Press, Elmer, ISBN, Jack, Keith, Knopf, McIntosh, Michael, New Jersey, New Win Publishing, New York, O'Connor, Pennsylvania, Science, Shotgunning
related to John Moses Browning · 18
Shotgun → America's, And, Before, Browning, Browning Auto-5, Clair, France, In, John Browning, Lever Action Repeating Shotgun, Model, One, Pump Action Shotgun, The, The Browning Auto-5, This, While, Winchester Firearms
related to 19th century · 15
Shotgun → American, American Civil War, American Old West, As, Both, Doc Holliday's, During, Indian Wars, Lawman Cody Lyons, Mounted, Passenger, The, These, This, With
related to Shot · 15
Shotgun → Australia, BB, Different, For, In England, Informally, Most, No, Non-toxic, Pellet, Shot, Swanshot, The, Thus, United States
related to World wars · 15
Shotgun → After World War, American, Due, General Pershing, Germans, Germany, Shotguns, The, These, This, Those, United States, United States Army, Western Front, World War
related to Late 20th century to present · 13
Shotgun → American, French, Iraq War, It, Korean War, Many, Nonetheless, On, Recently, Since, Taser International, Vietnam War, World War II
related to United States · 13
Shotgun → Any Other Weapon, AOW, Barrel, Certain, Firearm, For, In, Most, National Firearms Act, SBS, Shotguns, The, United States
related to Military · 12
Shotgun → Army, In, Iraq, Iraq War, Marines, NCOs, Recently, Shotguns, Some, Vietnam War, World War, World War II
related to Canada · 10
Shotgun → Acquisition Licence, All, Canada, Non-restricted, PAL, POL, Possession, Possession-Only License, Semi-automatic, Shotguns

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shotguns used hunting use also shot barrel barrels rounds gun common small less slug action military buckshot shells range weapon

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Shotgunis acombination gun0.90text
Shotgunis agreat firearm for inexperienced shooters0.90text
Shotgunis a8-gauge Remington MasterBlaster.Law enforcement.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner0.90text
Shotgunis a8-gauge Remington MasterBlaster0.90text
skeetinstance ofShotguns are also used for target-shooting sports0.80text
trapinstance ofShotguns are also used for target-shooting sports0.80text
and sporting claysinstance ofShotguns are also used for target-shooting sports0.80text
which involve flying clay disksinstance ofShotguns are also used for target-shooting sports0.80text
known asinstance ofShotguns are also used for target-shooting sports0.80text
interchangeable chokesinstance ofModern innovations0.80text
subgauge inserts make the double-barreled shotgun the shotgun of choice in skeetinstance ofModern innovations0.80text
trap shootinginstance ofModern innovations0.80text

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