Currently replaying Cyberpunk 2077. I finished all the base game's ending paths, and one of the expansion's ending paths. There is at least one more expansion ending that I haven't seen yet, so I'm replaying 2077 all the way through once again. After that, I'll get properly focused on TIE Fighter To...

When did you start to develop an interest in firearms? Mostly from video games, including Blood, Doom, Undying - most of them have shotguns of some sort. (The later Far Cry series even introduces different shotgun shell ammunition, for extra mission profiles.) My first time training in using and fi...

One other complicating factor about shotgun ammunition is its sheer size. The average 12 gauge shell is about 18.5mm in diameter, which is over twice the diameter (and thus over six times the cross sectional area) of a standard 9mm pistol bullet. Worse still, the shell is usually not uniformly rigid...

A word on ammunition for shotguns. Historical: Shotguns derive their name from the original type of ammunition they typically used - shot (i.e. small lead pellets, instead of single large bullets). Early shotguns were designed to hunt small game, especially rabbits and birds. You didn't need much ma...

I liked the cover art for Ultima 6: The False Prophet. https://www.altarofstone.com/forums/download/file.php?mode=view&id=593 The artwork itself was pretty commonplace, with the player's own in-game avatar (literally termed "The Avatar") portrayed as a heroic warrior standing across th...

Stephan Weyte turns 84 today!

Happy Birthday to a vocal mastermind!

(Intentionally ambiguous-looking birthday wishes image below.)

I just realized that the Roguelike game, Iratus Lord of the Dead, features Stephan Weyte's amazing gravelly voice talents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHYQQh0p41k It's available on GOG.com and features you as a sort of powerful lich necromancer assembling a squad of undead minions to escape your...

Not without my permission. There was a MOTGIAT who lived with me for a while, and we often went range shooting or sporting clays target shooting. The three traditional shotguns were common candidates for that exercise. I once took a friend and her tiny elderly European mother out to the forest range...

At this point, no plans for any more guns. My gun safe only has room for four long arm guns, so if I bought one, I'd have to get rid of one... and I'm very happy with my sport-shooting trio (Brownings) and my home defense S&W. Maybe if a gun should become irreparably damaged for whatever reason....

I've migrated out of "playing video games" to more "creating RPG play sessions" with my gaming group. I find the creative activities are more rewarding than pure consumption activities. HeroForge is my go-to for custom character creation, since you can play around with hundreds o...

I have also noticed that it is quite difficult to use two shotguns properly at the same time; I don't have the proper number of available limbs.

Perhaps the Guns Akimbo boost also gives extra hands?

Bullpup S&W M&P12.png Final shotgun! This is a "bullpup" shotgun, which is a term used for guns which are intentionally made shorter. In this case, they have pushed the trigger forwards along the gun (so the loading and ejecting is behind the trigger) to save space, and th...

Browning Auto5 12.png This is a semi-automatic (sometimes called "auto loading") shotgun. It has one barrel, and a more complex mechanism just in front of the trigger (where the greyish metal slide can be seen). The auto loading shotgun uses the expanding gases from each ammunition shot, ...

Browning Cynergy 12.png This a double-barreled shotgun - with barrels in "over and under" configuration (some older models were "side by side", but most shooters found the O/U arrangement to be much easier to aim). It's an older and heavier design, because each barrel adds a lot...

Browing BPS 12.png This is a pump shotgun. The ammunition goes into a magazine tube underneath the barrel, and the user needs to pull and push the wooden hand guard along the magazine to operate it between shots. This motion will eject any empty ammunition, and also feed a live ammunition into the ...