Is it considered as a shotgun?

[Mike Oxbig]

I just bought one of these. It's got way too much recoil for me so it's on the EE now. (if you have to ask then you can't afford it)
If Beretta made it, it would have the KickOff and would be easily shot from the shoulder.
One shot gets you everything in 1/8 of a WMU at once.
Bring lots of tags!

 

[KaiBosh]

Yeah, ummm... That is *really* nasty. shudder

 

[sunray]

"...out in the marsh..." Tanks don't go where the bulrushes grow. Picture that with flechettes. Called a 'beehive' round from the sound it makes. Made for sweeping the battlefield of those pesky TOW shooting PBI.
"...camera on the shot pattern..." The magic of power traversed slow motion cameras.

 

[bigstickpilot]

several things interest me here: did you note that the shot string has a single shock wave, even as it disperses? The shot cup is amazingly ballistic, staying with the shot string a long, long way, despite tumbling. Lastly, judging by dust thrown up from groundstrikes, the dispersion seems to be more lateral than vertical. Certainly not circular like my shotgun patterns.

 

[w squared]

I believe it's a smoothbore 120mm, so it is probably not accidental that the dispersion is more lateral than vertical. Not sure how they'd accomplish that, but it'd make sense.