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>>2431658
I was specifically inferring WW1 Germans, but there's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae#Solifugids_and_humans

>During World War I, troops stationed in Abū Qīr, Egypt would stage fights between captive "jerrymanders," as they referred to them, and placed bets on the outcome. Similarly, British troops stationed in Libya in World War II would stage fights between solifugids and scorpions.[5]:2–3

>>2431661
Nah, unless we're talking like birdshot or something, but buckshot and anything else would keep together in pretty tight pattern up to maybe 75ft or so. Shotguns really aren't as inaccurate as vidya would have it.

The aforementioned Doom 3 shotgun has an absolutely ludicrous spread at a 45 degree angle directly from the muzzle and is absolutely impossible in real life, and if it was, nobody would ever use that for a security force because it would be fucking dangerous to bystanders. Not to talk about how useless it would be for hunting, Jesus, if shotguns spread like that in real life nobody would hunt with them because you'd have to get up in the face of your moose to hit him at all.

The original pump shotgun in Doom 1 and the shotgun in Duke Nukem 3D have some manner of unrealistic spread to them, but the fact that you can consistently score a pretty solid pattern on a monster across a courtyard in terms of distance makes those guns much more real and plausible.