A shotgun is a smoothbore firearm that has no spiral grooved cut on the inner surface of the gun barrel like the rifle. Designed to fire a number of pellets simultaneously, it is used primarily in hunting small game, particularly birds. The first...

Lead shot refers to the small pellets that are fired by shotguns while hunting waterfowl or upland fowl, or while skeet shooting. Most lead shots miss their target and are dissipated into the environment. Because the shot is within the particle-size...

The constriction of the barrel of a shotgun to reduce the spread of shot as it leaves the gun to increase its effective range. FIGURE C.13 Chemical regents used for the staining of spermatozoa or sperm...

A smooth-bore shoulder firearm designed to fire shotshells containing numerous pellets or sometimes a single...

A shotgun (also known as a fowling piece[1] or scattergun[2]) is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of the explosive in a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot or a solid...

Shotgun or ballistic breaching is a necessary option for law enforcement tactical specialists. And it is truly an art form. At its highest level, this kind of force entry option is practiced by true masters of the art. Forcing entry into structures where those...

Any scattergun is fine for a day at the range, but these seasoned guides and professional hunters know which smoothbores can withstand the rigors of hot-barrel hunting. Back in the early 1970s, relatively few shotgunners left this country to go hunting international...

Rodney King, whose videotaped police beating in 1991 led to deadly rioting when the officers involved were acquitted, was shot on a street corner, but his wounds were not life-threatening, police said.King, 42, was shot two or three times from a distance by birdshot fired...

The man is cool as a cucumber. From the look on Petter Solberg's face, you'd never know we're flying around a damp Spanish racetrack in his 300-plus-bhp Subaru WRC rally car. His eyes calmly survey the rushing landscape as his hands and feet confidently work...