Did the British really use the shotgun from Americans in WW2

Takao · Jan 25, 2017

Terry D said:

Also, that site is infested with pop-ups and bogus "warnings" of problems with your system, etc. I wouldn't tell anyone I liked to follow that link.
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That is why, if you are using a Mozilla based browser, you get the NoScript extension.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoScript

Poppy · Jan 26, 2017

Sheldrake said:

I have never seen any. Furthermore a shot gun isn't a force field

This a thread which deserves to be put out of its misery. Various posts all extolling the supposed virtues of the military shotgun.

Here is a link to some British men who carried a shot gun in WW2. http://www.paoyeomanry.co.uk/PM/LYWW2RA153.htm The Colonel and majors all took a gun with them to war and particuarly valued them while on coastal defence work in East Anglia. There was good shooting on the marshes.... The guns were valued alonmg with the dogs and horses they maintained in the UK.

But the shotguns wasn't the weapon which worried the Germans. They did have an awesome weapon to pepper the germans with shot- The MIKE TARGET would put zillions of more fragments in German occupied space and had a far greater impact that the damned fantasy of pup action shotguns.

Despite the fantasy of US shot gun enthusiasts, or the donations to the Home Guard, none of the British, Germans of the US Army made wholesale deployment of military shot guns in the ETO or MTO. Section weapons were rifles, SMG and LMG. If pump action shot guns were use useful, can you show me the unit establishment for these weapons?.
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Pfft.
Did you even try to look up - shotguns used to shoot german grenades-?..force field indeed.
http://www.trapshooters.com/threads/trapshooting-hand-grenades-anyone-confirm.156627/

beachbangclear.com, MAD DUO, Aug 31/2016
"Stories abound of doughboys using their 97’s to shoot German Potato Masher grenades out of the air like birds on the wing."
Good read- http://www.breachbangclear.com/wtw-the-trench-shotgun-by-ian-mccollum/

A-58 · Jan 27, 2017

Terry D said:

I think that is a little much, as in too much weight, expense, and complexity for what is after all a short-range weapon.
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Well yeah, but I just said that it was cool. No mention of it being practical. Besides, it doesn't have a bayonet lug on it.

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