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_dfad_ wrote:How 20 GA works?
Well, you fire, the duck escapes. This happens again and again. Much later you harvest a duck and see that you had hit it twice already.

To be fair, even the bigger shotguns will rarely kill a duck from 50+ meters with one shot. Why don't you fire while the duck is closer?

Tanngnjostr wrote:Why don't you fire while the duck is closer?

Just because it's big enough to aim already.
Ok, I'll try. But I have much less non-fatal hits with single shot 12 GA shotgun.

_dfad_ wrote:

Tanngnjostr wrote:Why don't you fire while the duck is closer?

Just because it's big enough to aim already.
Ok, I'll try. But I have much less non-fatal hits with single shot 12 GA shotgun.

I agree here, the 12GA is more efficient than the 20GA. But it will also take a bit of luck to kill a flying duck from 50+ meters with one shot, even with the 12GA.

Underwhelming and seemingly less effecting than a 16ga or 12ga gun. One type of cardridge and no scopes making it a one role gun. Not a fan.

rhapsodaisical wrote:Underwhelming and seemingly less effecting than a 16ga or 12ga gun.

Nothing strange.

One type of cardridge and no scopes making it a one role gun.

Duck/geese semi-automatic gun to shoot groups of ducks. With some skills, you do 4 shots with this shotgun before ducks fly away - 3 loaded already, then partial reload and one more shot - and with some luck this allows you to get 5 ducks. Not bad.

Tanngnjostr wrote:To be fair, even the bigger shotguns will rarely kill a duck from 50+ meters with one shot. Why don't you fire while the duck is closer?

My 10 GA would like to chat with you!

nachthexe wrote:

Tanngnjostr wrote:To be fair, even the bigger shotguns will rarely kill a duck from 50+ meters with one shot. Why don't you fire while the duck is closer?

My 10 GA would like to chat with you!

**Edit: Added another showcase photo**

Rated: Good

Pros

• Semi-Automatic
• 3-round Magazine
• Lightest Shotgun Ammunition (0.75 capacity)
• Simple and True Bead Sight

Cons

• Expensive (considering its limited features now)
• 3-round Magazine
• Only Birdshot
• Least Range (Comparable to 16GA)

Comments
After the release of the 12GA Maisto, this shotgun group seems to have been reduced to a role of obscurity, only being necessary for a handful of missions.
More so since the 12GA Maisto is the same price (650 em$/ 11050 gm$) and benefits from replenished ammo of 3 different types.

Looking at the small-game scattergun that the 20GA is, it performs very efficiently on rabbits, waterfowl, and upland birds until 40m.
Past 40m, animals will need another hit to take them down, but the semi-auto action makes up for it.

The handling and performance is comparable to the 16GA except without the external hammers and an extra shell in the tube.
I like the sight picture on the 20GA since it seems to place patterns nicely centered above the bead, much like the 12GA Single Shot Shotgun.

Since the gun model seems to feature an extended, ported choke on the muzzle, would it be possible to tighten the shot cloud a bit more?
This could be the (re)defining characteristic for the 20GA semi-auto shotgun, being the tightest patterning shotgun of the lot.
Just a thought...



At 40 meters or less is where this shotgun performs best