Does anyone know the standard (or minimum) number of rounds someone armed with a shotgun in WWI, WWII, or Vietnam would be carrying?
Does anyone know the standard (or minimum) number of rounds someone armed with a shotgun in WWI, WWII...
Jayden Cooper
Jayden Hall
About 75.
Benjamin Hughes
Does anyone know how they carried the rounds?
I suspect ye olde canvas sack but I have no basis for that.
Jaxson Cox
Lucas Fisher
One
Oliver Thomas
Veteran marines in the Pacific War would use the issued shotgun pouches and would acquire grenade pouches to stuff even more shells in them
Colton Young
Damn, that's badass
Hudson Lopez
Those pouches hold 32+ 6 im the gun is 38
Leo Reyes
Looks like all WWII to Vietnam based shotgun ammo pouches held 12 rounds and were designed to be attached to a belt. Which I guess most of the guys issued them would be guards and stuff unlike the guys in WWI who would be trench raiding
Noah White
I'd say two of those pouches and a 1911 with a few mags is a pretty decent loadout.
Mason Martin
He's got a nice smile. ^_^
Ethan Cooper
That's a lot of weight, granted if you are doing trench raiding I don't think you are carrying all your gear.
Joseph Lewis
Did Rhodesia have special webgear for their auto 8s?
Mason Morales
It looks like they have specific vests with shotgun bandoleers for their auto 5s
Nathan Hall
I bet that dude with the auto 8 really hates blacks
Leo Sanders
who doesn't?
Michael Rivera
They gave out that many sidearms?
Noah Green
Not to the average infantry but the guys carrying shotguns often had them, along with other specialized stuff
Charles Robinson
sidearms back then were far more widely proliferated than they are now
Levi Flores
It's probably the reverse actually, sidearms were considered a part of officer's dress, and were private purchase in many cases, the US was one of the relatively few places to have standard issue sidearms, but even then, they were either for officers or those who needed a weapon that could be used with one hand.
Landon Robinson
What other specialized stuff did they give shotgunners?
Elijah Wilson
200 rounds
Christopher Rogers
Shotgun shells
Ryder Thompson
eh, I'd argue that all the support personnel who would have been given handguns back then would be given carbines or an MP5 now, people like truck drivers, etc. plus
>private purchase
is totally off the table now, so the only people who have handguns are issued them whereas back then it'd have been nothing for PVT Schmuckatellei to have a piece shipped to him from home.
Landon Green
how many?
Jayden Watson
Or captured guns. Chris Cocks talks about how he kept a PPK he pulled off a dead guy in case he ever needed to blow his own brains out
William Brown
3.50
Camden Williams
2