The Heavy Automatic Shotgun (Abzats)

[Stryker]

After having completed Metro 2033 two times (for both endings) I've found that in general the Abzats seems to be the most useful weapon around. That got me thinking - is it possible to actually build one?


High ammo capacity (20 shells before reloading? Yes, please.).
High damage (my premier go-to weapon for taking down Librarians...And Demons.).
Insanely high RoF for a shotgun. (It's a bloody Light Machine Gun that fires shotgun shells. What more do you want?).


So;

Would it be possible to build a real life version of the Abzats? (Modified of course, depending on what type of LMG you use [i.e. Browning .50 cal instead of DShK 12.7mm MG].)

Well? The Metro wikia says it's just a LMG that has been rechambered and rebored to fire shotgun shells. Google searches turns up information on how to rechamber and rebore rifles, so why not LMGs.

Thoughts?

[Kram Noollow]

Get a therapist ;)

[Stryker]

So we're going to hire a therapist to build one....Totally legit.

[aaa a a aa AAA]

well there are full auto shotguns, i think that's possible
that is until a gun nut comes in and crushes our dreams

[Kram Noollow]

Originally posted by Stryker:

So we're going to hire a therapist to build one....Totally legit.

Someones obviously never met Hannibal Lecter, best in the business

[Stryker]

Originally posted by Dr.Sandvich:

Someones obviously never met Hannibal Lecter, best in the business

HERETIC! The Joker > Lector.

[Kram Noollow]

Originally posted by Stryker:

Originally posted by Dr.Sandvich:

Someones obviously never met Hannibal Lecter, best in the business

HERETIC! The Joker > Lector.

Get the ♥♥♥♥ out of my life. I meet one more Nolan fanboy and Ill eat them with some fava beans and a nice chianti >:(

[Pelaf]

You could make a real one, yeah, but I don't know if you could modify an MG's receiver to fit the shells. . .

[Stryker]

Originally posted by Dr.Sandvich:

Originally posted by Stryker:

HERETIC! The Joker > Lector.

Get the ♥♥♥♥ out of my life. I meet one more Nolan fanboy and Ill eat them with some fava beans and a nice chianti >:(

Nah, not a Nolan fanboy - just seems that everyone pales in comparison to The Joker. There's a reason they call him the Clown Prince of Crime.

Edit: One person does beat Joker - Grand Moff Tarkin.

[Kram Noollow]

Originally posted by Stryker:

Originally posted by Dr.Sandvich:

Get the ♥♥♥♥ out of my life. I meet one more Nolan fanboy and Ill eat them with some fava beans and a nice chianti >:(

Nah, not a Nolan fanboy - just seems that everyone pales in comparison to The Joker. There's a reason they call him the Clown Prince of Crime.

Edit: One person does beat Joker - Grand Moff Tarkin.

If its the Hamill Joker thats cool, he is pretty damn awesome.
Tarkin is a fave though, we talking movie villains?

Because:
Bill The Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis)
Frank (Henry Fonda)
HAL 9000
Col Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz)
and finally Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman)

ROCK that category in my experience ;D

[VSnares606]

As a gunsmith, yes it's possible to modify a lot of weapons into a different caliber, but these are mostly handguns and rifles.

To modify a machine gun into a machine shotgun you would have to do a lot of machine work on the guts of the gun to accomodate a new bolt, new magwell, etc. You would have to switch barrels to something that would have some semblance of accuracy with buckshot/slugs instead of cartridges.

All of this would take a lot of machine work, and it surprises me that people in the Metro still have the knowledge and tools to start rechambering whole weapon systems into something completely different, but still very useful in the confines of an abandoned Metro.

TLDR: Yes, it's possible.

[JolyJew СлаваУкраине]

A. Abzatz is not the best weapon in the game, it chews ammo like crazy and has the weakest muzzle velocity (aka damage) of all the shotguns, the Uboynik has a lot better damage per shell and has a kick ass bayonet (i kill librarians with bayonet alone)

B. fully automatic shotguns already exist, AA12 is the best example. the reson the Abzats is reverse enginered from an MG is because these are the parts available to the gunsmiths in the metro.

C. yes, its possible, but you need to know a lot about gun creatin and proper factory apparatus to do it.