Is Boomstick Perk Worth It?

[Lenny Rat]

I've read a lot of older posts, but cannot see if anybody recently has found this perk to be especially effective. You would think that a dbl barrel 12 gauge with slugs would have some serious stopping power; albeit with lower range.

Any feedback out there?

[Nightwalker]

Actually, a large percentage of prof guides in Alaska carry a shot gun with slugs when tracking wounded bears due to the phenom stopping power. Not sure what firing both barrels into a target would do to the integrity bonus.

[Rocket Witch]

I usually have it set since I'm not a fan of Zeroing. It doesn't always activate properly.

Integrity with slugs will vary a lot with species; could literally be anything from 0% to 100%. I don't think there's an integrity list showing results of multiple shots. Pellet shot hit count didn't generally impact integrity before the shotgun overhaul in 2019; I'm not sure about now.

Two slugs will diverge by 4-8 inches (smoothbore gun after all), potentially hitting entirely different organs, but usually with a classic shot (broadside lung) you will have two projectiles impacting the same 'bleed zone' and not really doing double the damage, or at least that's my perception.

[Kossatz]

Boomstick activation is bugged. After you trigger it, you’ll have only 4 seconds to shoot both barrels, not 15 seconds as shown at the countdown. After 4 secs, it will fire a single barrel as usual.

[Vasious]

I have had good results with it on larger animals
But with scoring 2.0 Integrity allows two shots so will allow it to be use on a lot more

[cbrrrman]

100 % sure I never bothered.

[Ghost 1_3]

Originally posted by Vassal of the Wan Clan:

Two slugs will diverge by 4-8 inches (smoothbore gun after all), potentially hitting entirely different organs, but usually with a classic shot (broadside lung) you will have two projectiles impacting the same 'bleed zone' and not really doing double the damage, or at least that's my perception.

Hopefully they integrate an actual "Slug Gun". Growing up hunting, there are special regulation areas that do not allow the use of rifles while hunting. Usually has something to do with human population density. When we would hunt these areas, we would use shotguns and slug guns.

What is great about slug guns is that it is a shotgun with a rifled barrel. Using a slug gun and a sabot slug (allows for the rifling to have an effect on the round) you could make very accurate shots out to about 100 yards, max 150 yards.

Now these slug guns can not take birdshot or buckshot as you will destroy the rifling in the barrel and potentially have a catastrophic malfunction (AKA the barrel exploding). Its also not great for them to use regular slugs as the regular slugs usually have grooving on them to slightly assist with that stabilizing spin due to the smooth bore. Using a regular slug and damage the rifling in the slug gun barrel.

[Lenny Rat]

Originally posted by Ghost 1_3:

Originally posted by Vassal of the Wan Clan:

Two slugs will diverge by 4-8 inches (smoothbore gun after all), potentially hitting entirely different organs, but usually with a classic shot (broadside lung) you will have two projectiles impacting the same 'bleed zone' and not really doing double the damage, or at least that's my perception.

Hopefully they integrate an actual "Slug Gun". Growing up hunting, there are special regulation areas that do not allow the use of rifles while hunting. Usually has something to do with human population density. When we would hunt these areas, we would use shotguns and slug guns.

What is great about slug guns is that it is a shotgun with a rifled barrel. Using a slug gun and a sabot slug (allows for the rifling to have an effect on the round) you could make very accurate shots out to about 100 yards, max 150 yards.

Now these slug guns can not take birdshot or buckshot as you will destroy the rifling in the barrel and potentially have a catastrophic malfunction (AKA the barrel exploding). Its also not great for them to use regular slugs as the regular slugs usually have grooving on them to slightly assist with that stabilizing spin due to the smooth bore. Using a regular slug and damage the rifling in the slug gun barrel.

Excellent point! +1

I also used those for deer in Michigan. In many areas only slug was allowed.

Please put it in the suggestions subforum.

[MRE]

Originally posted by Ghost 1_3:

Originally posted by Vassal of the Wan Clan:

Two slugs will diverge by 4-8 inches (smoothbore gun after all), potentially hitting entirely different organs, but usually with a classic shot (broadside lung) you will have two projectiles impacting the same 'bleed zone' and not really doing double the damage, or at least that's my perception.

Hopefully they integrate an actual "Slug Gun". Growing up hunting, there are special regulation areas that do not allow the use of rifles while hunting. Usually has something to do with human population density. When we would hunt these areas, we would use shotguns and slug guns.

What is great about slug guns is that it is a shotgun with a rifled barrel. Using a slug gun and a sabot slug (allows for the rifling to have an effect on the round) you could make very accurate shots out to about 100 yards, max 150 yards.

Now these slug guns can not take birdshot or buckshot as you will destroy the rifling in the barrel and potentially have a catastrophic malfunction (AKA the barrel exploding). Its also not great for them to use regular slugs as the regular slugs usually have grooving on them to slightly assist with that stabilizing spin due to the smooth bore. Using a regular slug and damage the rifling in the slug gun barrel.

You can use normal slugs in a rifled barrel just fine, it even increases accuracy! And normal birdshot and stuff won't be an issue in most rifled barrels, it just greatly increases the spread.

Rifled slugs in smoothbore shotguns aren't spin stabilized enough to matter; the rifling is there to reduce the impact of imperfections in the slug and barrel, and to make them less damaging to chokes if fired through one.

[AintJaMama (Joe/BrotherBoaz)]

I posted it in the beta feedback and on reddit. I would love to see 12g slugs added to cover class 9. IRL arguments aside, it would add more variety to the game and make boomstick a bit more appealing. If you can get within 40/25 meters of your big game and land 2 clean vital shots, you should be able to pick up your trophy.