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A shotgun Ammo (also known as a scattergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which usually discharges numerous small pellet-like spherical sub-projectiles called shot, or sometimes a single solid projectile called a slug.

Shotguns are most commonly smoothbore firearms, meaning that their gun barrels have no rifling on the inner wall, but rifled barrels for shooting slugs (slug barrels) are also available. Buy SHOTGUN AMMO online

Shotguns come in a wide variety of calibers and gauges, ranging from 5.5 mm (.22 inch) to up to 5 cm (2.0 in). The 12-gauge (18.53 mm or 0.729 in) and 20-gauge (15.63 mm or 0.615 in) bores are by far the most common.

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Almost all shotguns are breechloading and can be single-barreled, double-barreled, or a combination gun. Like rifles, shotguns also come in a range of different action types, both single-shot and repeating. For non-repeating designs, over-and-under and side-by-side break-action shotguns are by far the most common variants. Although revolving shotguns did exist, most modern repeating shotguns are either pump-action or semi-automatic and, to a lesser extent, fully automatic, lever-action, or bolt-action.

Preceding smoothbore firearms (such as the musket) were widely used by armies in the 18th century. The muzzleloading blunderbuss, the direct ancestor of the shotgun, was also used in similar roles from self-defense to riot control. Shotguns were often favored by cavalry troops in the early to mid-19th century because of their ease of use and generally good effectiveness on the move, as well as by coachmen for their substantial power. But by the late 19th century, these weapons became largely replaced on the battlefield by breechloading rifled firearms shooting spin-stabilized cylinder-conoidal bullets, which were far more accurate with longer effective ranges.

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The smoothbore shotgun barrel generates less resistance, allowing greater propellant loads for heavier projectiles without as much risk of overpressure or a squib load. It is also easier to clean. Shot pellets from a shotshell are propelled indirectly through a wadding inside the shell and scatter upon leaving the barrel, which is usually choked at the muzzle end to control the projectile scatter.

This means each shotgun discharge will produce a cluster of impact points instead of a single point of impact like other firearms. Having multiple projectiles also means the muzzle energy is divided among the pellets, leaving each projectile with less penetrative kinetic energy. The lack of spin stabilization and the generally suboptimal aerodynamic shape of the shot pellets also make them less accurate and decelerate quite quickly in flight due to drag, giving shotguns short effective ranges.

In a hunting context, this makes shotguns useful primarily for hunting fast-flying birds and other agile small/medium-sized games without risking overpenetration and stray shots to distant bystanders and objects.