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A rarer gas shotgun that can put out 5 BBs/shot without having to deal with annoying shells is the Marushin M500 SSB (6mm) and the ACM clone of it. BBs are held in the tubular magazine shotgun shells would go in. The gas reservoir on the clone tends to be problematic (leaks), dunno how reliable the Marushin one is. There's no hopup, but given that its a shotgun, it's neither long range nor do I want 5 BBs going into the same hole anyway, and this allows me to use the shotgun at any angle (urban prone, for example).
It sounds very realistic racking it, but the shot is just an NBB "pop" (you know what I mean). Mixing BB weights can produce interesting patterns. Since it has 3 separate 6mm magazine (rotating) you can load different combinations, too, as long you remember which one is which and put some kind of indexing mark on the front knob. But you could load one tube with just .12s for more of a close range open choke/birdshot pattern, etc.
Be careful, there are multiple versions of this shotgun (3 shot/8mm, single shot, etc)
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