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When we (and I mean<\/em> we as I include myself in this statement) think of US Military small arms, we do not usually include shotguns.\u00a0 When we think of the great American fighting arms of the past, we have visions of the 1911, M1 Garand, M-16, 1903 Springfield and maybe even a Bazooka before we picture the lowly scatter gun.\u00a0 So lets take a quick look through history and into the present at the shotguns that have served our men and women in uniform.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Smoothbore Musket<\/h2>\n
\"An<\/a>

An 1842 Springfield Musket.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am going to lump these together: The Brown Bess, Charleville, 1816 and 1842 Springfields are the main smooth bore muskets used in American history. Technically this is a musket and not a shotgun, but that is a pretty fine line. They both have a smooth bore and can fire multiple projectiles so it works for my definition of a shotgun for this article.\u00a0 The shotgun type load mostly associated with the musket is buck and ball.\u00a0 It is just like the name sounds.\u00a0 A ball, usually around .69 caliber, with 2 or 3 pieces of buck shot with it.\u00a0 The musket is not an accurate weapon.\u00a0 The idea of adding the buck shot was to increase the number of hits on enemy troops when firing volleys.\u00a0 It worked too.\u00a0 George Washington was a supporter of its use during the Revolution and its use continued until the Civil War when the Mini Ball changed the game.\u00a0\u00a0 The concept is not dead either.\u00a0 Winchester<\/a> <\/a>has a modern buck and ball type shot shell in its Defender line.<\/p>\n

Buy one on Guns America: \/Search.aspx?T=musket<\/a><\/p>\n

Winchester 97 Trench Gun<\/h2>\n
\"Winchester<\/a>

Winchester M97 Trench gun with bayonet.<\/p><\/div>\n

It is hard to make a list of US Military arms and not have a John Browning design show up.\u00a0 The 97 Winchester<\/a><\/a> is the one for this list. The trench gun version of the 97 had a 20 inch barrel and added a heat shield around the barrel.\u00a0 It also included a bayonet lug and, like the civilian version, had an exposed hammer.\u00a0 The 97 was the primary shotgun used by the Dough Boys in WWI.\u00a0 It was at home in the muddy trenches of that war.\u00a0 The short barrel and the 00 buck shot loads were devastating on German and other Central Power troops.\u00a0 The Germans even tried to have it outlawed during the war under the protest that it caused unnecessary suffering.\u00a0 The 97 was updated in 1912 and was given the trench gun treatment.\u00a0 The 1912 was the primary shotgun used during the 2nd World War.<\/p>\n

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Ithaca 37<\/h2>\n
\"Two<\/a>

Two Ithaca Model 37s. The one on top is in the military configuration. You can see why the shot spreader got the duck bill nickname.<\/p><\/div>\n

Whoops.\u00a0 Another John Browning design slipped in.\u00a0 The Ithaca 37<\/a> <\/a>is a cool shotgun. I have held the thought that it might be the best combat shotgun design ever for one simple reason: It loads and ejects from the bottom.\u00a0 Gravity is helping the spent cases get clear of the action and the open bottom allows for the dirt, mud and other muck, that will find its way into a combat firearm, to fall free. The Ithaca saw use during WWII and into Vietnam.\u00a0 During Vietnam the early Navy Seal teams used the 37 with a duck bill shot spreader and an extended magazine tube.\u00a0 Like the two Winchester shotguns above, the old Ithaca 37s will slam fire.\u00a0 This means, if you hold down the trigger, every time you rack the action and load a shell it will go bang.\u00a0 A slam fire shotgun in the hands of a practiced shooter can give an autoloader a run for its money. Ithaca is still around and making the 37 today.<\/p>\n

Buy one on Guns America: \/ithaca37<\/a><\/p>\n

Remington 870<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

The current version of the M870.<\/p><\/div>\n

When you think of a pump-action shotgun the Remington<\/a> <\/a>870 is always one of the first that comes to mind.\u00a0 It has been in production since 1951 and is the best selling shotgun ever made with over 10,000,000 produced.\u00a0 That says a lot for the design, and the design is a strong, reliable and robust one.\u00a0 All of which make it a great candidate for a military arm. The M870 has been in service for so long and with so many variants there really isn’t a distinctive model.\u00a0 It is still in use today, even.\u00a0 It is a work horse of a shotgun. It is not just used by our military either.\u00a0 Tons of Law Enforcement agencies use the 870 as their issue shotgun. I was issued one when I was an LE National Park Ranger.\u00a0 And like many of you reading this article, there is one in my safe.\u00a0 Or is it loaded and in the closet? That is a good place for an 870 too.<\/p>\n

Buy one on Guns America: \/remington870<\/a><\/p>\n

Benelli M1014<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

The Benelli M1014.<\/p><\/div>\n

That brings us to the most modern and the only autoloader on the list, the Benelli <\/a><\/a>M1014. The M1014, the civilian version is called the M4, was designed for test trials for a new semi automatic combat shotgun for the US Military.\u00a0 The trials were held in 1999 and the Benelli won.\u00a0 The M1014 was actually the first gas operated shotgun that Benelli designed.\u00a0 It uses a rotating bolt as well.\u00a0 The military version sports a 14.5 inch barrel and has a collapsible butt stock.<\/p>\n

Buy one on Guns America: \/benellim4<\/a><\/p>\n

So there are 5 scatter guns used by the US Military.\u00a0 There are plenty of other that have seen use, the Mossberg 590 is a notable example as well.\u00a0 Any of these would also make a great home defense shotgun.\u00a0 Well maybe not a smoothbore musket.\u00a0 They are awfully long for one thing.\u00a0 The single shot is another issue.\u00a0 Although the amount of smoke from firing a black powder musket inside your house would probably act as a smoke screen while you grabbed a trench gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we, and I mean we as I include myself in this statement, think of US Military small arms it does not usually include a shotgun. When we think of the great American fighting arms of the past we have visions of the 1911, M1 Garand, M-16, 1903 Springfield and probably even a Bazooka before we picture the lowly scatter gun. So lets take a quick look through history and into the present at the shotguns that have served our men and women in uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":34320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,257,88,1],"tags":[132,108],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-historical-guns","9":"category-sam-trisler","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"tag-buzz","12":"tag-guns"},"yoast_head":"\nTop 5 US Military Scatter Guns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We take a look at 5 shotguns used by the US Military through out history and the present. 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