Combat Shotgun (Fallout 3)

The Combat Shotgun is a common Fallout 3 weapon.

Characteristics
The weapon appears to be functionally identical to its predecessors while its design has changed significantly. It now resembles the famous WWII era Soviet PPSh-41 submachine gun with a wooden stock and an Armsel Striker-style drum magazine mounted very close to the muzzle of the gun as opposed to being made entirely out of metal with a bullpup configuration. The unique form of this gun is The Terrible Shotgun.

Strategy
The Combat Shotgun is especially useful against Mirelurks and other melee fighters that prefer to charge you.

If you want to see the Combat Shotgun at its best, wait for a dog/molerat to leap up at you, quickly enter V.A.T.S. and fire at the head.

Companions
Charon wields an apparently unique shotgun that does not deteriorate, has infinite ammo, and has a unique firing spread. It will fire almost perfectly straight with a very tight spread that hardly gets wider. It cannot be interacted with.

Behind the scenes
Judging by its look, this shotgun's appearance was inspired by existing firearm(s):
 * The PPSh-41 (Pistolet-Pulemyot Shpagina) - the overall appearance, fire selector switch located inside the trigger guard, the barrel's protruding muzzle-brake and the drum magazine. The way the reloading procedure is operated also points to the real PPSh-41. However the real life counterpart is loaded 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridges and has a magazine capacity of 71.
 * The Pancor Jackhammer, which is another shotgun that feeds from a drum and has a similar muzzle shape.

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