An Idea for a Gas Shotgun

[Bully Dog Airsoft]

Wouldn't it be cool if there was an automatic shotgun like a rem 1100 or one of benelli's tactical shotguns? Having it gas blow back without anoying shells that you would have to pick up. A Striker 12ga would be a cool reproduction! Or an AA12!

[satallite]

Those are nice,

But, I want an over-under. I think that would be cool.

[Bully Dog Airsoft]

Yeah that would be cool.

[Kingarmssniper]

Wouldn't it be cool if there was an automatic shotgun like a rem 1100 or one of benelli's tactical shotguns? Having it gas blow back without anoying shells that you would have to pick up. A Striker 12ga would be a cool reproduction! Or an AA12!

Building an aa12 replica would be a nightmare I should think. Everything from the mags to the body shape is completely unique you would have to build from scratch. Would it be internally powered? Have the gas stored in magazine? External?

How would it shoot multiple bbs for a decent spread? 3++ inner barrels? I'm not ripping your idea it would be close to EPIC for there to be an airsoft AA12 shotgun and would no doubt be at the top of most peoples cqb dream gun list. The closest platform i can think to build it off of would be like the CAW revolving launcher. Sure its semi auto but its the only gun i can think of that does as great a job at clearing up in cqb as the aa12 could do...

Awww dreams

[Bully Dog Airsoft]

Idk,I was thinking you could have the mag like this, having 4 seperate feeds with say 20-30 rounds each, then when you load it you load all four at once in to one barrel. What do you think?

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[XavierMace]

How do you anticipate feeding 4 BB's at once?  If you are planning on 4 separate nozzles and feed tubes, that's going to have to be one huge mag to fit all of that.

[I Slap Fat Kids]

Well, with a multiple barrel design, he could manage to get them to feed similar to the TSD Tri-Barrel shotguns.

[busta_cap]

The real issue with a shotgun for airsoft is that in a real engagement, shotguns are meant for breaching doors, and taking out targets at a short distance unless you are using slugs..

rarely are their true CQB events where this would come in handy..I guess if you did do one it would be cool for breaching doors  and taking blind shots..

[XavierMace]

Well, with a multiple barrel design, he could manage to get them to feed similar to the TSD Tri-Barrel shotguns.

Except we are talking about gas power and magazine fed.  I don't see you coming up with a system to accomplish this with any sort of reliability.

[Bully Dog Airsoft]

Or have Mad Bull manufacture a shell that can have rubber or foam slugs also have the capability to accept their 5 or 6 shot C02 Shot shells, just keep the barrel 12ga size, you don't really need a full length barrel for the 6 or 5 shot co2 shot shells. Like you said they are for breeching and cqb engagement. also those mags on the Striker and the AA12 are HUGE, and after all Airsoft guns are supposed to be 1:1 replicas so why make the mag smaller. The trick would be getting the automatic system to be sensitive enough to blow back and eject the shell with the CO2 shells.

As seen in this video, this is what I do with my 870 it works really well, I know it probably isn't legal but I don't have $180 extra bucks to get a m500 gas shotgun. Since my 870 was given to me I didn't have to spend a crap load of money haha, and besides with slugs and even Double 00 that thing kicks worse than my bush wood tractor axle haha (K98 Turkish) And also yes I painted the tip orange can't be too safe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX_UmtD7KP4

CO2 powaed wemmingtin!  

[I Slap Fat Kids]

Except we are talking about gas power and magazine fed.  I don't see you coming up with a system to accomplish this with any sort of reliability.

The TSD's do use magazines (the shell sold 30 bb's or so).  They work with one feed tube that splits into three inside of the gun.  If it were a GBB, one might be able to find a way to get it to work.  Maybe not necessarily Bully Dog (no offense meant) because I doubt he has the resources to create a reliably working one.

[Bully Dog Airsoft]

Nah I wouldn't make a shotgun with tsd shells, and no offence taken I don't think that I'll be making any type of shotguns like that for a while haha. I would much rather have the gun come with the gas shells so it blows back and stuff.

You could probably make this cool shotgun with the tsd shells if you modded them a bit maybe put a seal on the back and have the gas come from behind it instead of a firing pin, check it out haha. Awesomeness although it doesn't feed to well it is still cool to see someone make this, it would be even sweeter as an airsoft gun haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX7vwivR6cE

[I Slap Fat Kids]

No, no.  I don't like the idea of shells, I was just stating that the TSD's use magazines and still shoot multiple rounds at a time.

I'm saying that you could use a similar, and I use the term similar loosely, system to the one found in the TSD's that replaces the spring power with gas power.  It would take much more gas than the usual GBB, but I think someone could get a system similar, again used loosely, to that to work.

[Bully Dog Airsoft]

True true,  :-k But...you could always make a shell catch out of mesh like some m16/m4 rifles have. I don't like the idea of a shell ejecting shotgun either but that is kind of the point of an automatic shotgun. For obvious reasons any shell ejecting shotgun would probably be strictly an indoor cqb weapon unless you use a mesh shell catch. I know tyring to find shells on any battle field is a pain! :|

[I Slap Fat Kids]

I know they sell shell catches for shotguns, I've seen them before.