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According to a Meta Post I found this is the right place to ask this kind of question. I apparently can't find the post anymore but it pointed towards this subsite.

Yesterday I had an argument (for almost an hour) over whether in the end of Season 1 Chapter 2 of the Walking Dead game, this character called Andy was holding a rifle or a shotgun.

To show it there's two screenshots on imgur and a walkthrough video which is set to the specific time frame where the gun gets shown.

https://i.sstatic.net/JFmXu.jpg

https://i.sstatic.net/kM3Sb.jpg

https://youtu.be/_zjJqegIG8c?t=7456

Here are my arguments that show that it's clearly a rifle:

  • There's only one barrel
  • There's not enough place for slugs and loading extra ones
  • The "carving-in" is for holding the rifle
  • The understock looks like a rifle's
  • The muzzle and sound look and sound like a rifle's
  • There's a loading chamber for a rifle with the pulling thingy

The arguments for a shotgun:

  • Supposedly it has a shotgun loading mechanism
  • There is supposedly a compartment for the slugs, even though it's so thin
  • Sound doesn't matter, because the game designers made it so

We agreed upon the fact it's a rather old gun and definitely not a modern one.

My questions would be:

  • So which one is it?
  • What kind of model is it (if it's not fictional?)
Sir Muffington
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It's neither or both or whatever you want

Evidence for rifle: It's drawn like a bolt action rifle with a small magazine

Evidence for Shotgun: The barrel is large like a shotgun

Evidence for neither: It's handled like a semi-automatic rifle (action wasn't cycled after the shot); there isn't room to eject a shell from the action; and the bolt cycle wouldn't be enough to put an actual shell into the action either manually or through the magazine.

This is a made-up weapon made up by people for whom accuracy wasn't a concern.

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From 2:04:20 to 2:04:21, there is a large spark (white then turns red) coming out of the barrel, does this tell something? It looks like a shotgun to me.

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