Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "The Unique Challenges of Self-Loading Shotgun Design" video.

  1. Ian forgot one. Due to the rapid decrease in pressure in the barrel, and so decrease in temperature, shotgun shells are ineherently dirtier than smallbore bottleneck ammo. That’s why recoil actions had remained relevant for so long in shotguns (and still are) while they had become little more than a curiosity in rifles, and that’s why gas action shotguns have complex self-cleaning pistons, often with multiple ribs, while rifles have much simpler ones.
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  2. Also Beretta 300 series. The first really reliable shotgun gas action.
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  3. You can. Long recoil is a great design, and still somewhat relevant, but if you ask to professional operators, like Argentine outfitters, whose rented guns shoot hundreds and evem more than a thousand rounds a day, so any of their guns is used to exhaustion, you can't beat the Beretta 300 series for durability and reliability.
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  4. Until you induce a malfunction in the worst possible moment because your body doesn't work the same under stress. Same with revolvers. Autoloaders always work the same.
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  5.  @bryangrote8781  Ian forgot one issue with shotgun shells. Due to the rapid decrease in pressure in the barrel, and so decrease in temperature, shotgun shells are ineherently dirtier than smallbore bottleneck ammo. That’s why recoil actions had remained relevant for so long in shotguns (and still are) while they had become little more than a curiosity in rifles, and that’s why gas action shotguns have complex self-cleaning pistons, often with multiple ribs, while rifles have much simpler ones. The disassembly of the Auto-5 is really not the simplest, but other long recoil action shotguns simplified it a lot.
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