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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://imgur.com/a/IAwuJJn

https://imgur.com/a/7ay8mEB

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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  • why are you asking here about a video game developer's choices? – jsotola Dec 17 '21 at 18:08
  • @jsotola I am not asking about that, the opposite party only specified that as an argument, hence I'm just quoting that opinion – Sir Muffington Dec 17 '21 at 18:44
  • you are at an engineering website, asking a question about an imaginary device after you wasted an hour of your life arguing about the same ... only the game developer would know for sure, but this is not a place to be asking – jsotola Dec 17 '21 at 18:48
  • @jsotola my guess is that the developer had a specific REAL firearm in his head when designing my asset and hence my question here. – Sir Muffington Dec 17 '21 at 18:50
  • you are not talking about a physics simulation ... you are talking about a game with zombies ... that is already disconnected from reality ... anyway, opinion based questions are off topic here – jsotola Dec 17 '21 at 18:55
  • Well, the video game in question obviously is not that sci-fi to that far from reality to feature completely unrealistic future weaponry, so yeah... The question may sound opinion-based but the answer would be fact based. – Sir Muffington Dec 17 '21 at 19:03
  • Please [edit] your question to be specific and answerable. If you want to know the difference between the two types guns, that could possibly work. Asking about a video game does not fit within the topics of this site. You may get a better answer at a video game, movie, or scifi portion of the Stackexchange network. – hazzey Dec 17 '21 at 20:59
  • Off topic here. More on topic on Movie and Sci-Fi SE. – DKNguyen Dec 18 '21 at 01:57
  • I already got an answer with which I am more than satisfied – Sir Muffington Dec 18 '21 at 18:56

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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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  • The spark in the screenshot is blue?.. – Sir Muffington Dec 17 '21 at 18:45
  • The inner circle is bright white, which is enclosed by blue light in a star shape, then turns to red in the next second. The important thing is it reveals the gunpowder used and initing mechanism, which are different for the two. – r13 Dec 17 '21 at 19:07