These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'scattergun.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2020 But a single-barrel introduced during the Great Depression gets my nod as the best squirrel-hunting scattergun of all time. 2020 United's scattergun transfer approach certainly hasn't created a wave of optimism.Īimee Lewis, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021 The spacious 24x56-inch cockpit allows plenty of freedom for swinging a scattergun.Īlex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Nov. Shotgun reloads successive shells faster, but only breaks even with the scattergun when reloading like 5+ shells at a time. Scattergun reloads the initial shell much quicker.
The Germans even tried to have it outlawed during the war under the protest that it caused unnecessary suffering.
The short barrel and the 00 buck shot loads were devastating on German and other Central Power troops. It was at home in the muddy trenches of that war. Shotgun fires slightly faster, but only by like a couple hundredths of a second. The 97 was the primary shotgun used by the Dough Boys in WWI. Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. Shotgun only has +50 ramp-up, with a maximum damage of 90 (before damage spread). 2021 The general scattergun nature of it all reflects the need to fill an information void created when a first-year AD who’s never hired a coach before goes it alone without the help of a search firm. a long gun that fires a large number of small metal bullets at one time, designed for shooting birds and animals : You could shoot a scattergun there, and not. 2021 Rhodes and his bandmates Simon Le Bon, John Taylor and Roger Taylor also answered a round of scattergun questions.
Lance Eliot, Forbes, Today, with lots of capital at the earliest stages, founders are able to spend a lot on customer acquisition and take a more scattergun approach.Ĭhris Smith, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2022 The odds are that when facing a black-box situation, the evildoer will resort to using a scattergun approach in hopes that something will do the trick for them. Recent Examples on the Web With a view to financing the rebuilding of Ukraine, Summers said the World Bank needs to emphasize speed of execution over its current more scattergun approach to development financing.Ĭhristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Oct.
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