Semi-auto Shotgun

The Semi-auto Shotgun is a weapon featured in Red Dead Redemption.

Description

The weapon is relatively inaccurate, but it is still a very powerful and efficient weapon in its own right. It is one of 5 Rare Weapons in the game that must be acquired to achieve 100% Completion.

Acquisition

Single Player

The Semi-auto Shotgun can be purchased at the Gunsmith in Escalera for the base price of $1000. Additionally, with a high enough Honor, the price is reduced to $500, and with the Savvy Merchant Outfit this can be reduced to $250.

Undead Nightmare

It can be found during the mission A Civilized Man at the end of a short, dead-end hallway in the Escalera Catacombs.
If the player failed to pick it up in the Catacombs, it can later be found on a pile of burning bodies whilst free-roaming. Picking it up will spawn a group of undead to attack, however.
It can sometimes be found before the final mission when zombies attack a person and kill them and the dead persons gun will be on the ground near his body, a good place to find a person in distress like this is on the north side of the frontera bridge.

Multiplayer

The Semi-auto Shotgun is obtained at Level 26.
It can also be found in a weapon crate when playing in Las Hermanas.
The Semi-auto Shotgun can also be dropped by the Bollard gang or Walton's gang.
It is one of the 3 weapons that can be found during an Undead Overrun match, and is also a part of the "mauler" loadout.

Tips and Tricks

The Semi-auto Shotgun is great for playing on Expert Mode because of its wide spread and above-average magazine capacity.
Up close, the Semi-Auto shotgun is capable of killing most players and animals in a single shot to the head or torso. However, like all shotguns, the Semi-auto drastically loses power when firing at distant targets.
The Semi-auto shotgun is one of the best choices for going lone wolf in Gang Hideouts.
The Semi-auto shotgun is also arguably the best mid-range weapon, because when shooting a person at mid range they will stagger, giving the player the opportunity to come up close for the kill.
This gun is especially good in Advanced Cooperative Missions, as you do not have to aim so much, and you can fire multiple rounds in rapid fire.
Like almost every other weapon in the game, combining Dead Eye with this shotgun drastically increases its range. It should be noted that the shot still has a wide spread, meaning aiming for the head in Dead Eye of a target very far away will not guarantee an instant kill.
The semi-auto shotgun is a superior weapon when going hunting for big game. It is extremely damaging and will assure you a kill with one or two well placed shots.

Trivia

The Semi-auto Shotgun is based on the real world Browning Auto-5 Shotgun.

The Semi-Auto shotgun has far better range than other shotguns in the game, although it has a greater spread than the Pump-action Shotgun. Despite this, the Double-Barreled Shotgun is the last shotgun to be unlocked in Multiplayer.
Edgar Ross can be seen hunting ducks with the Semi-Auto shotgun in the Stranger Side-mission, "Remember My Family".

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Achievements/Trophies

The Semi-auto Shotguncan be used to unlock the following achievements.

	EXQUISITE TASTE 10 gamerscore Bronze bronze Purchase a rare weapon from a gunsmith.

	BULLSEYE 20 gamerscore Bronze bronze Get 250 headshots in any game mode.

	THE GUNSLINGER 5 gamerscore Silver silver Get a headshot while in Expert Mode in Singleplayer.

	LONG ARM OF MARSTON 20 gamerscore Silver silver Kill 500 enemies with any rifle, repeater, or shotgun

	REDEEMED 100 gamerscore Gold gold Attain 100% in the Single Player Game Completion stat.