Shotties = Noob

[Pete409]

For what it's worth, I've been around shotguns and shotgun shooters practically all my life. I've been a hunter for many years, and I've been a clay target shooter for the past 13 to 14 years. I go shooting 2 or 3 times every week, year round.

In all my associations with shotgun shooters, some of which have even more experience with shotguns than me, I've never once heard an experienced shotgun person refer to shotguns as "shotties". Shotguns are referred to simply as "shotguns" or just plain "guns".

Calling them a "shottie" is a sure sign of a newbie. Not that there is anything wrong with being a newbie, but if you want to sound like you know a little bit about the subject of shotguns, you might avoid using the term "shottie".

That's my 2 cents on the subject. Your mileage may vary. ;) :D

[rcmodel]

Pete my friend, you are I are getting old and set in our ways!

But I agree with you completely!

Shottie sounds like a very small glass of whisky!

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[Steel Talon]

What about way back in the day? When shotguns were also commonly referred to as...
Scatter Gun
Street Howitzer
Sawed Off
ETC...

In today’s vernacular the word Shottie is starting to become a more common heard slang term. Will it remain, or go away who knows.

Back in the eighty's I was teaching a firearms classroom course prior to rangetime at the academy, when a recruit used the term "GAT" I was like WTF? :D At least if one was to say Shottie I could of quickly understand the conversation:)

[rcmodel]

You left out Smoothbore, which was almost acceptable in elite shotgun circles!

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[joab]

Benn calling them shotties, pump guns, hammer guns for about thirty years
Never got calling a shotgun a gauge though, but I don't mind it

No more inappropriate than wheelie or wheelgun

[Josh Aston]

Shotgun


Shottie

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Disclaimer: The pictures aren't mine, they were borrowed from Gunbroker for illustrative purposes only.

[oletymer]

Pete, I agree totally. It seems to be used by the HD owners. I alway laugh imagining these guys in a defense situation yelling, "get away, I have my shottie".

[mswestfall]

I always thought that Shottie was a British term. You know "real" english.

[esq_stu]

"If I have to ride all day in the car to visit Aunt Tilly, I call shotty!"

That's what my kids called the front passenger seat of a car, as in "riding shotgun" with the implied (or so they think) privilege of controlling the stereo.

[possum]

it's not something i say i really don't know why i just do't but there are plenty of people that do an everyone knows what they mean when they say it so it works.

[Jorg]

I've always found the term shotty to be strange and I've never heard anyone actually say it. It's like those other baby-talk names used for guns on the intarweb, such as remmy, bushy, winny, etc. I've never heard anyone call a revolver a "wheelie" either. A wheelgun, yes, but no baby talk around here.

For what it is worth, when I read the first sentence of the original post, I thought, "You've been shooting for that long and you call the shotties?" ;)

[throdgrain]

I always thought that Shottie was a British term. You know "real" english.

No way. I've never heard anyone ever refer to a shotgun as a "shotty", though I have seen people type it on the internet loads of times, particularly in reference to computer games.

Go figure :)

[Dave McCracken]

I've used SHOTGUNS for just under a half century. I've yet to hear anyone say "Shottie".

I have to confess the term kinda grates on me....

[Black Adder LXX]

It's the gamers. Kids who have shot millions of sounds on XBOX live, but never even seen a real Shotgun.

[ArmedBear]

Blunderbus, smokepole -- joking terms for a very high end shotgun or sarcastic terms for a hyped-up overpriced new model
Shotgun, gun -- usual terms for a shotgun among shotgun shooters
Shottie -- word never used by anyone who shoots shotguns (much like native Californians are never heard using the word "Cali" for the state)

[Steel Talon]

Smokepole=Muzzle Loader What I'm familiar with that term.
Peace ST~

[ArmedBear]

"Smokepole", as I've heard it, is slang for "muzzleloader", but can be a sarcastic reference to a modern firearm (like calling someone's new Perazzi a "nice bluderbus" because he looks just a little too proud of the thing).:)

[Pete409]

Time to resurrect this thread. :D

[joe_kidd]

For what it's worth, I've been around shotguns and shotgun shooters practically all my life. I've been a hunter for many years, and I've been a clay target shooter for the past 13 to 14 years. I go shooting 2 or 3 times every week, year round.

In all my associations with shotgun shooters, some of which have even more experience with shotguns than me, I've never once heard an experienced shotgun person refer to shotguns as "shotties". Shotguns are referred to simply as "shotguns" or just plain "guns".

Calling them a "shottie" is a sure sign of a newbie. Not that there is anything wrong with being a newbie, but if you want to sound like you know a little bit about the subject of shotguns, you might avoid using the term "shottie".

That's my 2 cents on the subject. Your mileage may vary.

Good show, old chap. I bet you also steer clear of all those "newbie" mechanics who call a carburettor a "carb" or "carby". Who knows what they and their shortened terms may do to your car, those amateurs!

[guntotinguy]

I find the word 'shottie' in the context of a SHOTGUN almost unnerving for some reason...irritating!

[Youngster]

Shottie sounds pretty low brow, but doesn't annoy me as much as the spelling of "shot gun" instead of as one word.

[mnrivrat]

Me thinks the word Shottie is part of that new language they use on them fancy typing machines with the screens on em. (puters ?)

Never heard the word til I got one of these things. I suspect it came with a generational and communication technoligy shift.

Someone started it by thinking it was "cool" :D

[oletymer]

Shoty or shottie are terms used by people who are not yet potty trained.

[dispatch55126]

Shotgun is the proper name and used most often. It is no different than calling you Mr. Pete409. Occasionally though, people will use the less proper name and will call you pete409 or just pete.

[MCgunner]

Beating the HELL out of a dead and bloating horse, here. :banghead::)

When someone posts "shotty" for shotgun, I picture an 18 year old Commando wannabe mall ninja for some weird reason. You rarely hear SxS doubles referred to as "shotties". It's usually a Mossberg 590 or some such, maybe Saiga.

[FLRon]

I guess another vote for sticking to tradition and calling them by the correct name.

As long as we are discussing irritating names some use for weapons, I cringe whenever I hear someone refer to a new weapon as a new "toy."

I realize the unbridled delight in getting a new handgun, rifle or shotgun, but for some reason calling them "toys" just doesn't work for me.

Ok, I'm done. :D

[Mat, not doormat]

I tend to say shotgun, or scattergun in referring to shotguns in general. When referring to a particular gun, or type:

SxS = "double"
Win '97 = "pump"
Rem 1100 = "auto"
Rem 11 = "humpback"
O/U = "expensive"

[FourNineFoxtrot]

I'm going to admit that I sometimes call shotguns "shotties", although not often, and not in mixed company. In my narrow circle of shooting friends, we often refer to our weapons by nicknames, caliber, or whatever characteristic denotes the weapon. Since there's only ever one shotgun among us at a time, there's no need to distinguish from among types of shotguns. However, I would not use the term "shottie" at a range, or with experienced shooters (other than my close friends), for the same reason that I wouldn't swear or use colorful language in mixed company: Doing so lends an unfavorable impression to people I don't know well.

For the most part, I'll agree that "shottie" is something I would rather hear playing Halo on the Xbox than while shooting. Ultimately, though, language changes. We don't have to like it, but there isn't much to be done about it.