RM, I'm shocked! I would think you would know better!
A shotgun is the most versitile gun on the planet! I can defend my home, and garner EVERYTHING that lives on land that is fit to eat and fill my belly!
I have NOT bought any meat in the past year other than chicken and bacon. No shit! My freezer is still too full to ethically shoot any more! I invite all the locals and friends to my cabin just to EAT! We are going to have a big Hoo-Haw! at my place Halloween weekend just so I can get rid of last years meat!
I'm doing whole backstraps stuffed with cheese, garlic. and spinach, wrapped in bacon, on the grill. Everything done on an open fire! Stuiffed turkey breasts!
More deep fried Lake Erie Perch! Deer liver with garlic and onion. Hot Hungarian red and yellow peppers stuffed with venison sausage, rice, garlic, onion, mushrooms...cooked in a dutch oven till almost done, then covered in fresh tomato and green chilis and covered in a pound of mozerella cheese until brown and bubbly!
I am the total camp cookling bitch! That's a mantle I wear proudly! It is fun as hell! I ride, I shoot, I hunt with the best of them! But I am the King of Open Fire Cooking and everyone knows it!
Getting back to the point, a shotgun rules! I'll take my muzzie loader over a shotgun any day for big game, but shotguns fill the pot with feather and fur! And that is satisfying as hell to feed yourself by your own hand in fantastic tasting style!
You western guys can't ID with this!
You have laws! We have no laws!
Zero!
It's a beautiful thing!
First of all I don't like to eat BB's so I hate buckshot. Too big and bulky to get around the hallway corners in the house. Is not very accurate beyond a short distance.
I'm not saying it does not have its place. There's nothing like the Master Key as it has been referred to for opening doors.
But otherwise from a tactical standpoint it's a very limited weapon. I'd rather even have the M4 for close quarters as opposed to a shotgun. Now if I know what I'm hunting won't be shooting back I'll gladly go pluck some rounds. Otherwise I'll stick with the .44 or .45. I also have a Desert Eagle in the .50 that would stop anything. Bitch to shoot more than a few times though. Rounds are out the roof.
here's the G27 with the G22 mag in it. (15 round) 
uhh...no...well wait, I do have this one that you can have. 
It's a nice looking gun, but considering it's James' Glock 27, that makes it that much better. And judging by the 15 round magazine, I'm guessing you do work. 
Damn now I can't stop.
