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Lead. Shells are marked for waterfowl hunting & are much more expensive
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No. There is Rifle Shooting, Shotgun Shooting, Wilderness Survival, Nature, and Mammal Study, but no hunting. Hunting and trapping are not approved activities for Boy Scouts but are allowed for Venturers.
Pellets or slugs. shotguns usually shoot shot or pellets, but you can shoot slugs. in Indiana we use a shotgun to hunt deer and use shotgun slugs, better to use a barrel with no choke in it. cylinder bore preferred.
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Ducks are hunted with a shotgun. The speed and size of a duck would make it virtually impossible to hit with a single bullet or pellet, when in flight. A shotgun uses lots of tiny pellets that spread out in area from the gun, giving the hunter more chance of hitting the target, these tiny pellets also have less of a destructive effect on the birds, which are usually eaten.
Limits the number of rounds which can be loaded. Typically, in US laws for waterfowl hunting, a repeating shotgun is only allowed two rounds in the magazine, and one in the chamber, for a total of three rounds.
Depends on the shotgun and what you are hunting.
Precursors to the shotgun, such as the musket, were widely used by armies in the 17th century. they would use small pellets as aposed to one lead ball. often for bird hunting much like today.
Shotguns fire shells with many small pellets- or shot. The shot string is a 3 dimensional view of the shot in flight. When bird hunting with a shotgun, your goal is to have the shot string intersect the bird in flight.