SPAS 12 combat shotgun

[Anthony Appleyard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchi_SPAS-12

For CGI fans, I found a non-posable CGI model of an SPAS-12, and I have made a version posable with Poser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser

The peculiar hook on the end of its foldable stock in some versions :: I found by a web search that it can be rotated on its support, and that it is intended to hook round the user's forearm to make one-handed use more stable. The nearest that I could get is in this CGI image :-

(I have no real guns.)

What internal diameter (caliber) is the SPAS 12's barrel?

Is the gun the right length compared to a 6-foot-tall man in this image?

 

[SilvrSRT10]

Here is a website that can answer your question concerning gauge sizes. There's a chart part way down the spells it out in mm and inches. And the SPAS-12 is 41 inches long with the stock extended so your representation in your picture looks pretty accurate. A 12 gauge shotgun packs a pretty good kick. It'd be interesting to see if someone could shoot it with one hand like in your picture.

 

[The War Wagon]

Geez, at first glance, I though you'd made a SPAS-12 crossbow!

 

[kwo51]

Fiction not fact. Would be more realistic with an Uzi.

 

[Arckadian]

Speaking as a 3D modeler . . . HORRIBLE image hahaha. As a gun guy, Silvr. You can get your answers there fairly easily. I should post some of my work one of these days hahaha.

 

[Anthony Appleyard]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchi_SPAS-12

Link to Wikipedia article about the SPAS-12

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Franchi_SPAS-12_shotgun_showin0_use_of_hook.jpg

Link to CGI image of man firing the SPAS-12 one-handed. Note the stock-end hook around his right upper-arm. The Wikipedia article says that it could be switched between semiautomatic mode and pump-action mode.

How successful was this arrangement in use?