The underlying fact that a shotgun may explode in the shooter's face with each shot only serves to bolster the calamitous spirit that is the very essence of shotgunning. When super-duper steels were introduced and the risk abated, we all died a little.

The Top 5 developments which have ruined shotgunning:

1) Chokes
2) Smokeless powder
3) Super-duper steels
4) The recoil pad
5) Patterning