Pump-Action Shotgun

**Used By** | * ZPD
* 3rd Street Saints
* Keith David
 **Appears in** | *Saints Row IV* *Saints Row: Gat out of Hell*

The **Pump-Action Shotgun** is a weapon in *Saints Row IV* and *Saints Row: Gat out of Hell*.

*The standard law enforcement shotgun. Duck if you see one coming...*— Weapon Description

## Overview

The Pump-Action Shotgun is a high powered shotgun that can inflict high damage in close quarters. It's weaker than the Semi-Auto Shotgun at longer ranges due to it's wider spread, but is the most powerful of the 2 buckshot firing shotgun at closer ranges. The Super Knockback upgrade is excellent at keeping targets away from the player and also works on vehicles.

## Upgrades

Clip Size, Damage, Effective Range and Rate of Fire can all be upgraded 5 levels each,
with a separate **Super Knockback** "ultimate upgrade".

## Availability

* The Pump-Action Shotgun is available for $100 during and after "The Fundamentals".
* Some ZPD officers carry these weapons and can be obtained by killing them or disarm by taking him as Human Shield.

## Analysis

Pros
* Higher damage per shell over the Semi-Auto Shotgun
* Wide spread allows the shotgun likely to hit multiple targets
* The Knockback upgrade works on infantry and vehicles, including tanks

Cons
* Slowest rate of fire of any shotguns
* Slowest reloading Shotgun when Semi-Auto Shotgun is upgraded
* Tends to spray more than the other Shotguns, making it even less effective than the other Shotguns at longer range
* Has the least effective range of all Shotguns

## Costumes

There are 4 costumes for the Pump-Action Shotgun: **Deacon 12-Gauge**, **Blunderbuss**, **Kardak Lasershot** and **Hillbilly**.

## Trivia

* The Deacon 12-Gauge was the first Pump-Action Shotgun to be revealed, in the IGN E3 demo.
* The Deacon 12-Gauge, by it's default appearance, resembles an Ithaca Model 37 Stakeout shotgun with a foregrip. It's also noticeable there are tag marks on the receiver.
* The description of the default Blunderbuss could be a reference to the Evil Dead trilogy, in which the film's protagonist refers to his shotgun as his "Boomstick".
* The Kardak Lasershot resembles both the Plasma Rifle from Fallout 3 and New Vegas and the Wunderwaffe DG-2 from the Treyarch Call of Duty games.
* The Deadwood Doc skin is likely a reference to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota, which gained notoriety in the late 19th Century as a lawless frontier town, the western TV drama *Deadwood* and character Doc Cochran, who used a shotgun in one episode, as well as Doc Holliday, who famously used a double-barreled shotgun at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone Arizona.
* In some few cases, when Playa fires the Pump-Action Shotgun in quick successions, he may not pump this weapon, this does not affect the rate of fire however.
	+ Passengers does not pump the shotgun as well after firing, they just hold the grip without pumping.

## References

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