A-Bolt Shotgun

A-Bolt Shotgun is a bolt-action shotgun featured in CrossFire.

Overview[]

This gun has a mixed rep between MTs-255 and KS-23, with good firepower at close range but notably slower firing speed due to its bolt-action nature. It has 3 rounds capacity like the Serbu Super-Shorty, but the usage of the magazine means it can be reloaded quite fast, at the cost of no reload cancel.

Advantages:

High damage both in close range and mid-range (if zoomed in).
Quick reloading time.
Lightweight.
Narrow pellet spread.
Fast drawing speed.
High accuracy.
Narrow crosshair when zooming in.
One time reload.
Narrower pellet spread when zooming in.

Disadvantages:

Slow bolt cycling time against the quicker pump cycling speed of common shotguns in general.
Damage reduced in long-range.
Very low magazine capacity.
Huge crosshair.

Availability[]

Available in all CrossFire versions.

Trivia[]

This weapon is the very first shotgun to use a bolt-action system in CrossFire.
- This gun has similar animation to FN Ballista, APR 338 & OM-50 Nemesis.
Similar to DAR-21 & HK21, this is the third weapon in CrossFire which features screen zoom without a visible scope. Unusually, the crosshair shrinks down significantly when scoped in (something other weapons don't have), which also makes the pellets spread narrower, making it more effective in mid-range.
- Incidentally, this trait makes A-Bolt Shotgun best used with a "quick-scope" trick (RMB+LMB) regardless of distance, since it will increase 1-hit kill chance significantly when using the optical zoom to make the pellet spread smaller.
In CF Europe, although still categorized as a Shotgun, this weapon incorrectly receives ammo buff from M4A1-VIPs.
In CF Philippines, this is the first permanent shotgun in GP Black Market (the Remington 870 is also featured, but only temporary).
It's firing noise is shared from ASh-12.7.
This weapon can be fired faster if a player uses a VVIP character by using an exploit can be done always LMB + R + E similar matter to a sniper. This technique can also run out of ammo easily.
Unlike most bolt-action that typically found on the sniper rifle were every shot player unzooms to cycle the bolt-action then zooms again, which is opposite on this weapon were stays on the zoom phase, making it the first weapon to have this feature.