I've leveled a KSG 12 up to 30, so I honestly feel some of your shotgun pain, and I do feel they need to get rid of the inconsistency with damage, both up close and at range.

If I'm using a shotgun, especially a slow pump action, I feel that 9/10 times if we are at extreme close range, I should OHK you.  This is currently not the case.

However, I was playing last night, and a guy with a Model 1887 was consistently OHKing me at a significant range.

Both of these problems are equally frustrating, and a common ground needs to be found.

Here is two vidoes of mine that I decided to post so people could see what I have been talking about all along. There is another up on yt of a private match as well. If you notice I had no problems getitng kills with both the spaz and the ksg unlike how others claim to have so many issues with them. This is pretty much how they always work for me when I use them.

My low kd with them is from dieng not because I fail to kill someone but from being shot in the back or the side by somoene I did not know was there too often. So I die more often when using them, so it negatively affects the kd of the weapon.

yes one was hardcore, where just about any weapon works well. The other was core and how that weapon always worked for me in core from day one. My low k/ds with them are from dieing too much using them not because they will not kill. I rush too much when using shotguns. I am not normally a rusher so do worse with them when I  end up ruhing too much.

If you go find the private match it is in core, and how the usa12 always works for me even in matches.

I could post vidoes like this of every shotgun doing the same. Which is why I have always been saying it is the connection that needs to be fixed first and not the damage or range on them. so until that problem is taken care of buffing them could make them even more unbalanced for those on the lucky side will have OP weapons that kill at ranges beyond what a shotgun should even before using the range prof.

And both vidoes are of the shotgun as stock no nothing added to them but maybe a cammo.

Okay gonna use the Spas now (no damage) and reveal good and bad kills. Will edit later with results.

Problems begin at 00:18. A close range shot (<10 meters) that doesn't kill, even if centered (playing with 100 ping, so in my screen it was). Then it's a very close shot that requires a second shot, which can be fatal most of times (and it was. If I killed him, I could take out the second guy easily). And then, in the end of the game, a close range perfect shot (again, small ping variance).