I was today years old when I realized that doomguy holds and reloads the super shotgun with two left hands

[deeeefers]

What the heck's up with that?

 

[Trigsy]

how dare you

[LadyMistDragon]

Jesus.....

 

As this thread demonstrates.....

 

 

Post Hell's not coming back, sorry.

Edited May 22 by LadyMistDragon

[eanasir]

He fell into some nukage in episode 1 so he mutated

[Murdoch]

Actually not true. He's holding the grip in his right, the stock with his left, fires the shot(s), flicks open the lock with right thumb, takes the weight in his right hand, lets go of the stock and reaches for fresh shells while gravity pops the gun open. The custom eject mechanism I am making up launches the empty shells out which evaporate into nothingness because video game, all the while he is expertly grabbing two shells and slams them in. He then jerks the gun upward which locks the barrels back in place and catches the stock with his now free left hand in the process.

[Lila Feuer]

Wat. He's just snapping it open while holding the weapon in his right hand, slapping in shells with his left hand, like you would as a right-handed user, and then closing it; with the same hand.

What's more an oddity if one thinks about it is that he's left-handed with punching and using his sidearm but is otherwise right-handed with main arms. Though it's possible that he's ambidextrous, with a bias for his left hand for some things. I know I am! roaring canned laughter

Edited May 22 by Lila Feuer

[fruity lerlups]

2 minutes ago, Lila Feuer said:

Wat. He's just snapping it open while holding the weapon in his right hand, slapping in shells with his left hand, like you would as a right-handed user, and then closing it; with the same hand.

What's more an oddity if one thinks about it is that he's left-handed with punching and using his sidearm but is otherwise right-handed with main arms. Though it's possible that he's ambidextrous, with a bias for his left hand for some things. I know I am! roaring canned laughter

hes holding a monster ultra in his right hand when he shoots the pistol

[oneselfSelf]

 

That's just how a double barrel shotgun is loaded. Albeit this example is showing how to do it fast, but it's usually how you reload it.

[DNSKILL5]

No? I think you just don’t know how to reload a double barrel shotgun. He is using the left hand to reload and to hold the forend. The right hand is holding the stock where the trigger(s) are. Even with Doom not being the most accurate depiction of weapons, this is how many people reload guns by using their non-dominant hand, most people do not want to have to realign their firing hand between reloads. 

Edited May 22 by DNSKILL5

[Dark Pulse]

I love when people think they discovered something, and then it turns out to be them not understanding how a double-barreled shotgun works.

[Decay]

21 minutes ago, Lila Feuer said:

What's more an oddity if one thinks about it is that he's left-handed with punching and using his sidearm but is otherwise right-handed with main arms. Though it's possible that he's ambidextrous, with a bias for his left hand for some things. I know I am! roaring canned laughter

Can do with eye dominance. I handle/shoot shotguns and rifles with my left hand on the trigger/grip because I am left-eye dominant, but I am firmly right handed.

 

When I shoot pistols I hold them in my right hand, if I held them in my left it would be disastrous and dangerous.

[deeeefers]

18 minutes ago, oneselfSelf said:

 

That's just how a double barrel shotgun is loaded. Albeit this example is showing how to do it fast, but it's usually how you reload it.

 

16 minutes ago, DNSKILL5 said:

No? I think you just don’t know how to reload a double barrel shotgun. He is using the left hand to reload and to hold the forend. The right hand is holding the stock where the trigger(s) are. Even with Doom not being the most accurate depiction of weapons, this is how many people reload guns by using their non-dominant hand, most people do not want to have to realign their firing hand between reloads. 

oh yeah now that I see it it does make sense, I thought they were supposed to be different hands

[Shepardus]

As others have stated, that's just how you operate a break action shotgun. Granted, the animation skips over the part where the hand would grab shells and bring them behind the gun, so it looks like the left hand teleports from holding the front of the gun to loading shells in the rear, but that's more of a timing issue than the frames themselves being wrong.

[Decay]

If you want to believe it, just assume the SSG has ejectors instead of extractors. No hand work necessary, ejectors can pop spent shells out far and fast.

[Lila Feuer]

You also have to question the video game logic of SBS double barreled shotguns being extremely viable weapons against brick shithouse demons when there are shotguns that fire faster and have way more ammo. But eh, it was the 90s.

[RDETalus]

1 hour ago, Decay said:

Can do with eye dominance. I handle/shoot shotguns and rifles with my left hand on the trigger/grip because I am left-eye dominant, but I am firmly right handed.

same here, left hand rifle, right hand pistol. It's goofy

[The Royal We]

This whole discussion reminded me of this particular scene and I can't say exactly why:

 

[Murdoch]

2 hours ago, Lila Feuer said:

You also have to question the video game logic of SBS double barreled shotguns being extremely viable weapons against brick shithouse demons when there are shotguns that fire faster and have way more ammo. But eh, it was the 90s.

 

I call it Evil Dead logic.

[xit-vono]

I'm also right handed, but when I hold something like a golf club or a bat with 2 hands, I do it left handed. I never understood why it's considered left handed that way.