Boomstick

The Boomstick is a gun rarely found in Jungle Shrines. It fires a three-shot spread, but only consumes one bullet per firing. All three shots have a base power of 12, yielding 19 damage with Musket Balls and 21 damage per shot with Meteor Shot or Silver Bullets. The Boomstick is similar to its Hardmode counterpart, the Shotgun. With some luck, and the audacity to enter the Underground Jungle as soon as an entrance is found, a Boomstick can potentially be acquired before any other ranged weapon besides a Wooden Bow.

Its best Modifier is Unreal.

Tips

 * Due to the spread of the shots and the slow weapon speed, the Boomstick loses efficiency at long range. It is highly effective at close range, and hitting an enemy with all three shots can do around 60 damage, butchering most non-Hardmode enemies.

Trivia

 * The term 'boomstick' is a reference to the Evil Dead movie series, in which the protagonist, Ash, refers to his shotgun as a "boomstick". The word has since become a common name for shotguns, particularly short-barreled, or "sawed-off", variants.

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