Talk:Hek/@comment-12714991-20130719154759/@comment-66.60.227.195-20130719160712

I don't believe those are guesses; they make sense, though they just sound a bit ambiguous.

Technically the hek's range is identical to all shotungs, it just has a better spread pattern letting it be more effective at longer ranges (i.e. more pellets will hit a target farther away than, say, the strun....but both weapons can actually reach the spot you aim at).

The ineffective beyond medium range comment refers to the damage drop-off that is inherent in all shotguns...past a certain distance your damage per pellet begins to diminish (at long ranges you're basically just hitting single numbers per pellet and it's not even worth it to shoot at that point, really).

The missing at close range due to barrel length is a little bit subjective, but it has a certain point. I think whoever put that there was referring instead to the tight'ish spread. At very very close range it's really quite easy to miss if you're just trying to 'spray' a cloud of pellets in a general direction...the strun outperforms the hek here simply because its cone is so much wider. Since the hek has a really tight cone by comparison, even being just a little bit off will cause you to miss when your enemy is right next to you since the pellets don't have time to spread out as far and 'catch' your target.