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[Jurassic Park] Why did Robert Muldoon decide to hunt Velociraptors with a 12ga shotgun?

Muldoon is a serious hunter that's "hunted most things that can hunt you," and he deeply respects/fears the velociraptors. So why does he  use a shotgun instead of a rifle? Even if he was loaded with 12ga slugs, wouldn't a rifle with a high capacity be better suited to taking on prehistoric megapredators?

I know in the book he uses rockets, and that would make for a rather anticlimactic end to the movies raptors, but surely there must be a middle ground.
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Shotguns are good, that's why. Shotguns shoot more than one projectile with a lot of power at reasonably good accuracy. You can switch ammo and shoot one large projectile with accuracy very close to that of a rifle. Or you can switch to a shitton of shot with very little power but great spread (though this one is better for small game, not exactly velociraptors).

Rifles, even with high capacity magazines, require much more pinpoint accuracy, which isn't the best thing to use when you are being hunted back, especially when you know they hunt in a pack.