Double Barrel Shotgun
A Shotgun with two barrels allowing two shots to be fired in quick succession before needing to reload.
The Double Barrel Shotgun is a shotgun in Rust. Its default ammo is the Handmade Shell. It deals 180 damage per shot at 120 shots per minute from its 2-round magazine. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 100 scrap to research.
About the Double Barrel Shotgun
A full reload takes 5.5 seconds, and switching to it takes 1.8 seconds. It accepts 6 weapon attachments. Mounted in an Auto Turret, it deals 35% of its normal damage.
There are 4 kinds of ammo for it: Handmade Shell, 12 Gauge Buckshot, 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell and 12 Gauge Slug. With the other ammo types, its damage per second is 50 for the 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell and 27 for the 12 Gauge Slug. The 12 Gauge Buckshot and 12 Gauge Slug fly faster, at 225 m/s against 100 m/s for the Handmade Shell and 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell. Each shot splits into pellets: the Handmade Shell fires 20 pellets of 9 damage each, the 12 Gauge Buckshot fires 14 pellets of 15 damage each and the 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell fires 10 pellets of 15 damage each, while the 12 Gauge Slug fires a single projectile.
From full condition it fires 400 shots with the Handmade Shell before it breaks, which is 200 full magazines.
On the tech tree it sits behind 10 other unlocks: Waterpipe Shotgun, Salvaged Cleaver, Mace, Mini Crossbow, Compound Bow, Reinforced Wooden Shield and 4 more. It is for sale at 2 vendors: Water Well Shop Keeper for 100 to 130 scrap and Weapons for 250 scrap. In all, 26 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Double Barrel Shotgun damage and stats
Loaded with the Handmade Shell, the Double Barrel Shotgun deals 60 damage per second. The 12 Gauge Buckshot raises it to 70.
How to craft the Double Barrel Shotgun
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 175 × Metal Fragments and 2 × Metal Pipe.
175 
2 
How to get the Double Barrel Shotgun blueprint
Research it for 100 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 11 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
100 Scrap Blueprint 100 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 11 How to repair the Double Barrel Shotgun
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 36 × Metal Fragments and 1 × High Quality Metal, and you need its blueprint.
×36 
×1 Double Barrel Shotgun compared with other shotguns
Among the 6 shotguns it ranks 5th for damage per second, 2nd for damage per shot, 3rd for fire rate and 4th for magazine size.
The closest to it in damage per second are the Spas-12 Shotgun, Pump Shotgun, Eoka Pistol and Waterpipe Shotgun.
Handmade Shell 180 60 12.5° 100 ×20×1.310–20m 
12 Gauge Buckshot 210 70 12.5° 225 ×14×1.310–40m 
12 Gauge Incendiary Shell 150 50 12.5° 100 ×10—10–20m 
12 Gauge Slug 80 26.7 0.5° 225 —×220–40m Damage & DPS are per-shot with the listed ammo; aim cone is the spread in degrees, velocity in m/s.
Variable Zoom Scope ––+50 %– 
Weapon flashlight –––– 
Holosight -20 %––– 
Weapon Lasersight -20 %-50 %–-90 % 
Simple Handmade Sight –––– 
8x Zoom Scope ––+50 %– What the Double Barrel Shotgun recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 87 × Metal Fragments and 1 × Metal Pipe for one.
×87 ×1 50% ×105 ×1 20% 
×131 ×1 25% 50% 
×70 80% 
Silver Egg
Medium Loot BagThe chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Double Barrel Shotgun
Scarecrow has the best chance at 9.6%, followed by Elite Crate at 6.5% and Bradley Scientist at 5%.
Shops that hand it out
Water Well Shop KeeperShop×1for100–130Scrap
WeaponsShop×1for250 (125–500)Scrap
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
