Eoka Pistol
A very cheap, very ineffective, and very unreliable pistol that fires shells.
The Eoka Pistol is a shotgun in Rust. Its default ammo is the Handmade Shell. It deals 180 damage per shot at 40 shots per minute. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Eoka Pistol
Loading the next shot takes 2 seconds, and switching to it takes 0.5 seconds. 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 75 for the 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell and 40 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 200 shots with the Handmade Shell before it breaks.
Eoka Pistol damage and stats
Loaded with the Handmade Shell, the Eoka Pistol deals 90 damage per second. The 12 Gauge Buckshot raises it to 105.
How to craft the Eoka Pistol
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 75 × Wood and 30 × Metal Fragments.
75 
30 
How to get the Eoka Pistol blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
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10 Scrap Blueprint 10 How to repair the Eoka Pistol
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 16 × Wood and 7 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×16 ×7 Eoka Pistol compared with other shotguns
Among the 6 shotguns it ranks 4th for damage per second, 2nd for damage per shot, 5th for fire rate and 5th for magazine size.
The closest to it in damage per second are the Spas-12 Shotgun, Pump Shotgun, Double Barrel Shotgun and Waterpipe Shotgun.
Handmade Shell 180 90 15° 100 ×20×1.310–20m 
12 Gauge Buckshot 210 105 15° 225 ×14×1.310–40m 
12 Gauge Incendiary Shell 150 75 15° 100 ×10—10–20m 
12 Gauge Slug 80 40 3° 225 —×220–40m Damage & DPS are per-shot with the listed ammo; aim cone is the spread in degrees, velocity in m/s.
What the Eoka Pistol recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 37 × Wood and 15 × Metal Fragments for one.
×37 ×15 50% ×45 ×18 
×56 ×22 25% 50% 
×30 ×12 
Small Present 6.5%×1 The chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Eoka Pistol
SUPER Stocking has the best chance at 15%, followed by Small Stocking at 11%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
