Ares said:
Because, if you've fired it, YOU'VE SEEN THE SHELL EXIT THE WEAPON!
You guys seem to be un-educated. Bungie put the Hippo on the shotgun shells and Headlong in H2 as an ode to Alex Seropian and his new company, Wideload Games. Seropian was a Bungie worker.
Use any ol' shotgun shell, red, hand-paint the hippo...
Finnally Someone who knows what they are talking about.
No the color doesn't matter, it's art.
Unless you are trying to match bungies keychain paint it red.
to answer tubachris85x comment question type thing,
there are some top loading shot guns,
and it's game fiction so it doesn't matter really.
Now, if it was like Counter Strike where they put the ejection port (place by chamber in which spent casings are ejected for those who don't know) on the left side on ALL of the guns, yet our player is still shooting them right handed. The Ejection port is on the RIGHT for RIGHT handed shooters so brass (spent casings) dont hit you in the face because they are very hot since a small explosion just happened in them. And they are only put on the LEFT for LEFT handed shooters.
Anyhow if it was like that then i would agree, but there are some top loading shot guns so don't worry.
Ares thanks for clearing up the mystery about the Hippo on the shotgun shell.
And thanks Spartan 161 for posting those links, i agree, i my self have shot plenty of guns, and wasn't aware of those specific guns, but i did know there were some top loading ones from other places.
-Justin