newbie question: Pump shotgun

[StayPuft]

This is definitely good to know, as this is one of the more confusing ones. Every time this one comes up, nobody can remember the official correct answer. Good to have it clarified here. Also good to have a thematic explanation. So, thematically you think of it like this:

You shoot once, and all of the zombies in a crowd together (in the same space on the board) are either hit or missed. A shot gun is different from most other guns. It isn't like a single bullet that goes straight towards one target. It sort of explodes and goes all over the place, so it makes sense that several targets could be hit at once. After that, then the shotgun may or may not be out of ammo.

So you do NOT think of it like taking separate shots at each zombie.

It IS NOT like BOOM! I shot at zombie 1. BOOM! I shot at zombie 2. BOOM! I shot at zombie 3.

It is just BOOM! I shot my shotgun and it went all over the place, and, just as an example, it hit zombie 1 but missed zombie 2 and also hit zombie 3.