Dude, this is Shadowrun. Sometimes rainclouds are deadly.

I'm no hunter, but I doubt you hunt deer with smooth bore weapons. Especially not with shot, unless you want minced deer.

Then why do they call it "Buck Shot" if you're not supposed to use it for Buck?

Buckshot

Larger sizes of shot, large enough that they must be carefully packed into the shell rather than simply dumped or poured in, are called "buckshot" or just "buck". Buckshot is used for hunting larger game, such as deer (hence derivation of the name), and also in riot shotguns and combat shotguns for defensive, police, and military use. Buckshot size is designated by number, with smaller numbers being larger shot; sizes larger than "0" ("ought") are designated by multiple zeros. "00" ("double-ought") is the most commonly used size.

A standard 00 buck shell holds 7-9 pellets. Two types of 00 buckshot are commonly available from suppliers: regular 00 buckshot shells for hunting, and low-recoil shells for law enforcement or home defense use. Low-recoil 00 buckshot allows the shooter to make fast follow-up shots, which may be needed in a combat situation, but are not typically required in hunting.

One of my runners had a... well, it was a tactical vest that everyone reffered to as the bat-vest because of this guy's tendency to have seemingly random usefull stuff in it. Everything from spare clips and shuriken to a mini-tool for soldering to those wierd astral smoke bombs. Spare commlinks and a special "one shot" mini grapple gun. Oh, and the plastic explosive "bomblets" for his slingshot.

I imagine the fun times he's having explaining the cops what does he need all those for.

One of my runners had a... well, it was a tactical vest that everyone reffered to as the bat-vest...

No pliers?

I imagine the fun times he's having explaining the cops what does he need all those for.

I had a character that used to hand out TacNet comms to the groups he was running with. They included the TacNet, a nice bunch of sensors, and a friend-or-foe encrypted transponder so his drones wouldn't shoot his teammates.

What he DIDN'T tell folks was

...the rest was overshadowed by the team troll's flagrant verbal abuse of the police.

I had a rigger that provided tacnet (to a group which had up until that point dismissed tacnets entirely as too much work) and secretly recorded all the data from it on runs (encrypted of course, space no longer being an issue). During downtime some careful editing and selection of camera angles, voice recordings, etc. provided me with some good blackmail material (ready to be anonymously donated to previously offended corp(s)) should any of my team turn judas or decide I was expendable. Never did get to use it.

My plausible deniability contingency plan if they found out I was recording runs was that if we later needed to know something we hadn't noticed in the first place or had subsequently forgotten (How many people ran past that gap? Could any of them have been concealing a McGuffin?), I could review the recording to see if any of the tacnet sensors had picked it up.

Followed quickly by physical abuse by the police, I bet. Well, maybe not so quickly, this is a Troll we're talking about. Back-up would need to be called.

For once I had planned on buying one of those manacase coffin-size surrounded with a faraday cage and extra plaques of biofiber around it to create my own version of a Dune 'no-chamber' the next time we had to extract someone.

I think I'd have my character carry a gas grenade filled with the most potent insecticide he could get his hands on. Just in case.