This is a myth from Call Of Duty 4 mode3rn warfare, the level is charily don't surf. The myth is if you came to a locked door you can open it by shooting the hinges with a shot gun, the hinges will come of because of this and the door will open backwards from the way it normally dose.

Where is the myth in this? What you described is really how doors are breached...

If you Google "shotgun breaching rounds" you'll get all the answers you want.

Yes, this is common practice for s.w.a.t. and h.r.t. units. IIRC they originally used slugs made of dental plaster. They packed a nice whallop and yet turned to relatively-harmless dust instead of lethal fragments.

Nowadays, the breaching rounds are made of sintered lead, which is a fine lead powder pressed into a solid-appearing slug. When the slug strikes the door, the slug disintegrates into the powder, destoying the hinges, but not carrying dangerously into the room. They work very well.

Wait, didn't they test this already? On both padlocks and deadbolts? The shotgun was the winner I believe, but the shrapnel was dangerous.

My question is, why shoot out the 3 hinges on the door when, if you have a shotgun, you can shoot out the lock itself? I think that would be much simpler.

[quote]My question is, why shoot out the 3 hinges on the door when, if you have a shotgun, you can shoot out the lock itself? I think that would be much simpler.[/quote]

Oh you could shoot out the lock...but it is not always effective. Shooting out the hinges takes out the only thing holding the door on the wall.