because i like to rush with shotguns.  I want to sacrifice all the range i can have and my rate of fire so I can have a one hit kill **** cannon up close.  Its a risk reward thing.  The risk is being killed by eveyone outside of effective range but the reward should be (especially with the slow firing shotguns) one hit kills (with good aim) and the ability to chop through an entire enemy team if you get close enough.  Its happened more than once where I have run up on the back of 3 campers and started putting good shots into them from 20-30 ft and get nothing but hitmarkers (this is with damage on) and one of them whips around their 50 cal semi auto with the kick proficiency and qs the crap out of me.

why it was fair before now it is underpowered.

too slow and not reliable enough 1 hit kills without steady aim for the gun to be good in anything but hardcore.

so was I.  I have more than 600 kills each with spas and 1887 and I can tell you there was no time where I felt confidence in either of them.  There hasn't been a situation that I have felt happy I had a shotgun because frankly hip firing a sub machinegun works far better.  There is a reason even SandyRavage doesn't have a ton of shotgun gameplay on youtube because even in the hands of the master shotguners the gun is underpowered.  There are times with steady aim and range proficiency on where the gun can get some impressinve long range kills but that takes perfect aim and without dead silence to give you surprise after you fire that first shot its game over, and since the spas and 1887 are extremely slow firing weapons only perfect shots are useful.  The damage proficiency should give the spas identical damage to mw2 without stopping power.  no one was complaining when they got killed with a spas without stopping power.