Maverik (DayZ)

First of all, something people are overlooking is the fact that you cannot have "newb servers start with guns and veteran servers not". Characters are persistent between servers. All THAT would do is make everybody spawn a character on a random newb server and then move to whichever one they wanted to get an edge on the other players. This does not really help balance things at all. I've played a sum total of about 5ish hours of this game across maybe 3 lives. I think it's really harsh when you first start out (especially if you had the misfortune to pick a night server and not know well enough to pick a different one!) and it took me a lot of trial, error and fiddling... But I feel like I'm in a good groove with it now. My current character has less than 1000 blood pressure currently, and I'm desperately searching for a blood transfusion with a buddy. It's exhilarating! You say it's impossible. It's not. It's just really really hard. Because that's the sort of game the developers want to make. A game that's a harsh and unforgiving simulation of what it would REALLY be like in a Zombie apocalypse. Hell. There's an ABUNDANCE more weapons than there should be for hyper realism sake, but they're trying to give players SOME chance. The only things that get me are things like... I found an M1014 shotgun, and then later found 2 12 Gauge pellet shells that are marked as being for that gun. But I can't seem to get it to load them into the weapon. Pressing R does nothing, right clicking them in my ammo belt just comes up with "Group to 8" or something that does nothing. So I'm a bit at a loss. But hey. It's still in Alpha so I think I'll let it slide and pray I can figure out how to do it (or that somebody can tell me how? ^^; )

I found an M1014, and later 2 12 Gauge Pellet rounds (that say in the description "Used in M1014"). But I cannot seem to load the ammo into the gun at all. I have an option that says "Merge to 8" if I right click it, but it just tells me it can't do that. Pressing R does nothing either. Any idea what the deal is?