The Sons of the Forest shotgun location is one of the first you can find in the game, but that doesn't mean you can retrieve the powerful weapon early. Found buried with your teammate in his modest Sons of the Forest grave, the shotgun is indicated by a purple marker on your GPS locator in the very first moments of the game, as you are sent on a search for 'Team B.'
The Sons of the Forest shovel first, making uncovering the Sons of the Forest shotgun location trickier than it first appears.
How to get the Sons of the Forest shotgun from the purple marker grave
To get the Sons of the Forest shotgun, you will need to collect the shovel and dig up the gravesite at the north-west corner of the map.
As mentioned above, finding the gravesite isn't too difficult, as it's marked on your tracker from the moment you pick it up. Unlike some of the other GPS locators, your destination is immediately obvious, marked by a modest wooden cross and a dig site – but therein lies your problem. If you reach this marker before having found the shovel, you won't be able to retrieve the Sons of the Forest shotgun – or the other items within the grave.
If you do have the shovel, however, simply dig into the ground in front of the wooden cross to uncover the body of your fallen teammate, and acquire not only the GPS locator needed to complete the task, but the new Sons of the Forest shotgun, one of the powerful new mutants.
Two birds with one stone, then. Well, one shovel. Now, you can continue your story through the cannibal-ridden wilds of best PC games of the year.