[ you won't blow thru 2 walls and kill you're wife down the hall.]
Regarding this, and other comments abot minimal birdshot penetration in a 2x4, etc, etc, etc:
FWIW, a LONG time ago, when I was young (26) and relatively inexperienced, I caused a 12ga AD (accidental discharge) INSIDE my home.
It turned out that I had inadequately cleared the pump/slide shotgun ( I had just returned home from hunting), and a shell had hung up in the magazine through several "proof" clearing "pumps" - but fed unseen into the chamber during the last "pump".
When I snapped the trigger, the charge of #6 birdshot penetrated three interior walls of plaster/wood lath/wood door casings/2x4's, before the pellets lodged deeply inside both a closet's solid wood door jamb and the home's exterior wall.
The shot charge passed 10" above my firstborn's crib, which was in that next room. :barf:
Fortunately, the crib was empty at the time, the baby (4 mos old) being in the room with me - just scared from the noise.
My wife (God bless her), later talked me out of getting rid of my guns, and giving up hunting/shooting - but I can tell you, I sure saw the elephant that day !
For HD, at room-clearing distances, it just doesn't much matter WHAT is used in a shotgun. period.
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Regarding this, and other comments abot minimal birdshot penetration in a 2x4, etc, etc, etc:
FWIW, a LONG time ago, when I was young (26) and relatively inexperienced, I caused a 12ga AD (accidental discharge) INSIDE my home.
It turned out that I had inadequately cleared the pump/slide shotgun ( I had just returned home from hunting), and a shell had hung up in the magazine through several "proof" clearing "pumps" - but fed unseen into the chamber during the last "pump".
When I snapped the trigger, the charge of #6 birdshot penetrated three interior walls of plaster/wood lath/wood door casings/2x4's, before the pellets lodged deeply inside both a closet's solid wood door jamb and the home's exterior wall.
The shot charge passed 10" above my firstborn's crib, which was in that next room. :barf:
Fortunately, the crib was empty at the time, the baby (4 mos old) being in the room with me - just scared from the noise.
My wife (God bless her), later talked me out of getting rid of my guns, and giving up hunting/shooting - but I can tell you, I sure saw the elephant that day !
For HD, at room-clearing distances, it just doesn't much matter WHAT is used in a shotgun. period.
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