crashdummy
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I like a 3" 20 ga coach gun, first bbl with #4 bird shot, and the other with buckshot.
Alternatively,
Get a "field/defense" combo from either Remington or Mossberg. This will give you the same platform to shoot clays/hunt, as well as a short barrel version for home defense.
I have always been a shotgun shooter.
Sort of. You still need to hit the target, but if you put the pattern anywhere on the target you are much more likely to "stop the threat" than with a handgun. Once the shot enters tissue it is going to spread much more quickly than in the air. If it hits any sort of bone, anyone's guess where pellets end up. A hit with a #4 buckshot load is, in a very simplified manner ballistically, a few dozen hits with a 22lr in a small entry area. 0000 buckshot similar to more than a cylinder out of a .38 revolver. Look at gel tests and you will see the shot spread quickly into a larger cone towards the exit. It may not take tear an arm off if the pattern hits squarely, but it is going to almost surely open up every blood vessel, shatter bones, and render that arm useless and any movement is going to generate a lot of pain. If that doesn't limit the attacker, due to drugs or something, they are probably going to lose a lot of blood quickly if they don't stop to bandage."spread of buckshot" wont matter. it will be as important to aim a shotgun as it will a rifle or handgun.
Again, sort of. The psychological is much different, but the technical aspects of it not so much. If you are clearing a room and such there are retention concerns, but if you are hunkering down behind a locked door and waiting for police using a gun you shoot a lot for clays is much better than a tactical 18" one you never handle IMO.Being good with a shotgun for hunting and clay birds isn't the same as being good with one for self defense.
and a little better for clearing house type stuff.
Me in the US? No. I've lived places where calling the police in such a situation might end with the robber being dispatched to your house though. Or possibly someone worse than the robber. Also depends where your loved ones are at. I don't have kids, but i I did that might muddy those waters.And who is doing that? You hunker down and call 911.