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Scattergun Bob

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Medical marijuana activist Steve Sarich was in his home in the pre-daylight hours Monday morning when three or four people burst in. One of them fired at him with a shotgun loaded with birdshot and he was wounded slightly, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office. Sarich returned fire with a .22-caliber pistol and hit at least one of his attackers seriously.
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The additional facts from King County are: the scattergun used was a 20G with # 6 birdshot. Mr Sarich was hit with approximately 16 pellets. All hits were contained in the skin of Mr Sarich. Mr Sarich held his ground with a .22 rim-fire semi-auto pistol and drove off his attackers.

Looks to me that a man with a larger caliber of projectile won vrs a man with a smaller weaker projectile!

I just wanted to have this in the archives for the next big verses little great debate. Dave you may close this when you find it.

If anything more of interest comes of this, I will add as an edit.

Good Luck and Be Safe
 
I think the point is that if the shotgun user was using buckshot the results might have been different. Yes?
 
Usually buckshot patterns out of a given barrel at a given range run smaller than birdshot patterns do. Getting 'fringed' with birdshot might well mean a clean miss with buckshot at the same range.

One lesson to take away from this IMHO is that you CAN miss with a shotgun, especially at close range.

lpl
 
One lesson to take away from this IMHO is that you CAN miss with a shotgun, especially at close range.
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Today, WSP had scattergun familiarization drills at our range. 20, 870 shooting Federal LE 00 buck with flight control wads. Average group size at 15 yards was 3 to 4.5 inches. YES you can easily miss with a fighting scattergun at close range, regardless of the myths and Internet legends.
Good Luck & Be Safe
 
mathman

Shorthand for "pistol grip only buttstock" We seem to be at times obsessed with the subject.

Although Dave and a group of us are quite outspoken on the subject, I think he was just having a little fun with us because of the 2 active PGO threads currently running.

Good Luck & Be Safe
 
I haven't researched the amount of # 6 pellets in a standard 20 ga. load, but I'll assume it is around 400. even if it was a 00 load, it was a horrible shot. not entirely shure he would have done better with the 22.
 
According to a shotgun pellet size chart I just looked at, it claims a count of 225 for one ounce of #6 shot.

Do 20 gauge rounds pack an ounce? (It's been too long since I bought any 20 gauge loads.)

Regardless, 16 out of some 225 is pretty poor stats.
 
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