Super Trucker

I rotate #4 Buck then 00 Buck every other round.

Rob72

Good points, so far. I would just ask- are you in an apartment, trailer or rent-house? It wasn't quite clear, from the post. If an apartment, yeah, you pretty much have to stick with birdshot. Just "shoot until the threat stops". BS is not known for stopping people, in any sense you wish to take that.

Rob99VMI04

Door to Door Distances I don't think its going to matter much what choke you have in it. http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot20.htm

Gives you a good Idea of what Buckshot really does.

I Use a Heavy Goose (during Goose season) and Turkey load for home defense (during Turkey season) followed up by usaully the last 2 shots with 00 buck.

If you don't believe you can miss with a shotgun even real close. Go out to a skeet field one day and shoot station 7 even with a skeet choke (REALLLY open Big pattern) people miss alot.


I ran into a hunter from over in Europe in one of my CCW classes here in VA. He has a house in a country in europe I can't remember which country but they have the highest Moose population in the world, there country is also really long stretchs from what would be the equvalent of Maine to South Carolina. What he calls a moose I guess is really a Caribou or something that resembles one. Basically he said he hunts with a shotgun and shoots them with #7 1/2 to #9 birdshot. Something about that animals particalur CNS reacting to a big blunt force trauma. He said they do alot of tanning over there with the hides, so they don't use rifles or slugs because it tears up the hide. I really don't understand because I dont' see how one shot from a slug would be that hard to fix, but thats what he said. He really knew his stuff about shotgun's and hunting Moose, Caribou or santas reindeer whatever they where.

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Rob72

You'd have to show me a hide. Sorry, I smell many long nights reading Field and Stream, and BS. I've seen a convict shot with # 9. He was pissed(not dead), and you would not have had a useable hide, if one were going to tan him.

Rob99VMI04

Just passing on some hear say, I think it was SCANNNDANAVIAAAAAAAAa Maybe.

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sgtD

Very good point Chuck.

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fitz777

I read a real good book on shotgun shooting (always trying to be a better shot quail hunting) and he had quite a writeup on the same thing. However it related to how birds were affected by smaller shot as opposed to larger shot. It had to do with the bird's CNS also.

For home defense I would vote for the before mentioned #4 shot. That should do the job for any reasonable distance inside a home. Unless you live in the Taj Mahal.

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