texas_teacher
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I'm average size 6' 195 and at my widest point is about 7 inches so it seems to me 12" would be overpenetration. I know bird shot is efective from about 15 feet I scattered peices of a jackrabbit all over a barbedwire fence so I'm certain it would work on an intruder.
This is true 12" of penetration would be overpenetration... but that's through gel... but with birdshot a button, a rib, a sternum, a crowbar, birdshot wouldn't do it... 00 and a nice slug would definitely do the trick... maybe overdo it... but even overdone it's still done... it's not like with shot you need to be worried about it going in and out and then into another... it'll go in and if it goes out it ain't going anywhere else...