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Ive been making my list of future gun purchases id like to make...when it comes to shotguns not only can I not settle but im increasingly wonder I want if I should bother with one at all?
Shotguns for defense: Why bother or why would you overlook them!?
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BIGPAPIGREG
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THAT was a long time ago on the ultraweb sir!
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Biggest advantage shotguns have is price. You can get a decent 18.5" pump for $180 brand new. At that price you could have one for every room in your house 
Beyond price they pretty much suck at everything else. They are a lot of fun to shoot at stuff, tho. They make a proper mess of anything you aim them at.
Beyond price they pretty much suck at everything else. They are a lot of fun to shoot at stuff, tho. They make a proper mess of anything you aim them at.
lol... The topic has been re-hashed here many times.
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Shotgun in every room of the house. I like the way you think.
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Maybe its the "country" in me. I dont want to be without a shotgun. Its like a woobie.
Mikeinhistory
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Candy cane loads. When I lived in Northern California on some amount of land that was how I dealt with it. Birdshot as a "warning" then buckshot and slugs after. I do not approach living in Austin the same. I do not think it would work here but out there with no cover and a lot of line of sight I thought it worked. Like everything shotguns have a job but they can't do all jobs.
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I'm very pro-shotgun when it comes to home defense. I accept that it shouldn't over-penetrate and might just make a nasty mess, but I know I can't point or shoot any weapon system faster. I got one by my bed with a flashlight. My bedroom is upstairs and besides a cell phone to call the cops- there's nothing else I'll need to protect my family from a home invader.
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I can't think of a better close quarter weapon besides maybe a submachine gun. Hitting something with an ounce + of lead at 1200 fps, that's some real energy going down range, I would never think of being without one. Why do you think every police cruiser in America has one??? As far as distance goes, I've been a slug hunter my whole life so I think you'd have a hard time getting within 125 yards of me without wishing I wasn't shooting at you...
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M2 or M4? Reliable with bird/buck and slugs? Looks real nice.
Flesh and bone is actually harder to penetrate than a wall. Anything that is considered lethal on a person will easily go through several interior walls. Check out The Box O' Truth - Ammo Penetration Testing
That's a very good point. Whatever weapon you're most proficient with should be your "goto" when it really counts.
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Louisville Slugger.
seeker_two
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I like the shotgun for HD, but I prefer the .410 over the 12ga. The buckshot hits just as hard, but the recoil is gentler to the shoulder.
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Remember Travis telling us that story about two guys shooting at each other in an elevator? They ran out of bullets and both lived. Both those guys probably would have been more successful with with a bat
What worries me about a shotgun is that it is just as likely to maim someone as kill them. And with all these stories popping up of a home owner facing prosecution from a surviving assailant it seems easier to justify two in the chest and one in the head than permanently disfiguring someone as crazy as it sounds.
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Dont have to reload a ball bat or sword!
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