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Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak
I dont agree with using rubber buckshot in a defensive shotgun. If your life is not in danger in the process of a home invasion, you shouldnt be shooting. Take up a defensive position and call the police. If your life is threatened then you want your weapon to be as effective as possible.
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(Crompsin is forced to defend himself against Walter's verbal assaults with 12 gauge rubber buckshot)
Come by the barn, brother... we can test the effectiveness. It isn't pepper spray, it's 12 gauge.
They call it "less lethal" because it is
less likely to kill someone. At short ranges, who knows? I certainly wouldn't wanna take one at anything less than an unrealistic 50 feet (warnings suggest that less than 50' is the "less than" less lethal range).
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If my life is threatened... I want to be able to exercise a variety of intelligent options instead of simply using the George W. Bush "a sledgehammer is a good flyswatter" tactical model. I do not make PBJ sandwiches with a machete, I do not wipe my ass with hospital bedsheets "just to be sure." I am not Blaine from
Predator nor will I be loading Federal 1 ounce rifled slugs into my Cobray/Demars Streetsweeper and laying it next to my teddy bear and the sat phone I have set up to call DK in the event, post-incident, I feel like saying, "Dude, you were right! They ARE out to get us!" before I contact my attorney and the cops show up to cuff me.
Instead, I keep the "sissy" buckshot in the tube and a full load of Federal 00 on the stock. All it takes is rack, dump, and ejection port feed of a "red 'n deadly" to replace the "orange 'n slappy." I practice this. I like Mossberg's slide release location better, but the two guns I have set up for this are Remington-style.
'Course, if somebody really scares me... I'm liable to sling the shotgun and go for the USP on my hip and see how many Hydrashoks it requires to persuade someone to stop being a silly felon in my living room. See, I have these old Trijicons I wanna use before they burn out.