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View Poll Results: Your IDEAL shot size for Home defense. | |||
000 Buck | 5 | 4.42% | |
00 Buck | 60 | 53.10% | |
0 Buck | 0 | 0% | |
#1 Buck | 29 | 25.66% | |
#2 Buck | 1 | 0.88% | |
Other... Please elaborate. | 18 | 15.93% | |
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June 18, 2011, 09:27 AM | #76 |
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00 buck easily in lead on final stretch heading for home already 2nd half of 30range(call it advertising I guess). closest 2nd # 1 buck barely in the 20 range. lots of good points, and also there are much more right answers than wrong answers with this thread. 00 works for me, but it might not for some others depending on their circumstances or preferences
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Best home defense load is not Buckshot. At close range (6-10 ft) just about any birdshot load is going to act like a glazer saftey slug on steriods, punching one gaping hole in the middle and excerting all energy inside the intruder. I have see 2 deer accidently killed with #6s (long story). When you are in your house and shooting 00 buck you are basically shooting the equivilent of nine 357 magnums in your house or apartment if using a 2-3/4" shell. Not good for anyone on the other side of the wall. Easy experiment: place sections of sheet rock 4" apart and shoot at them and see how many walls it goes through before it stops.
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I voted 00 and keep it handy. I've also got #4 buck, and wouldn't hesitate to use it as well.
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June 20, 2011, 02:19 AM | #79 |
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lots of good points but the bottom line is the poll is pointing to 00 buck
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thank you for the article
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Sport45... good article---A picture is worth a 1000 words --- wished they'd done the birdshot version. Also there are variables like: thickness of the sheetrock for example: in standard home it's usually 1/2 to 5/8 thick . in a commercial building it's up to 3/4, in a trailer or doublewide 3/8 or less with less bracing. cool article---
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Thanks for welcoming aboard--been reading your threads for years--though i'd just start injecting some of my own..
Oh BTW--I have to disagree with the birdshot portion of the article--it being hear say. Like I said I had a friend who had killed 2 deer eating up his garden---called the game warden up and said to shoot them if they were distroying property. He did--he thought he'd loaded the gun with 00buck that he usually kept in it for self-defense but it still had #6 turkey loads in it from spring gobbler season. Dropped em both. When he told me I didn't believe him(even laughed) , until I helped him clean and quarter them. One was a good size doe. BTW this was a good 6 yards from his house. I don't know what the guy in the article got shot with, could have been a light 1100fps 1oz #6 game/target load. Being a reloader I know how much difference a couple 100fps makes on a light projectile. Just more food for thought. |
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The Box O Truth results are corroborated by evidence (presented in pictorial form). Now, if you personally witnessed your friend shooting the deer, then that would not be hearsay. I have personally seen several dogs shot with bird shot - only to yelp and run away. I've personally seen bird shot knock feathers off of a pheasant - only to watch the pheasant fly away. |
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June 20, 2011, 06:40 PM | #85 |
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Same goes for gun stories
a fairy tale starts out: "once upon a time", a fisherman's tale starts out: "this ain't no bulls&*$." -CPT Phil(RIP) "After the Catch"(show following "Deadliest Catch")
the deer story is the one not corroborated...it would be nice to see those results though & he probably already conducted tests (maybe not since he said it's for birds). I personally would never use it, but others seem to think its just fine...
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"When you are in your house and shooting 00 buck you are basically shooting the equivilent of nine 357 magnums in your house or apartment if using a 2-3/4" shell."
Just an important correction, without attitude, in that... The 158 gr. (0.36 ozs.) 357 Mag at 1,485 fps is very powerful. A 55 gr. (0.125 ozs.) 00 Buckshot pellet at 1,325 fps is comparatively weak. Nine of them make a difference but, and this is ironic 45Long, it is more like firing nine .32 Long Colt blackpowder cartridges from 1875. A 3" 000 Buck Mag is closer to firing 10 .380 ACP + P. Last edited by Gehrhard; June 20, 2011 at 07:41 PM. |
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Each 00 pellet weights 55 grs. and travels @ 1150fps in low recoil tactical buck, or about 1350 fps in standard loads. That doesn't begin to approach the power of, say, a 125gr. bullet @ around 1400 fps--and more in longer bbl. lengths. Individual 00 buck pellets have considerably less penetrating power than any pistol one might keep in the home for SD. For those wishing to have a home defensive weapon that that limits it's effectiveness to 10' and may not penetrate the couch Bubba is using for cover even within that range, then birdshot is the choice for you. I can live with your choice. Hope you can. |
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Maybe 9 357 magnums is an over statement , but go to the box 'o truth link and see how many 5/8 thick pieces of sheetrock they went through. As far as hearsay on the 2 deer. I saw that with my own eyes. Picked out a bunch of the shot myself. So to me it's gospel and i know there will be skeptics out there. I have also peppered a few animals with birdshot (at a distance) and watched them run. As I said the kind of load makes a big difference.
hmm--maybe a little homemade ballistics gel could tell a story here? I love ballistics and reloading. Wonder what a 1290fps 7/8oz game load would do versus a 1250 1-1/2oz load. I'm starting to suspect it was the weight and the larger concetration of shot that made the difference. |
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One other thing I worked @ a packing house when I was 20. Every now and then a bull would come into the knocking shute that didn't get phased by that knocking hammer with the retractible bolt. Guess what they used then?
An old H&R single shot with ,you guessed it ,low brass bird shot. Of course it was shot from only 2-3 feet away but it dropped em like a ton of bricks. Also scared the hell out everyone in the kill room because they never warned anyone first. |
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Given that you've seen two deer killed by buckshot and I've personally shot a number of pheasants, watched feathers fly, and then watched the dang birds fly away ... I'd say the verdict on birdshot as a large mammal/man killer is still a long ways out. |
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Birdshot is deadly at close range. When it spreads out it loses steam quickly. At HD ranges, and with a reasonable choke, a hi brass 6 will do some damage. At HD ranges it'll still be a slug.
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I use 00 buck, because I expect it'll stop the badguy sooner and more decisively than smaller shot. I do this because I expect if I'm forced to shoot the badguy, I'm not the only one in the situation armed and I want his trigger finger to stop moving ASAP. I know where my family is in the house and which walls not to shoot toward. He doesn't and if he did, probably wouldn't care. Ergo......buckshot for me. As always YMMV.....
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What I've seen used most on cows were 22short,22lr and an occasional 22mag. |
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If your in-home distances are less than 12 feet (like those in the Box O Truth) tests, you might successfully defend yourself with bird shot. Then again ... you might not. Ultimately, you get to make your choice and I get to make mine. |
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All in all if you hit them with anything out of a shotgun it's very doubtful that he'll be going room to room from that point. Especially if peppered in the face.
I shoot enough skeet to feel comfident enough to know his chances of getting more than one round fired at him will be very high.
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I can definitely appreciate the desire to limit the danger to innocent bystanders; but I think going with a load that doesn't even penetrate sheet rock is taking that to ridiculous levels. Ultimately, the use of deadly force is to protect you and your family from an immediate threat of death or serious injury. It seems to me that failing to stop that threat quickly and with as few shots as possible is more likely to result in injury to myself or others than a stray shot - after all, the intruder is unlikely to have the same concern about overpenetration. |
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yay! Another buckshot -vs- birshot thread!
I agree 100% with Bartholomew Roberts
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You choose ammunition based on a worst-case scenario, not the best. You prepare for a worst-case scenario, not the best. That's why you should choose a load that will put the maximum advantage in your corner. If you knew that there is a person in a room behind the bad guy and you're only separated by drywall, would you really risk taking a shot and rely solely on the birdshot to not hurt or kill someone in case of a miss? With birdshot you are wise to keep in mind that your gunfire has the potential to not produce an effective wound. Do not expect birdshot to have any decisive effect. Use buckshot and make the first shot count. It will also keep the amount of collateral damages to a minimum.
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