Why not both? Winchester PDX-1 Defender, a one ounce foster slug with 3 pellets of 00 buck. Other than that I generally use 00.
I've treated quite a few shotgun injuries over my career and none of the birdshot ones hit anything vital. The shot column broke up to rapidly to penetrate verry far. I'll stick with at least #4 buck or larger.At home defense distance bird shot will do fine. I shot a 2X6 at 10 feet with birdshot and it made a 1-2 inch hole. Plus less over-penetration if you live in an apartment.
Indirect fire. Also taught by the Military back in the day and I'm sure it is now.Our 870 loadout was 00 buck, slug, 00, slug 00, and two more boxes of each in the trunk.
Something neat in shotgun range class we learned how to bounce shoot off of a concrete wall and under a car. I never knew bullets would follow the wall or ground about 6 inches when shot on a hard flat surface. If someone is hiding behind a vehicle shooting at you, you can shoot buckshot about 10 to 15 feet on the ground before the vehicle and take out his legs.
I don't know if that is still taught or not.
Back in the day, we were taught bouncing off the street using buckshot to disperse an unruly mob as well as targets behind vehicles or walls. A fairly new recruit said the same thing during his training.Indirect fire. Also taught by the Military back in the day and I'm sure it is now.
This. Birdshot makes gruesome wounds, but to stop someone, large buckshot or slug.I've treated quite a few shotgun injuries over my career and none of the birdshot ones hit anything vital. The shot column broke up to rapidly to penetrate verry far. I'll stick with at least #4 buck or larger.
Indirect fire. Also taught by the Military back in the day and I'm sure it is now.
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