Shotguns
From Free Talk Live
Shotguns are a fairly universal choice for home defense. Not only is the sound of a shotgun loading a round distinctive and fear inducing, they are very effective at the short ranges one finds in such defensive situations. Standard shotgun rounds are also less likely to penetrate walls than handgun or riffle ammunition, leading to a lower collateral damage during use and improved safety for ones neighbors. Manwich brought up an ammunition recipe for a shotgun consisting of alternating rounds of double-ought buckshot and slugs. Slugs have a massive amount of stopping power but will travel readily through walls; their use must be well thought out.
The validity of such a recipe was called into question: the reasoning was that buckshot should be enough to stop any person. Triddle called in and explained the reasoning behind such a recipe. A gun should never be used for anything besides an emergency situation and they should never be pointed at something or someone unless that object is to be utterly destroyed. Any sane person is going to stop immediately when they hear the sound of a shotgun racking. If that alone is not enough to induce the person into compliance it may become necessary to actually fire upon them. This alone should be enough to drop most people, but not everyone is going to immediately respond to being shot. In this instance, say the person is completely insane and will stop at nothing less than your destruction, more stopping power is required.
If the person is so out of their mind that being shot with buckshot won't stop them there is little recourse left but their death. Assuming this is the case the shooter's intentions are now to stop the person by any means possible. With out the attacker's compliance in this matter, the blood pressure in their body must be reduced to a level where their muscles are no longer able to propel them forward. Buckshot may not be able to easily bring about the required number of holes in the target to achieve this, but a slug certainly will. Thus, the alternating buckshot and slug recipe does make sense.
