WrongHanded
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Shotguns seem less and less popular for home defense these days. Perhaps a fundamental shift towards higher capacity, easy of reloading, lower recoil, longer range capabilities, etc?
I've always kept one around for home defense purposes, but have recently become more interested in practice with actually running the gun, and have been doing some research towards that end. In doing so, I've found the stickies on this sub forum to be very informative in more ways than I was anticipating.
But it's brought me to wonder, given how effective 9 pellets of 00 buck seems to be at the sort of ranges one could reasonable expect to find in their own home - and the devastating wounding such a load can inflict - how popular are shotguns amongst THR members?
If you don't keep a shotgun for HD, why not? And what do you prefer instead, and why?
I've always kept one around for home defense purposes, but have recently become more interested in practice with actually running the gun, and have been doing some research towards that end. In doing so, I've found the stickies on this sub forum to be very informative in more ways than I was anticipating.
But it's brought me to wonder, given how effective 9 pellets of 00 buck seems to be at the sort of ranges one could reasonable expect to find in their own home - and the devastating wounding such a load can inflict - how popular are shotguns amongst THR members?
If you don't keep a shotgun for HD, why not? And what do you prefer instead, and why?