What I am talking about the Cops voting Impact is.
probably sense 1910 or there abouts, experts have derided the 45 acp that it will not penetrate S***, but when you compare it to the calibers that will penetrate the 45ACP, ruled the roast on one shot stops, that is one somewhat well placed hit and the fight is over! And even the (KING OF Penetration) the 125grn HP 357mag hasn't been able to go be get the 45 ACP off the top!
SO when we are talking Home Defense, to me anyway we are talking that we want to end the situation with one shot.
If in a situation where I have to fire a shot I want to know that ONE shot will work! I also know until anyone has done it, trained or untrained that first is a HUGE """""?"""""""", and anybody with sense needs to think about the what if, I miss,
and taken the one shot question together with the what if, at a HD range that will keep me out of prison and have a reasonable chance of keeping the shysters from getting everything I own,
A load of 1 ounce bird shot will give a one shot stop, and if doesn't your Buckshot won't either, because in talking with the cops that clean up the after effects, out to a range three or four times what I have chance to plead my case and not go to jail or prison and loose all I own, Any shotgun load can will and has picked the BG's off there feet and thrown them around like rag dolls!
The biggest question in HD is not the Shot it is what happens after, That is why every decent friearms instructer tells there class'es never shoot reloads!
Or a weapon that can be portayed as "you only have this weapon to kill someone, how long have you been planning this!!????????..............." Wiggle out of this in front of twelve men and women that are hand picked because of what they DO NOT KNOW about firearms!
So will bird shot defend myself in my home? YES and in spades, and at ranges that have to be seen to be beleived!