Re: Slugs.
I am just a dumb old southern boy.
Just a J.Q. Public, that was never in Law Enforcement and still has his Draft Card as I was not selected for the free trip to Vietnam.
I was born into a hi-risk environment.
No gun schools back in the day, instead my lessons (training) and set ups (stages) were private.
Those that came before me, shared years and years of experience of having been in this environment.
Not only did these share lessons, also some other interesting ladies and gents, with years and years of experience from being in wars, conflicts and being in police and military.
Not all persons were from the south USA. Nor were they from the USA period.
WE speak of folks accessing their environment and in doing so having Mindset, Skill sets, "then" Toolsets for their tasks.
I had a mentor from South Africa, royally chew me out when I was a teenager ( around age 13 or 14).
The "set up" was in a structure, with the recording of screams, and fighting, of someone close to me, being kidnapped, and this female putting up a fight.
Simple, kidnap the lady, and use her to force others to do things. The easiest way to bypass alarms and vault/safe doors.
I got yelled at for picking up a shell I had dropped.
"In my country if you pick up something dropped, you may lose a hand, arm, get seriously injured or die!"
This is the clean version.
( I understand Awerbuck does not allow folks to pick up a dropped shotgun shell either. He too has experiences from being South African).
My instructions "stop the threat".
This recording was an actual recording of someone close to me, that in real life could be kidnapped to force me to do things.
The recordings are informing me, she is being slapped, and cut with a knife, and even the sounds of her spitting and cursing them, and fighting back and ...
Targets were not face on, not were all stationary, and the greatest percentage were 3 dimensional.
My largest target presentation one time, was a knee, so I shot the knee with a slug.
Another time, It was the head. The head would "sneak-peak", and I used a slug to go through a cabinet and hit the head.
My tools for tasks.
You see, I was raised with 3 Rules of Gun Safety, Rule 3 was split to make Rule 4 later on.
I was raised on a hot range. Besides the 3 rules of Gun Safety, some other rules, like if you screwed up, you owned it. No excuses, learn from it. No boorish behavior, because if you are going to carry/use guns, then you cannot be a arse...
With lessons and set ups, no start buzzers. In real life, there is no start buzzer like a Pact Timer.
My "start" could be anything...
i.e. I had a lady partner, and I was supposed to met her and others at a private range, which had shoot houses.
Just to get together and shoot the bull and have Pizza and ...
So I show up, and I have shared so many times, my concerns have been entering and exiting a structure and answering a door.
Meaning I cannot go around with a long gun slung.
I enter the shoot house and hell broke loose. I went from just meeting folks to have Pizza to a serious set up.
My lady partner had been recorded, and this set up was BGs trying to get information out of her about me, and other things.
Hitting her, slapping her, and they were going to rape her, as they went about to get this information ,then kidnap her to use against me and mine, and continue to rape her during this whole, awful ordeal.
I walk into this. The recording explained what I needed to know.
This shoot house was arranged to replicate a setting familiar to me, my lady partner, and some others.
BGs were full size targets (scarecrows basically) and rigged where they would move.
Yes, one BG is atop a female scarecrow which represented my lady partner.
There were Three BGs total.
Yes, I took the shot with a slug, from a shotgun in a location in that structure, that replicated a real one.
I went for the head shot, but had to wait until BG atop her, raised up a bit.
Then the other two BGs were presented where I had clear shots. They were shooting in my direction.
Err...I showed up for Pizza and ended up having a serious set up lesson to do.
I was dressed in casual slacks, oxford shirt, penny loafers.
The only thing different , was being handed a pair of clear shooting glasses and foam ear plugs.
I do not have a problem with buckshot. For one, I choose to have some choke, about .15 to .19 meaning approx Skeet II to Modified choke, depending on bore diameter.
Still, I have had buckshot fail in the real world, shooting live critters.
Just me, then again my tasks and environments shape me - just as everyone else should be shaped by theirs.
Go set up a stage as I have described, complete with the recording of wife, girlfriend, daughter.
Keep in mind, I often had no idea I was going to shoot a set up like this. I just showed up and it was a set up for me to shoot. Just like it happens in the real world.
One minute you are coming home to have pizza, upon entering, you discover other serious matters.
Whatcha gonna do?