profoundly stupid question
- By ShootingArts
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Well a 12 gauge pump with 5 rounds starts rock salt then bird shot the #2 shots and finish it with a slug.
I can rack a pump as fast as a semi auto. Can rack till I get to what I need in emergency.
You do emergency train the Child wrens. Right????
Shotguns against big targets are unpredictable. My twelve for social purposes was loaded with a 6 then five rounds of double ought. One night I had a beautiful big healthy heavy coated German Shepherd attack a barrel horse. Twenty thousand dollar horse plus my wife's pet. Third night in a row and less than a week after a back surgery. I told my son to grab his twelve I had given him as a birthday present on his twelfth. I screwed the choke to whatever maximum full choke was called. 7.5 wasn't my choice of load to use but I could barely walk and there wasn't anything else handy. The dog was at about forty yards and my impression just in the brief glimpse from muzzle flash was that I had shot a bit high.
Regardless, the 7.5 shot killed the dog graveyard dead as I found the next morning. First project when my son got home from school, get rid of the evidence! Morons dumped a dog. Shooting it wasn't something I wanted to do but options were few.
Did teach me a lesson. You can't trust a shotgun to kill with a light load, you can't trust it to not kill either!
Hu
