.455_Hunter
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Assuming identical platforms, which loading would you chose for home defense- The .410 3" with five 000 buckshot or the 20 ga 3" with eighteen 2 buckshot?
Thanks for your input.
Hunter
Thanks for your input.
Hunter
If you have a wife or people of smaller stature in your house, no doubt, get the .410. Better to hit with a .410 than miss with a 20, and smaller people have hard time handling even the 20 much less the 12, 10, or 8 gauge shotguns.
Wife is just a scosh over 5', soaking wet probably (women never tell) around 100#. She can handle the 20 ga like a bandleader does a baton.
That's good and I'm glad to here that, Jeepnik, because the 20 gauge is more effective. But there are older folks in my family that can't handle a 20 gauge loaded with buckshot. For them, a Mossberg HS410 would be ideal.