LaEscopeta
Member
I’ll repeat the advice I’ve heard from others, more informed and experienced then me:
1. Do everything you can to avoid a defense situation.
2. If and only if you fail at number 1 and are forced to use deadly force to defend yourself or others, use the weapon you have at hand that you know and can use best.
3. Consider a range of possible defense scenarios and work out rough plans for how you will handle each. Practice your responses and learn your capabilities and limits (also of you weapon.) Knowing these will help you improvise when (not if) you are in a defense situation where you did not think out every detail in advance. Don’t get hung up on defending one particular scenario; these are rare events and you can not calculate the odds of a particular scenario happening to you. If it is not a rare event for you (more then 0 to 1 time in a lifetime) you need to move.
In my own case, I was following the buck-in-the-tube-slugs-in-the-side-saddle method described above but discovered a flaw in the plan. I can’t consistently hit an 8.5” x 11” paper target past 25 yards (buckshot range) with slugs from my bead sighted shotgun. (I can however hit the homemade PVC pipe target stand at 100 yards and this is highly amusing to everyone at the range.) So assuming more practice does not fix this flaw, I’m looking at:
- Rifle or peep sights on the HD shotgun.
- Federal Flitecontrol rounds to extend buckshot range.
- A shotgun for inside and a rifle for outside.
1. Do everything you can to avoid a defense situation.
2. If and only if you fail at number 1 and are forced to use deadly force to defend yourself or others, use the weapon you have at hand that you know and can use best.
3. Consider a range of possible defense scenarios and work out rough plans for how you will handle each. Practice your responses and learn your capabilities and limits (also of you weapon.) Knowing these will help you improvise when (not if) you are in a defense situation where you did not think out every detail in advance. Don’t get hung up on defending one particular scenario; these are rare events and you can not calculate the odds of a particular scenario happening to you. If it is not a rare event for you (more then 0 to 1 time in a lifetime) you need to move.
In my own case, I was following the buck-in-the-tube-slugs-in-the-side-saddle method described above but discovered a flaw in the plan. I can’t consistently hit an 8.5” x 11” paper target past 25 yards (buckshot range) with slugs from my bead sighted shotgun. (I can however hit the homemade PVC pipe target stand at 100 yards and this is highly amusing to everyone at the range.) So assuming more practice does not fix this flaw, I’m looking at:
- Rifle or peep sights on the HD shotgun.
- Federal Flitecontrol rounds to extend buckshot range.
- A shotgun for inside and a rifle for outside.