If you must use a weapon. It has to be lethal. Let's say someone hopped up on PCP breaks in. You shoot them with bird shot. It want stop them. And you might be killed. #4 buck is the lightest you should use. I mean for that matter use rubber buck instead of bird. Read up on the sticky up top on defense ammo.Must it be buckshot? Bird shot wouldn't feel good and would probably discourage a home intruder and it isn't nonlethal either. If bird shot were an option you could go with target loads for lower recoil.
If you must use a weapon. It has to be lethal. Let's say someone hopped up on PCP breaks in. You shoot them with bird shot. It want stop them. And you might be killed. #4 buck is the lightest you should use. I mean for that matter use rubber buck instead of bird. Read up on the sticky up top on defense ammo.
I was thinking the same thing.Reduced Recoil and semi-autos can be a problem.
If you must use a weapon. It has to be lethal. Let's say someone hopped up on PCP breaks in. You shoot them with bird shot. It want stop them. And you might be killed. #4 buck is the lightest you should use. I mean for that matter use rubber buck instead of bird. Read up on the sticky up top on defense ammo.
NO, NO, NO, and NO.Must it be buckshot? Bird shot wouldn't feel good and would probably discourage a home intruder and it isn't nonlethal either. If bird shot were an option you could go with target loads for lower recoil.
Reduced Recoil and semi-autos can be a problem.
I'm pretty sure that if someone gets shot at close range with a shotgun, they will be hurt badly or killed.
This is why there is reduced recoil loads. Substitute PCP for oxycodone, meth, drunk, crack I have seen tasers fail to take folks down hopped up on any number of things. And yes both prongs connected. Just didn't work. To intoxicated to feel much of anything. Use what you like. For me and mine #4 in 12ga and 00 buck in 20 ga for my wife. And it's called birds for a reason. We humans are bigger and tougher then birds. Save the bird shot for birds. If you must use bird shot then use a steel goose shell.The reality is that many women and not a few men are intolerant of recoil and will never be otherwise. The don't really like to shoot and will never put in the time that would be needed to cure their intolerance. Bird shot would be a lot better than nothing.
I'm also skeptical that a load of bird shot at close range wouldn't stop someone "hopped up on PCP." That said, most attackers aren't under the influence of PCP so being able to stop someone on PCP is mostly irrelevant.
Might depend on the size of that birdshot. #2s will hurt. Smaller buck like #1 will also do the job.If you must use a weapon. It has to be lethal. Let's say someone hopped up on PCP breaks in. You shoot them with bird shot. It want stop them. And you might be killed. #4 buck is the lightest you should use. I mean for that matter use rubber buck instead of bird. Read up on the sticky up top on defense ammo.
Many years ago I cut open some slugs and put them in a stock of a single shot 12. It helped alot. Still kicked like a mule but not as bad before adding weight.Go with #4 buck…goes through less drywall (something to think about) and has the potential of less recoil. Also add some weight to the gun…depending upon what gun you have you might be able to add mercury recoil reducer in the stock and to the end of the magazine cap. I know they can be purchased for Remington 1100 and 870’s, not sure of the others.