Zundfolge
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For some time we've had my wife's old Winchester 1200 16ga loaded up with #8 bird shot in the closet as a home defense weapon. I also have a .40 under the bed and was planning on retiring it and the shotgun when my AR15 comes in (should be any day now) but the wife is more comfortable with her old shottie, so I figured we'd stay with it.
Well we've had the gun loaded up in the closet since the Carr brothers thing happened (we lived in Wichita at the time). The wife insisted we pick it up from her folks house and we picked up the only 16ga. ammo that KMart had in stock at the time which was 2-3/4" Winchester #8 Upland Game Loads.
Is that good enough for home defense?
Would 00 shot out of a 16ga have enough energy to do any better?
Should I instead save some pennies and get her a nice 12ga?
This thread here got me wondering ... http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33322
Well we've had the gun loaded up in the closet since the Carr brothers thing happened (we lived in Wichita at the time). The wife insisted we pick it up from her folks house and we picked up the only 16ga. ammo that KMart had in stock at the time which was 2-3/4" Winchester #8 Upland Game Loads.
Is that good enough for home defense?
Would 00 shot out of a 16ga have enough energy to do any better?
Should I instead save some pennies and get her a nice 12ga?
This thread here got me wondering ... http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33322