MCgunner
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I'm not a big fan of the 20, there are plenty of light loads in 12 gauge that duplicate 20 gauge recoil.
It might defy logic, but I find 20 really is lighter on the shoulder even if both shells are packin' 7/8 ounces. I don't really know why, but I will buy no more 12s in light guns. I have a pair of 12s and an old side by side 12 and my gas gun is sweet, the only way to go in a 12 gauge once you get old and tired of getting pounded by 3" heavy waterfowl loads. I might get a Spartan 453 in the future, don't know. I have a Mossberg for goose hunting and general waterfowl and my Winchester 1400. I really don't need another shotgun. I'll be using my light side by side 20 a LOT on doves, though. I like that thing, and it'll be an awesome quick pointing gun on quail or other upland stuff. I've even got some 3" steel for it to take it on some early duck hunts this season just for grins. Yeah, the 12 is a better all around and better waterfowl gun and since I shoot mostly waterfowl, I'm flush with 12 gauge guns. But, I was missing having a 20 in the safe, so I got one. I like it a lot and it fills a niche for me that needed filling. I could have gotten the same gun in 12, but my shoulder appreciates the 20.
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a 12 gauge can blow a man through a wall in a defence cituation. I've never seen a 20 do that!
Ever seen a 12 do that? I haven't.
Yeah, in the movie "Open Range", Duval blows a guy off his feet with a blast from a 12. ROFLMAO! I hollered BS at the TV on that one and the wife thought me weird, but it is BS. I mean, they had the guy lifted right off his feet and he flew into a wall of a building and this after the blast had blow a hole in the wall Duval was shooting through. ROFL They sorta miffed that one, but that's Hollywood. If you go believing everything you see in a movie, you will be one screwed up individual.
By the way, is that a "defense citation" or is that a "defense situation"? LOL It can be "defence" if you live in Britain I suppose. Hmm, guess I'm going to have to find a couple of volunteers and see if my 20 can "blow him" off his feet. Shoot one with the 12 and one with the 20. I've never actually seen a man shot with either. Well, I did see a kid peppered with number six from about 30 yards with a 12, result of a Dick Cheney style hunting accident, but it didn't blow him off his feet any quicker than Cheney's 28 blew that lawyer off his. I remember a dude who walked into the emergency room of the hospital I worked at as a kid, holding his guts in with his hands. He'd been shot point blank in the stomach with a 12 gauge and drove himself to the hospital where they patched him up. He survived. Don't know what condition the wall was in that was behind him, though.