just make sure you shoulder that badboywest-phoenix-az wrote:
Maybe in your case it may be more luck than skill, but for those who practice with full autos its skill.Twist wrote:
Automatic guns are shit. You can't hunt with them, you can't kill someone with them (well, you can, but with accuracy it's more luck than skill if you hit)
Full autos can be accurate if used correctly by someone with experience.If you feel the need to shoot, shoot to kill, never shoot to wound or scare.Twist wrote:
Shotguns, ok, they're a good deterent, and you can load it up with some weird shit if you want (go bean bags !) to scare people off, the noise is deafening too.
Do not introduce a deadly weapon to a situation you don't feel requires deadly force.
Just because the police can shoot people with beanbags doesn't mean you will not get in trouble or pay a lot of cash to the victim.
If you were so scared for your life you had to shoot the person, why didn't you shoot to kill?Accuracy with a shotgun is frequently about luck? How did you come up with this?Twist wrote:
Range pretty much sucks on shotguns (depending on ammo), and accuracy is frequently about luck, so hunting is well... Problematic at best, unless you spend MUCHO dinero on the ammo. While a shotgun looks impressive, it IS primarly a close range weapon and thus it's a good deterent against an intruder.
You don't have to shoot expensive shotgun ammo to be accurate.
I like birdshot, 00 buck and rifled slugs all of which are cheap, accurate and extremely deadly.
A shotgun is the ultimate home defense rifle. You can quickly change rounds for different situations.
If you have bird shot, 00 buck and rifled slugs on your shotgun you are ready for about anything you will come across in or around your home.So with "some" training you can "easily" hit a moving target at 300'-0" with a .357 revolver, but hitting something with a shotgun is luck?Twist wrote:
While a shotgun looks impressive, it IS primarly a close range weapon and thus it's a good deterent against an intruder. But if that intruder is armed, I'd much prefer to have my S&W .357 mag handy. That thing is accurate like no other high calibre handgun I've ever tried, the ammo will shoot through 3 walls and still knock down a rhino ! It's easy to maneuver in the house, and the noise level is a good deterent, plus with some training you can hit a moving target at 300 ft easily. Loading is easy, storage is minimal so locking it up so the kids dont play with it is easy. Ofcourse the "3 walls and killing a rhino" part kindof works AGAINST the effectiveness if you live in an apartment building !
I really question your firearm experience and knowledge based on what you have said and how you said it.
00 buck is brutal...