This old Model 12 has done some righteous critter control in its day, most notably when my grandfather used it to stop a rabid fox as it was tearing through a screen door. Multiple generations of my family have relied upon it. However, as revered as it is, it's not what I would grab first with the knowledge I have today.
Any shotgun in social use must be able to pattern so that every pellet will hit center mass at the longest shot within the home. I'm just not finding a 20ga buckshot load that will do it.
I had an ER nurse in a class. I noticed she kept taking all head shots. Her response when asked why, "'I've seen too many people who have been shot in the chest putting up a fight in the ER." Point taken.
Some women have trouble with the weight of a twelve gauge, and prefer the handling of a 20. This is my wife’s Benelli. It has a Trijicon HD front sight and custom rear inlet-ed into the vent rib, and with a Nordic tube packs a lot of hate into a trim package.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
@GJM
What size buckshot patterns are you getting from those?
I had an ER nurse in a class. I noticed she kept taking all head shots. Her response when asked why, "'I've seen too many people who have been shot in the chest putting up a fight in the ER." Point taken.
I wouldn’t know as the only stuff we have shot through it is a whole bunch of Brenneke slugs and a few #6 high brass to incidentally harvest some game birds. It spends its whole life loaded with slugs, and we select shot for a bird, with the single shot shell we carry with us. With our defensive shotguns, I don’t keep buckshot around, because it is only a liability for how we use the shotgun.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
That could be an interesting discussion. I was influenced many years ago by my instructors, Louis Awerbuck and Randy Cain, who carried slugs in their personal shotguns. Their reasoning was we own everything we launch, and they would rather own one slug than eight or nine balls plus a wad.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
That's #1 Spartan 20 gauge from a Mossberg 500 at 15 yards.
Last edited by TCinVA; 08-30-2018 at 10:34 PM.
3/15/2016