I'm fond of my M4.
I'm fond of my M4.
Solved by running a full sized gun with a 6-8 round mag tube. Breachers are in a really bad spot the minute the door opens when they shotgun breach. A lot of teams are using pistol gripped shortys with 4 rounds in them and no sights which makes for a dicey situation if you have a positive breach and bad guys are just inside the door. Good frangible Breaching rounds are actually minute of head across a room and behave like a slug at short ranges. Plus it cuts down on all the shit a breacher is carrying which with demo/manual tools it gets silly.
The art and copy of the original news story shows how far the British Empire has sunk in terms of understanding of arms. The photos were of a Benelli Nova Pump and they called the M4 a pump!
"Backstabbers and window-lickers rise to the top of human organizations like oxygen-rich turds in a champagne fountain. I suspect it's been that way since at least the Bronze Age." _ Me. 2016
I just picked out the cheapest steel external cylinder bore choke for the Benelli M4 thread pattern that Brownells sells.
To me the external choke is more of a muzzle/thread protector than a choke (since I went with cylinder bore) so high quality for the best choked pattern wasn't a priority.
"For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and, satisfied, drove on into the night."
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy --
A shotgun can certainly do the job, within its performance envelope. Most justifiable self-defense, in my environment, happens within effective shotgun range. This was true as a night shift patrol officer, with Houston PD, and is true in my retirement. I used a pump gun for most of my career, but used an HK-era Benelli M1 Super 90 for a while in the Nineties, and finished my career with a Benelli M2. Had I known how sweet the Comfort Tech stock would be, I would have switched to an M2 much sooner.
The Benelli M4 was not on the approved list, when I was with HPD, but I may add one, now that I am retired. I appreciate the lightness of the M2 as a field/forest gun, but weight is less relevant for home/vehicle defense.
My wife worked for the Harris County M.E. For 21 years, as a Death Scene Investigator. Death Scene, not morgue. Blood spatter evidence is a science, so a death scene investigator knows how far, and how fast, the decedent moved, after being shot. Harris County is the third most-populous county in the USA. My wife likes 00 buckshot in her defensive shotgun.
To drift off-topic a bit, she was impressed with the one-shot, stop-right-there, dead-right-there performance of Speer Short Barrel Gold Dot 135-grain .357 Magnum, diagonally through the torso. (Yes, this is an anecdote, not data, and, a sample of only one.)
Retar’d LE. Kinesthetic dufus.
Don’t tread on volcanos!