Spent the early morning hunting hogs with some buddies. Mostly .223 / 5.56 used, including me. One guy had a 12ga with a mix of buckshot & slugs.
Results were interesting;
- Buckshot, 00 I think, wasn't as impressive as I'd thought it would be. It either slayed like Thor's hammer or didn't do much and required a 5.56 headshot to put down.
- Slugs were equally effective as good 5.56 bullets if proper shot placement.
- .223 Federal Fusion was plenty effective if proper shot placement. This is what I shot.
- M855 green tip was not impressive.
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Here's my choice for shooting deer in a restricted (straight wall) state and HD.
https://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperst...-purpose-rifle
Winner.
Last edited by Borderland; 09-21-2019 at 07:06 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
I disagree. In several shotgun classes, I've seen the wad go straight through the cardboard. Getting that into your eye, would not be pleasant. We discussed that when practicing the hostage shot. I said before, that I would go with the rifle for home SD as first choice.
Well, I admit, it’s been a minute since I scooped an eye out and cut it open in anatomy class. But it’s still considerably more elastic than cardboard.
It’s also surrounded by a very dense bony socket. And a 12-gauge wad is about as large in diameter as a human eye. Making the likelihood of a direct impact on an eye, which is what it would take to damage the eye massively, would be virtual luck. I think it’s more likely that 1) the eye lid is closed. 2) the wad, doesn’t even get close to the face. 3) if it does, it will likely strike some portion of the nose/zygomatic and result in deflection of the was. Causing a fairly superficial laceration, maybe requiring a few stitches and an eye patch for a few days.
This is an almost totally overblown issue guys.
Last edited by RevolverRob; 09-24-2019 at 03:35 PM.