In a shooting we had at my local Sheriff’s Office when I was younger, the offender, a man of common stature, was shot in the area of the belly button square on with a Mossberg 500 50521 12 ga 6 shot with 18 inch barrel Tactical Shotgun maxed out with 8-pellet (yes, eight pellets - it eradicates the one stray pellet normally encountered in 00 buck shot patterns) 00 Buckshot load at a distance of about seven yards.

This load, by the way is superb, one of the very best law enforcement loads, and one of the tightest patterning loads I have ever shot in any shotgun. It will increase the safe usage of heavy gauge buckshot well out to 30 yards, and is great for headshots at seven to 10 yards, or a little further out in improved cylinder choke barrels. The 8 pellet load is really pretty good and has a very tight group. The round is good for head shots or shots out to 30 yards. It can be improved much more if you employ a choke.

At any rate, the nut job got his guts blown out his back side. Needless to say he was stopped in his tracks but did not cease to live.

The round is called buckshot for a purpose, its for giant animals.

Most crooks are too foolish to understand that they face an equal amount of damage, maybe even more, due to shredding effect of all those little pellets from a close range load of bird shot as they do from the 00. However, don’t be fooled. These loads can and definately will go all the way through drywall at close range. Remember, they merely spread one inch per yard, and at close range it is a lot like getting hit with a single, solid projectile. The bad guy is too foolish to recognize the injury buckshot can do.

If you are wary of the pellets going past the boundary, you may think about a lower guage shotguns with less power A lower powered handgun, which can still punch through a wall, but is only putting a single projectile at a time through it (assuming you are missing your meant target), may work out better for you, especially in an condo where there are neighbors close at hand.Don't forget, you want to kill and or stop the bad guy and not your next door neighbor. In case you decide against a tactical shotgun, stick with a handgun and use fragmented ammo. I am sticking with a Mossberg 500 Persuader.

If over-penetration is not a concern, get some thing like a bad ass Mossberg 500 Persuader 50521 6 Shot 12 ga loaded up with buckshot, that will handle any problem, 2 legged or 4 legged.

The law enforcement society dumped the use of #4 buckshot as a duty load and went back to 00 buck when we began discovering that #4 wasn’t giving the preferred penetration. Yes, for Alaskan security, 3- to 3-1/2-inch magnum rifled slugs, and a six to nine round magazine capacity sounds like an ideal combination.

When I bought my Mossberg 500 Persuader Tactical Shotgun, I ended up ordering it over the internet for much less. Many dealers in my vicinity wanted list price ... plus which did not set well with my budget plan. I purchased my Tactical Shotgun from Class 3 Weapons at a significant cost savings. Class 3 Weapons is at the moment promoting their Tactical Shotguns at an aggressive pricing. Various Tactical Shotgun models start at an incredibly economical price of $269.00 according to the the Class 3 Weapons website.

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