rivercountry wrote:If you’re going to use a shotgun inside your home most definitely use bird shot some will disagree but it will stop over penetration. A lot of tactical teams are going to this for dynamic entries it reduces the likely hood of wounding someone in another room. Most gunfire exchanges inside homes will be very up close and personal and you can imagine what 2 oz of lead will do to the body at close range. High velocity 3 inch #5’s turkey loads or Heavyshot are the most ideal. Even if the bad guy lives and makes it to the hospital there want be a lot a surgeon can do for them if they are hit center mass (just too much shrapnel). This was recommendation that came from a trauma surgeon that was assigned to a Swat Team in a very large city on the east coast.
Great to see someone else advocating birdshot for inside the home. I've hunted for the better part of 55 years and seen what birdshot will do at 5-20 feet. You're going to put a 1 inch hole pretty deep into someone at that range. I showed one of my grandsons the other day and took my 16 gauge with 7 1/2 shot and put a hole clean through a 2x4 at about 8 feet. That is going to make one heck of a mess if the person would survive. It's not going to be fun for a surgeon to dig out 400 lead pellets if the person does make it to the ER.