I’m looking to get a shotgun for skeet shooting and home defense. (Don’t plan on hunting). I’m looking at a Mossberg 590 12 gauge. One of my big questions is what’s the diff for barrel length, I’ve heard shorter is better for defense. It seemed to me longer is better for distance but then I heard that the barrel length doesn’t really affect the ballistics that much when you skeet shooting?

Advice on make/model/barrel length?

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Wouldn’t it be an important piece of information in a shooting death, for the police and the ME to know the size of the load used to kill the victim with a 12 ga shotgun during the investigation to make a ruling on the manner of death? Wouldn’t it matter if it was birdshot or buckshot? I read a story where the police investigators and the ME never even removed the shell casing that inflicted the fatal shot from the shot gun. The size of the load in a shotgun shell is on the side of the casing. How do they determine anything with out even knowing the size of the shot used? Do they just guess? No autopsy or ballistics test were performed not even a toxicology was done. And there were two shots fired and they left the first shell casing lying on the ground isn’t that also evidence? It was a very curious story to me I just wanted to know what the proceedure would be in a case like that, when no witnesses were present. Shouldn’t it be fully investigated?

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I am doing a ballistics presentation on 6 different shells ranging from target load to buckshot, I will fire them each throught the same shotgun at a target and I need to find a target that can reflect the diffrence in damage done by each. I had origionally planned on using modeling clay but now a week from the project due date the person that was going to supply me with the needed torso sized block (150lbs worth) no longer carries it. Does anyone have an idea of something that I can use for 8 different tests and costs less than total? I have roughly 3 days to aquire it if I am to do the testing in time for the presentation. I have looked into plywood but each impact would be just one big-*ss hole, I need each individual pellet to be reflected. Does anyone have any ideas?

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