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Best Shotgun for Skeet/ Home Defense?

eranio — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:01:47 +0000

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 [...]

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Isn’t it important for the police and ME in a shooting death to know the load in the shotgun shell used.?

eranio — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:01:57 +0000

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 [...]

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What can be obtained easily that would best reflect the damage done by a shotgun impact on a human torso?

eranio — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:37:01 +0000

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 [...]

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