Subject: Re: [Homestead] Shotgun size for homestead
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:40:02 EST
> Does everyone here agree with Gene that a 410 is only good for sparrows?
Bev, if you have an intruder and, God forbid, you have to resort to a
firearm, shooting them with the 410 is just going to make them mad.
Don't discount the 12 ga. so quickly. Two factors will affect the recoil, at
least two:
The mass of the gun. The heavier the gun, the less the recoil. A very light
English fowling piece is like setting off a shotgun shell in your fingers.
It is ALL recoil. But a medium heavy pump such as a Remington or Winchester
absorbs the recoil as inertia agaisnt its mass and so the recoil is much
less.
A very light 20 ga. will recoil more sharply against your shoulder than a
heavy 12 ga. will.
The load of the shell. You don't necessarily need 3" magnum loaded Howitzer
rounds on the homestead. For most purposes very light 2 3/4" target loads
and
game loads do fine. You can keep some heathen heavy loaded buckshot around
just in case. Better kicked on you ass by the recoil than go into a
situation
under armed. But the need for heavy ammuntion is somewhere between rarely
and
never.