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.
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