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<blockquote data-quote="D V US" data-source="post: 2884056" data-attributes="member: 34558"><p>I don't live in an apartment but I do have a house with three bedrooms and my children in them. My home defense choice is a shotgun w/18" barrel and mag extension, loaded with #6 birdshot through a cylinder bore choke. Does choke make a difference in home defense? I'm betting my children's lives on it! At 12 feet (the distance from one wall in my bedroom to another) the shot pattern pretty much covers the center mass of an average human male. In case of a miss or off center shot, the sheetrock can easily absorb the energy spread of the shot pattern and reduce it below lethal levels, though not enough to completely eliminate injury. A full choke at those same distances will pattern to about 2" with a couple "flyers". You might as well use slugs because the sheetrock walls will provide about as much resistance as a piece of cardboard to that dense of a shot pattern.</p><p>Long story short, shotgun + birdshot + proper choke selection = safest defense option for the location.</p><p></p><p>Or use the beanbag shotshells. They will knock the bad intentions outta anybody.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D V US, post: 2884056, member: 34558"] I don't live in an apartment but I do have a house with three bedrooms and my children in them. My home defense choice is a shotgun w/18" barrel and mag extension, loaded with #6 birdshot through a cylinder bore choke. Does choke make a difference in home defense? I'm betting my children's lives on it! At 12 feet (the distance from one wall in my bedroom to another) the shot pattern pretty much covers the center mass of an average human male. In case of a miss or off center shot, the sheetrock can easily absorb the energy spread of the shot pattern and reduce it below lethal levels, though not enough to completely eliminate injury. A full choke at those same distances will pattern to about 2" with a couple "flyers". You might as well use slugs because the sheetrock walls will provide about as much resistance as a piece of cardboard to that dense of a shot pattern. Long story short, shotgun + birdshot + proper choke selection = safest defense option for the location. Or use the beanbag shotshells. They will knock the bad intentions outta anybody. [/QUOTE]
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