re: Shotgun for home defense, you still need to aim!.

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Nah. The only ammo worth using for home defense in a shotgun is buckshot (birdshot is stupid) and that is certainly more dangerous through sheetrock than a rifle round.

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This is where being prepared and knowing your house inside and out comes into play. Knowing exactly how your gun patterns with a certain shell at certain distances, knowing which walls no one can be behind, knowing anything else that might come into play. I've patterned 00 Buckshot through mine at 5, 10, and 15 yards, the longest shot possible in my house. At 5 and 10 there is one big ugly hole. At 15 there were a couple of flier pellets occasionally, but mostly still a tight pattern. You definitely have to aim. They also went through about 3-4 sheets of drywall. I had two on a stud, about 5 feet of space, then two more on a stud, to imitate how it is actually hung in a house. I wouldn't want to be on the other side of two walls with it being shot.