I live out a ways in the boonies and no close neighbors and it’s only me and the wife so that determines my loading. Also good chance EVEN if we could call,(no cell service) LEO help is at best 20+ minuets.

With that said I used conventional 12 G 00 buck to start, do not see the need for anything exotic or smaller. As we have a chance of trouble with large 4 legged critters my full load out is 5 00 buck followed by 4 conventional slugs (Gun is a Mossie 590 that holds 9 rounds!) More of both kinds of loads available close in bandoleer.

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14 S&W Revs none with locks!