Does anyone continue to seriously question the value of low brass target loads at close range after watching that video?

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I'm firmly convinced that it can get me a rabbit for the pot or a squirrel. Maybe even a couple of doves. It's hell on soda cans a cookie pans. I am not impressed with it as a defensive load. Buckshot comes in cheap 25 round boxes at Walmart. I take some duct tape and reinforce the bottom of the box and away I go. I carry a box of 25 buck shot, a box of 25 low brass #6's, and a box of 15 slugs in the vehicle. I am prepared for subsistence survival to defense from predators.

I just remembered a story about why I don't (and maybe you shouldn't) use fine shot on serious things. So there was this raccoon ambling about during daylight hours a few years ago. Something was amiss and I decided to take him out. Not wanting to waste my precious magnum buckshot because he wasn't​ too big I loaded a #6. Whowee was he super pissed off when I shot him with that #6. He snarled and started to turn towards me right about the time the 3" magnum buckshot slammed home in the chamber. I immediately touched it off and sent him rolling three feet further away and he was dead when he stopped. So that's where I think back to whenever​ I get the urge to go easy on the problem pops in.

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Here's what Greg Ellifritz found (Greg is the Author of An Alternative Look at Handgun Stopping Power).

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In my study of defensive shootings, I collected data on nearly 200 shotgun shootings. When I analyzed the data to determine which rounds immediately incapacitated the person shot, I found some interesting results:

Birdshot (all types)- 17% of shots led to an immediate incapacitation

Buckshot (all types)- 54% of shots led to an immediate incapacitation

Rifled Slugs- 67% of shots led to an immediate incapacitation

All of the above results were from shootings with 12 gauge shotguns only.

Bird Shot for Self Defense and Some Stopping Power Statistics | Active Response Training

An Alternate Look at Handgun Stopping Power | Buckeye Firearms Association

147 grain HST if I'm not going to be using a proper long gun. If using a shotgun then all of the shells in it would be either 2.75" #1 or 00 buckshot or slugs.

Me. Nothing in Hickock45's video showed birdshot demonstrating adequate penetration. His video did demonstrate how awkward, slow, and inaccurate pistol-grip only shotguns are.

Challenge accepted.

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