VIDEO HERE (11:55 minutes)
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Thursday, August 26, 2021
Home Defense: Shotguns - Target Distance vs. Shot Pattern
Using a shotgun effectively requires that you know how it works in all scenarios. Clint Smith, President and Director of the world-class Thunder Ranch training center, shares his knowledge of the practical application of shotguns. Despite popular belief, shotguns should be treated as precision tools at close ranges. This drill will let you know what your gun's pattern looks like at various distances and, therefore, how precisely you need to aim at your intended target.
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ReplyDeleteI've never heard anything like about Thunder Ranch.
DeleteSources, please?
Ur full of shit dude. Ive known clint and heidi for over 20 yrs. he’s farther right than genghis khan!! Try answering a domestic dispute (which would never happen) at his home and then tell me he’s a gun control proponent. Bullshit.
DeleteJohn h
I also have personally been to thunder ranch. Great program. Great PATRIOTS.
DeleteDouble 'ought buckshot.
ReplyDeleteIf the POS is far enough away I have to worry about shot pattern, I'm unlikely to pull the trigger. If I do pull the trigger I won't be worried about shot pattern then either as the intention will be to hit center mass regardless.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid almost 50 years ago in the UK I probably did something similar without the safety "briefings " I fired at the side of a van from about 15 feet with a DB leftie stock to see the pattern and stepped back as pellets bounced around me, tried again allowing for the stock set-up as a right hander from a few feet back and then tried the same again from even further back. Pattern was a lot different from the video but I can't remember what I was firing, I do remember doing similar with my brothers home loads and being amazed at the difference in penetration to the shop bought crap. No hearing protection, no safety glasses, no bullshit attitudes to shotguns but a willingness to see how to improve what you hit, those were the days!
ReplyDeleteBuckshot, any flavor. Only way to go.
ReplyDeleteIn a coach gun. Heh.
DeleteI doubt it.
ReplyDeleteI bought a $hit load of 00 metric low recoil that is a tad shorter than 2 & 3/4" so I can get an extra round in the old 850 Wingmaster that has the open bore 18.5" barrel. I also know the shot patterns at 10', 20'. and 30'. It is almost a 3 foot spread at 30 feet. It has been the bedroom weapon for 25+ years. The main purpose is to get me to the gun safe to an AR pistol with a 11" barrel.
ReplyDeleteThe Wingmaster was my dad's bird gun that had a shot out barrel when I got it. I have a Stevens 311 DB that can answer any requirement of a shotgun. Old shotguns are the best shotguns.
Not being critical because I don't know your house layout or circumstances, but if you're using your shotgun to get yourself to your AR pistol, why don't you just have the AR pistol as your bedroom weapon and save yourself a step?
DeleteI have little friends hidden all throughout my home. Ohio Guy
DeleteAR Pistol is on main floor. The Bedrooms are upstairs. When I am not sleeping most of my time is in the workshop or main floor.
DeleteStand in a shooting position in the rooms you may defend, and measure from the muzzle to where an intruder might stand.
ReplyDeleteIn all the houses I have had, the longest distance was 23 feet.
In houses, I use 3" #1 buck as it packs tighter in 12 ga. Apartments, I used 3" #6 heavy squirrel loads, as they tested as highly destructive in the same room, but not very much after passing a couple of layers of drywall.
John in Indy
Save your neighbors please don't shoot 556 or 223 in a house in town. Have you ever seen how many layers of walls that stuff goes through? Shotguns are ideal for home defense. Just don't pass the intruder off by firing bird shot at them.
ReplyDeleteKeep yor KZ tite, then things get better!
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
Clint, shut the fuck up.
ReplyDeleteAnon, stfu.
DeleteClint is a national treasure. No PC crap, just facts and personal historical experience. I hope his languqge and manner pisses you off.
I delight in it.