"Butch Ammon" wrote in message
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Perhaps he should skip the handgun and carry what most gun "experts"
agree
is the best thing for defense: a 12 gauge. If he has to list a purpose
for
the thing, he can list duck hunting. Things could still get sticky if the
state doesn't allow him to have it out of the house if it's not duck
season.
But, how often is his boat going to get tossed by the police???


Good suggestion. I know the lethal destruction and doom that a Remington
870
12GA can do with #00 Buckshot! I own one! One day at the local skeet
range
at the wildlife game area, someone left a gallon milk jug sitting on a
tree
stump. It was already peppered with shotgun shot. So anyway, I couldn't
resist the temptation, so I got a #00 buckshot round out of my case and
chambered it. Taking careful aim, I pulled the trigger and two things
happend:

1) I almost broke my shoulder from the 3" magnum #00 buckshot shell!
....Ouch!

2) I totally destroyed the gallon milk jug. It blew into pieces all over
the
place! (Yes, I picked up the remains of the jug and pieces of plastic and
threw them in the trash).

They say that for a shotgun, #00 buckshot is the equivalent of 8 or 9
rounds of
9mm bullets all hitting at the same time. The absolute, lethal,
be-all-to-end-all, firepower.

Butch Ammon

Not only that, but at least in theory, racking a shotgun eliminates one
question that needs to be dealt with at the split second when you're
wondering if you're really going to have to pull the trigger: Anyone who
hears the sound of a shotgun being loaded, and still attacks, is clearly out
of their mind.