Guess I'll have to get rid of my shotgun & get a better HD gun like a 380
Its called bird shot so freakin what. Do I hunt buck with 00buck shot? No.
What would happen to a dove or even a quail or duck if you shot it at 15 feet with an aimed load of #6. It would explode into a cloud of feathery slop. The term birdshot is only a non technical reference it does not mean this load is designed to strictly kill birds.
I really dont understand how anyone who shoots a 12 gauge could even question what would happen to a target at that close of a range. It is not a question of if it would be effective, its a statement that yes it is. You can argue for the sake of arguing a point, but youd still be wrong to think that this load in that proximity is anything less than devestating to a target.
Or a krink...
https://www.google.com/search?q=bir...w&biw=1269&bih=610&sei=vMqdT-v0CorbgQf529CHDw/QUOTE]
The search for "birdshot wounds" produces multiple images of people LIVING with horrific wounds. The search for "buckshot wounds" produces multiple autopsy images of cadavers with horrific wounds.
Here is a little factoid...
Fact...
In Bosnia, my #2 man in my Stack made entry into a Hostile Structure as he cut the room he was shot in his left thigh with both barrels from a 12 gauge firing birdshot from a distance of approx 5 feet. He only had BDUs on, no supplimental armor. It broke his femur to the point he now has an entire Ti replacement one. He killed his assailent and one other shooter in his sector of fire, before the room was secured. It did hamburger his leg in the region of the shot, but was unable to even penetrate far enough to nick the femoral...
I'll send L an email and ask him...Fact- you don't state what size of birdshot was used.
Fact- you don't state what size of birdshot was used.I'll send L an email and ask him...
Got L's reply back. They mike out between .100-.130...
So what size shot is that...
#7 shot is .10 cal and #4 shot is .13 cal.
Eight pages later and I think it's funny that a thread with "misconception" in the subject line is filled with so many misconceptions!
Jeremy's example is an interesting one because that's pretty close to the distance that a load of shot stops acting as a single mass and begins acting more like individual shot. Certainly by 10 feet or so, shot (of any size) tends to penetrate to a depth commensurate with its mass and sectional density; not as a single mass (like a slug).
Here's an article that may be of interest:
http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs10.htm
Edit: Another FAQ for consideration:
http://www.ar15.com/content/page.html?id=176