Quote Originally Posted by tony
And question on purchasing a Shotgun for home protection, how far are your neighbors from your house? You have to consider their safety as well, having a firearm that would clearly pentrate walls in other houses makes me nervous. I own a .40 Caliber but for home protection I'm probably going to get a 9mm for the reason I've stated.
neighbor's house is ~15feet? standard neighborhood distance

... and if this shotgun can shoot through that many walls etc and still keep its velocity, I'm buying myself another one ( I kid I kid ) but I would be surprised if the buckshot did maintain that much velocity through walls etc ( unless I shoot out through a window )

but I did look into things, there's another version of this with a 11-87 barrel, that can fire 3 1/2" Magnum shotgun shells. I figured that was overboard, so I stuck with the 1100.

Plus like someone said, don't miss. I would certainly hope I wouldn't miss with a shotgun... if it ever came to me having to pull the trigger that is.