Shotgun or AR-15?

[Danny]

Neat little write up with interesting photos. I was completely surprised with the 45lc. I expected all the above results on the .410 stuff. I have done several tests of my own with all shotgun loads.

OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES AND EVERYBODY HAS ONE!

Racking a shotgun is the worst home deterent in my opinion. I have said it before and I will say it again. If your in my home, I will already have my weapon loaded and be in defense posture. I am not going to rack my slide and let the bad guy know where I am. It may scare the unexpecting; however, if the intruder is planning on killing now he knows where your at and you no longer have the element of surprise.

If I wanted to scare an attacker I would get a dog. If I wanted to kill an attacker I would get training on how to kill an attacker. While you can be effective and kill most anything with a small caliber weapon, training is what will keep you alive and in the fight!

On a side note danny. I am working on acquiring some more silhouttes for our training up in the mountains. I am also working on getting a hold of a buddy who has a junk yard with some old trailers in it to do some MOUT scenarios.

Dont forget racking the shotgun as a scare tactic in addition to the allready above listed tactical disadvantages you are also either throwing a perfectly good shell on the ground or not storing your weapon with its maximum capacity loaded. Both of which are a bad thing IMO.

re:side note
Sounds awesome. I got a small roll of silhouettes, ill try and get my hands on some more.

[Truegiant]

I am not talking about the paper targets. I am talking about the hard back plastic silhouttes to mount the paper targets to. They work great on some string/stick to setup shooting lanes.