We had a shooting a while back at the local Sheriff's office. The nut case was of regular build and was shot in the gut around his navel region. The tactical shotgun used as a Mossberg 590BW 590A1. The Mossberg Special Purpose 590BW 590A1 tactical shot gun was loaded with 8 pellets.

This load, by the way is superb, quite likely the very best law enforcement loads, and one of the tightest patterning loads I have ever shot in any shotgun. It improves the safe usage of heavy gauge buckshot well out to 30 yards, and is great for headshots at seven to 10 yards, or a little further out in enhanced cylinder choke barrels. The 8 pellet load is really pretty good and has a very tight group. The round is perfect for head shots or shots out to 30 yards. It can be improved much more if you employ a choke.

Anyway all eight pellets blew through the suspect’s intestines and landed in the dirt on the other side of him. He quit his terrifying activities but did not expire. This means that if you hit an offender dead on with 00 buckshot, even with a lower velocity reduced recoil load, the pellets can and do punch right out the back, endangering others.

Don't forget, the load is called “buckshot” since it was originally used for killing huge animals, like buck deer, and in places like Africa sometimes tiger. It is powerful stuff. Legendary in terms of its killing and stopping power, buckshot is the shotgun round that people fear the most. Buckshot is for giant creatures so for sure, it will do a number on people.

Most criminals are too ignorant to understand that they face an equal amount of damage, maybe even more, due to shredding effect of all those little pellets from a close range load of bird shot as they do from the 00. However, don’t be tricked. These loads can and definately will punch all the way through drywall at close range. Remember, they just distribute one inch per yard, and at close range it is a lot like getting hit with a single, solid projectile. The bad guy is too brainless to recognize the damage buckshot is able to do.

If you have overpenetration worries, you really should closely analyze whether a shotgun is the best gun to pick. A lower powered handgun, which can still punch through a wall, but is only putting a single projectile at a time through it (assuming you are missing your intended target), may work out better for you, especially in an house where there are neighbors close at hand.Bear in mind, you want to eliminate and or stop the bad guy and not your next door neighbor. Even so, you should limit your pistol ammo selection to pre-fragmented ammo. I am sticking with a Mossberg 590BW 590A1 Blackwater Series 51772 12 ga 9 shot 12 ga.

For standard household and premises security, where over-penetration is not a important issue, buckshot of several kinds and sizings is possibly the most suitable option, not merely for two-legged potential predators, but for huge four-legged predators at close range as well. Those trap and skeet loads run out of steam pretty quick in terms of performance over distance.

The law enforcement community dumped the use of #4 buckshot as a duty load and went back to 00 buck when we began determining that #4 wasn’t giving the preferred penetration. Rifled slugs are mostly to be avoided unless you need the longer range and penetration a rifled slug affords, or if your home is somewhere like Africa, where your four legged predator issue involves massive animals like bear, instead of the coyote of the Midwest.

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