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You say this, yet it is belied by actual testing. I'm not disputing that a meth'd out burglar can survive a few incorrectly-placed shots of any caliber (probably not BMG...), but that doesn't really prove one thing or another. Too many people in this type of discussion assume that birdshot at 20 meters = birdshot at 5 meters. That's largely true for 9mm, 5.56, 300BO, or even a slug. It's not remotely true for shot. Shattering the rib cage and embedding in the heart is going to stop a crack head. But like you said: Paul (RIP) also goes over using turkey loads in another video. Again, making the determination that you'd rather have longer range, or a different weapon to wield, all valid decisions. But that's different than saying birdshot doesn't work very well. It doesn't work as well, but it also is the only option that meaningfully reduces the chance of collateral damage from a stray shot, and effectively eliminates the possibility of shooting through the burglar/rapist and still poking a hole in a loved one. That's probably going to be fine if you live in Texas. But you don't want this mindset in trial. If you've never been on the other end of a talented prosecutor, you might not appreciate how much of your own words will form the basis for your conviction. It's not a pleasant experience. And you won't find and attorney who would suggest you say that in trial. I'm going to requote you to hammer in the point: To everyone else, don't ever say this. Ever. Repeat after me: I was trying to stop the threat. In the state of Texas you can use deadly force to stop someone from stealing your property, even if they are fleeing. Consider the jury sentiment in this scenario as opposed to shooting a 6"5' meth head with a history of rape convictions. Were you trying to kill the 16 year old you pointed your gun at, or just protect your property? Being prepared to kill is very different than trying to kill. Anyone planning to use a gun to defend themselves, their friends, or their property should be listening to guys like Andrew Branca to understand these distinctions. No matter how solid your case, your fate is in the hands of a government attorney and 12 Americans who were probably too dumb to get out of jury duty. Start thinking, acting, and preparing accordingly. None of this means aim for their leg or any other such nonsense. But we don't live in the wild west anymore, and there are people who would rather you and your family be raped and killed than to have a "victim" of the system get shot to death in your home. Ignore this at your peril. I'm not trying to be in SOCOM. I'm trying to defend my family and prevail at the inevitable criminal or civil trial. That's it. The ballistics are clear that in close quarters, birdshot will absolutely ruin a perp. And finally, the benefit of bird shot is when you, the defender, decide that the concern for inadvertently penetrating a wall and killing a kid is sufficient to override the desire for military-level mortality rates or capacity. I do not consider the possibility of multiple hardened targets invading my home to be realistic enough to justify making my primary home defense weapon a rifle. The good news is that if I hear the thump and I see multiple intruders on the cameras, I can reach 6 inches to the left and suddenly .300BLK has entered the chat. Or just switch tubes to buckshot. Great dialog, like I said I love hearing other people's calculus.

As a non-member of the SEC faith, I think there are SEC teams (Georgia and Tennessee) that have a far better argument than a team like Miami. Miami, who squeaked out a 4 pt win over VT, a 1 PT win over Cal, and who lost to GT. I'd say Miami is equivalent to 8-3 SC. SC's 3 loses were to Bama, LSU, and Miss. Two of those loses were by 3 pts or less.

Apologies for the shitty picture but if you’re in the market for a PCC and you’re open to different cartridges, I love my Ruger 5.7 carbine. Bought it on an impulse buy post-deployment; super fun to shoot. Almost no recoil, very accurate, fairly lightweight, comes with a threaded barrel, and it uses the same magazines as the Ruger 5.7mm pistol (I own one of those as well though I don’t like it nearly as much). I put a cheap red dot on top of it and it holds tight groups out to 100 yards with training loads.

Can't agree with this. Inside of 30ft (reasonable assumption if you're shooting inside the home) birdshot is quite fatal, especially 12 gauge. Out to 75ft it's really going to fuck up your day, but much, much less reliable. With training and practice, absolutely agree. But I've found overwhelmingly that shotguns are more approachable, especially for women, even though I consider an AR personally simpler. Recoil however is a function of weight, and something small like the Rattler, even as heavy as it is for the length, has a lot more kick than an M4 with a 16" barrel. The.410 recoil is also very reduced while still being a fuck-you-up machine at close range. Personally the 12G recoil isn't an issue for me, but for my wife it's a huge difference. But like I said, to each their own. This is my concern, and it's been shown in gel testing. Problem is, gel testing just isn't as transferable to actual flesh and bone testing, especially at the fringe. I'd wanna see some actual testing on pig corpses (or living pigs) to know that a specific subsonic 300 out of my 6.75" barrel will actually expand. 147 grain 9mm, however, will perform as expected out of the pistol-like barrel of a PCC, and will be pleasantly quiet with a can on it. It'll still go through drywall if you miss, but you don't have to worry about it zipping through the bad guy and the wall behind him like an unexpanded rifle round. But there's also a ton of research showing that the penetration of the different calibers ends up being the same if the rounds expand correctly. Similarly, the belief that 5.56 won't go through much drywall because the bullet is so fast it breaks apart isn't supported by testing. But there is one round that is meaningfully slowed by drywall... Birdshot. I think the conversation surrounding shoot to kill, shoot to neutralize, and shoot-to-disarm is not particularly clear in a lot of gun owners' minds. The number of people with punisher logos or "you're fucked" etched in the dust cover supports this... Obviously shoot to disarm is retarded, so we'll leave that to Joe Biden. But in home defense I am not shooting to kill. I am shooting to neutralize. They look the same because in isolation I'm using the same ammunition and aiming at the same body parts for both, the only difference is there's only one way to be dead and several ways to be neutralized, and I'm fine with any of those ways to be neutralized. And yes, birdshot is absolutely less likely to neutralize than 556, or buckshot, or pretty much everything else. But if I can pick a round that will still have a high probability of neutralizing the intruder, while reducing the likelihood of collateral damage, that's a trade-off I'm interested in researching further. Again, I'm going to aim the gun at the exact same body parts of the intruder, and I'm perfectly comfortable if death is the resultant means of neutralization, but especially considering that the house I'm building uses both slightly thicker drywall and cavity insulation in the interior walls of the bedrooms, I will have a setup where where bird shot absolutely will penetrate less than any other round, while still making disgusting bloody holes in the bad guy. Again, many variables, but I think bird shot is dismissed too readily for the specific scenario of family defense in an American-built home. Also, I like that racking a shotgun signals to someone that I don't actually want to shoot that they should announce themselves immediately. It's more likely the intruder isn't an intruder at all where I live in Texas suburbia.

That is the hand-waving they will use to get a three loss Alabama team in. When you throw the non-conference argument on the table you overlook the fact that Alabama lost to Vanderbilt. When you peel the onion back you find out the conference losses should be pulling them down as a whole. Georgia lost to a now three loss Alabama and Ole Miss who got punked by at the time what was a very mediocre Gator team. The rankings of the SEC teams has been artificially high because well...$.

2.5 years later, it appears they have quietly walked away from this idea. .

One downside of 300BO is round expansion if you're going the suppressed subsonic route. You need to buy a high quality round or shoot normal supersonic speeds or you risk it not opening up. I've shot a pig with a suppressed subsonic 300BO, heard the nice thwack indicating a good hit, only to watch the pig trot away like nothing happened. My mind was blown until I looked more into that round afterwards and found it was notorious for not opening up at subsonic speeds. I'm sure the pig died, but not even close to recoverable with no blood trail in a swamp. If that were some dude that broke into my house on drugs, he'd require many more rounds to stop him. I had that gun as a backup home defense gun and swapped out the ammo for full speed rounds after that. I also had worried about rounds missing or going straight through a bad guy into my kids rooms, but decided after that I would just have to keep my home's geometry in mind if I woke up to a noise in the middle of the night. Might be easier said than done in some houses depending on the layout. Edit to add: depending on the shotgun, I've had nearly as many feed/ejection/misc problems with shotguns as I have with a well maintained AR. So don't let the 'ARs are more difficult to operate' though keep you from using one as a home defense gun. I think a good AR is absolutely the best home defense gun you could get. Few bad guys will break into a possibly occupied house by themselves unless they're really high. Then you either have someone that will take many rounds to put down or multiple bad guys to deal with. Either way I want more rounds available than most shotguns offer.

This is how we know you’re delusional in a basement somewhere. Collective defense against Russia is the main reason NATO exists. Having them join would be inviting the fox to guard the henhouse; they would be able to obstruct anything they want, just like they do on the UN Security Council. Do you get paid for this nonsense?

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You missed the majority of his.