Now people that know noting about firearms are going to start loading their shotgun tubes so they fire birdshot buckshot birdshot buckshot buckshot buckshot.
If you haven't seen his latest Netflix comedy special, that is how he claims to load his pump action shottie. (It's a good show, watch it, and don't believe what the whiner PC crowd say about it being bad and everything.)
Claims. It was part of a comedy skit, he might have been doing all that for entertainment purposes.
In the skit, the birdshot is to pepper the opiod addict intruder stealing from his change bowl. The buckshot is in case he turns toward Dave instead of running away. Second birdshot is in case he has a friend, and buckshot if THAT guy doesn't get the hint, then buckshot all day.
You know, the ol' Dutch Load. Candy cane. Like dudes that go every other in their pistol, Holler Point to stop a bad guy, Full Metal Jacket to achieve penetration.
Not usually the recommended thing to do any more by serious firearms trainers, if it ever was.
But now, MILLIONS of people have been explained it by Dave Chappelle, and they are going to remember it. And when they get a shotgun to protect their houses... a whole lotta folks are gonna go birdshot buckshot birdshot buckshot buckshot buckshot. For no other reason except that a stand up comic made it sound reasonable.
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The reason he bought a shotgun in the first place? When he bought a house and land in the country near Dayton Ohio he noticed a guy walking on HIS land with a slung rifle. I dunno what the hunting regs are in Ohio, but I am guessing this interloper was a hunter hunting or scouting for a hunt, and Dave's acreage wasn't yet posted to DNR specification that there was to be No Hunting on that land, so scouting it was perfectly legal. Check your own areas laws, it may be legal where you live too. But I am just guessing, like I said.
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There is a certain logic to loading a home-defense shotgun with both rounds of buckshot and slugs. For instance, on a five round gun, the first three into the magazine tube being loaded would be slugs and the other two 00 buckshot. Thus the buckshot would be the first two rounds fired if need be. The reasoning is you are in close quarters and may need to get off a shot or shots at multiple attackers quite rapidly. While the pellet spread may not be very large, the faxt is that 9 pellets of 00 buckshot are spread apart somewhat and you stand more of a chance of hitting your assailant in such a situation with at least one of those pellets should your shot not be as on target as you had hoped. Under the stress of a real life or death situation there are many often unavoidable things that might make your aim be off a bit as the situation unfolds. No matter how good you are on paper or clays or steel, you are not facing an armed assailant and death at the range. By the time you fire off two rounds of 00 buckshot, I would hope you have stopped your attacker but if not then a better aimed shot with a slug may do the trick and by then, if not from the very beginning, you have made it to cover and can take a better aimed shot. This was one method taught to me many years ago on how to load during an operation that was to include a entry in a high risk situation. Even back then, about 30-32 years ago, this method had its detractors who believed it was better to load all buckshot or all slugs but it also had its supporters.
As far as loading birdshot, it was sometimes recommended for crowd control and for home defense back then but was frowned upon by most as being less than effective enough with regard to stopping potential. In the case of crowd control, a method taught was to load with 9 birdshot and in the event a crowd charged you, you would aim at the ground in front of the crowd at about a 20 degree angle (if memory serves me correctly) and fire with the hope that the ricocheting pellets would hit the on-comers in their feet and lower legs and bring them to a stop. I never much liked that idea and thankfully never had to test whether or not it would have worked.
As far as home defense went, it was suggested to use birdshot to avoid penetrating walls whereby you might injure a family member in another room. Probably would be just about right in old time plaster over lattice work walls but probably would not do not much good in that regard with today's wallboard/sheetrock. A blast from birdshot would also be much less effective against an assailant wearing body armor than would be 00 buckshot or a once ounce slug. Even though the buckshot and slug would probably be defeated by the body armor as far as penetration goes, the truth of the matter is that soft body armor would indent sufficiently, quite possibly up to a few inches, and cause broken bones or a traumatic shock type wound with great pain that might stop if not incapacitate an assailant. You are not likely to get anywhere near the same effect from birdshot.
Regardless of all tat, I intend to watch Chapelle's show based on your recommendation!In addition to tat, you reminded me, it is about time I get my 870 out of the case and set it up loaded and ready in my bedroom now that I am in my new apartment in TX.
Thanks.
All the best,
Glenn B
Kitchen sinks only 24/7
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