04-20-2009, 12:30 PM
JWFITZ, since your posting is directly below mine, I'm guessing you addressed what I wrote. If so, I'm confused as to why are you disagreeing with my recommendation of using a cylinder bore. I'm with you when you state that the pattern of a shotgun with a choke in a hallway (or anywhere else at close range) is only about 4 inches. That's why I suggested a cylinder bore as well as #4 Buck. We're talking about shooting people up close, not ducks in flight, and while I'm not versed on the advantage of using steel shot over lead, close range makes the issue somewhat irrelevant.
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Originally posted by JWFITZ
I disagree.
You'll miss. It may surprise you but the pattern of a shotgun with a choke in a hallway in your home is only about 4 inches, if that. People expect the big hollywood blast, where all you have to do is just point in a general direction and cut loose. It isn't true. Having shot doubles for years in Idaho you'd be surprised to know the barrels don't point in the direction the sight does. There's parallax built into the barrels and they're not for the novice shooter.
Get a quality autoloader and learn to shoot it. One that can shoot 3 inch mags and learn to feed as fast as you can shoot. Which, of course, all duck hunters can. Shoot steel BB shot. It will take you at least 10 boxes of shells to get both familiar and capable with the tool.
It's important to look at these tools in the same way one might a radial arm saw. Without hyperbole, or anything else. It's a tools for a job, and a tool hopefully one never uses. Right?