Shotty v. Carbine
Tam has some wise words on the topic. I’m likely to go with carbine and it’s not that I think shotties are bad. My shotty is too long. And, at casa de unc, I have a sooper seekrit area where I keep an AR-15 accessible within a few seconds but you’d never know it was there. And my shotty is definitely too long for that location.
October 10th, 2018 at 6:00 pm
The bottom line for me is that my wife can get hits with the carbine but won’t shoot the shotgun enough to get confident with it.
October 10th, 2018 at 9:50 pm
Real proficiency with the gauge is a lot harder to acquire and maintain, and generally requires teaching by someone who specializes in the topic. The proper “push-pull” is not intuitive at all.
October 11th, 2018 at 8:20 pm
The shift from shotguns to rifles in the US seems to be mainly the function of perception of how often cops barge into wrong homes. Rifles usually get through the armor, shotguns usually fail (though they make headshots slightly easier). The actual frequency of no-knocks may or may not warrant the switch-over, but the perception is shaping it.
October 12th, 2018 at 9:04 am
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October 12th, 2018 at 10:18 am
Well…. That’s a new one for me Oleg.
October 12th, 2018 at 11:02 am
@Oleg, holy shit, any cites? Hope not!
October 12th, 2018 at 11:11 pm
From informal conversation with people. The shift seemed to have mostly happened in the late 90s.
October 13th, 2018 at 10:52 am
Ah, well that time frame might help explain that particular suburban myth…
I was still a pretty active FFL in those mid-ban days and clearly recall quite a lot of reckless if understandable comments from customers about how they were ready for the jack-booted fed thugs coming for their banned hardware, utilizing said banned hardware itself.
Think maybe the meme got transposed to all popo raids in the midst of the verbal firestorms.
October 13th, 2018 at 9:06 pm
That was pretty much the way it went, I think.