emaroquin said:
The guys are trying to save you from learning why the hard way.
Go buy a few boxes of 3 inch magnum slugs, fill up your gun and set up 5 targets and shoot them as fast as you physically can and then get back to us. Extra points if you stay all within the vital area's and if you can do it in less than 4 seconds with the pistol grip.
emaroquin said:
Not in this part of the world!! While your threat is one guy, here the intruders may be 3, 4 or even 5, yes you have to be fast. Here houses are made with block and steel inside, or brick and steel, in my case walls are very thick so its kind of difficult that a shotgun could pass through the wall. But I want to buy slugs, so it can be more efective on the intruder.
I may have misunderstood, but just about anyone can shoot fast. But you gain nothing if you cannot place the shots accurately.
3 inch slugs will be slower to follow up with than say, reduced recoil or managed recoil 2 3/4 inch slugs or whatever you want to call it and you really don't lose any effective penetration while maintaining control by using them.
With or without a buttstock.
It's easy to sit back and say I want the shortest gun with the strongest most powerful load known to all of mankind, but most folks simply have enough physical limitations that if you intend to use 3 inch magnums within the confines of a building or dwelling, just do not make very much sense for NUMEROUS reasons.
And just for the record, it would be difficult for any one person to survive a shootout with 3 or 4 or 5 assailants, no matter what you are armed with or how good you think you are. Not to sound condescending, but that's just truth.
If you have 5 people firing handguns at you, combined, could probably put upwards of 60 to maybe 75 bullets in your general direction in a mere 5 seconds.
Just my thoughts on the matter.