ORIGINAL: skin290
ORIGINAL: speyrjb
The the ranges you are dealing with inside your home, a turkey load would jerk the spine out of the intruder and deposit it on the nearest wall!
I use an old mosberg 12g with 18" barrell and super full choke with turkey loads myself. If you say that won't penetrate or incapacitate then I say you are smoking something.
I shot a hog with a turkey load at about 30 feet one time in the head and it blew his head open! If it will do that to a hog then it definately will to a soft human!
Do you still think a 12 guage will blow a person of their feet if shot with one, like the movies show you?
Do the math on how much energy a 3" mag 12 ga max load with 2x4 shot traveling at 1500 fps will have at 15 feet.
I swear, people on this site are so quick to call you wrong if your opinion does not match thier opinion.
But this is not opinion...this is fact a turkey load will transfer more energy than a slug because a slug will exit, thus not transfer all of it's energy to the target. A turkey load on the other hand would probably not exit completely therefore transfering more energy to the target. Plus the energy transfer is over a larger surface.