I have my grandfather’s single-barrel, breach-break, 10ga (we can’t make-out the mfgr’s name on the barrel or buttplate) and that bad boy has got a recoil not to be believed. He used it to put food on Dad’s Family’s table during the 30s. It’s a freaking cannon, but a single shot.
I have a Remy Police Tactical 870 Pump and a Remy 1187 Police Tactical Autoloader, both with special buttstock pads, which I’d probably choose over that 10ga. It’s in my dbl-door gunsafe, restored, just as a keepsake.
The select-fire/suppressed AR-15’s w/ 60-rnd SureFire mags lays down some serious firepower and would decimate a pack of dogs in short order.
10ga? 12ga? AR-15? AR-10? Tough choice...
It’s not the dogs’ fault. They may very well be the most civilized creatures left in that town.