[Knitebane]

And it was a win-win, because the burglar got away with two charges of fairly heavy bird shot in his backside

Tsk, tsk. Hunting goblins with a bird gun.

Unfortunately, neither Federal, Remington or Winchester make "goblin shot."

Until they do, my Mossberg 500 is loaded with #1 buckshot. And a couple of slugs in the stock sleeve for backup.

[AnAmericanMother]

Daddy had been shooting crows, hence the shotgun and the no. 6.

It was lying broken open beside him on the sofa with two shells in the receiver. He was just sitting there minding his own business reading the paper in his nightshirt when I screamed. Took him just a couple seconds to snatch up the shotgun, run out the living room door and around the corner where he intercepted Mr. Burglar just outside my window.

As Colonel Cooper (also the father of the term 'goblin') said in a slightly different context, a hit with a .22 is better than a loud miss with a .44 Mag . . . .

Mr. Burglar is just lucky that dad wasn't cleaning his .348 Winchester, we would have been attending a coroner's inquest (once they reassembled the burglar sufficiently to id him).