Posted on 07/21/2011 12:33:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
If they are coming for you, take a few with you. ;)
That sadly, is the truth.
My parents grew up in the depression. They survived.
Of course civilization was more civil then. For one thing, there was more of a fear of God.
Now, with this generation of human animals devoid of conscience and raised with plenty, Road Warrior scenarios wouldn't surprise me, though I doubt we'll see much of. Mostly lots of pissing and moaning.
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They’d never make it this far in a vehicle. The Pike would be blocked by wrecks and bodies before they got 10 miles from Boston. If they got as far as my place, it would be on foot, unarmed, and dropping from thirst.
Don’t forget the recent law making it illegal to have a garden for food. All must bow before The Messiah and beg for bread.
Shotguns, to the best of my knowledge, are always smoothbore, but you can buy rifled barrels for them.
Or, you can buy shells loaded with rifled slugs.
But if you buy a rifled barrel, wouldn’t the rifling be ruined by firing shot through it?
Possibly.
That’s why you switch back to the smoothbore barrel before shooting shot.
It’s about a two-minute process, and can be done by hand on shotguns.
Also, it appears that most modern shotgun barrels have “choke tubes”, which change the barrel choke without changing the barrel.
Rifled choke tubes are available, and much cheaper than spare barrels, although they do require a device resembling a short screwdriver to change them. Again, the swap-out takes about a minute.
But either way, whether with a rifled choke tube or barrel, the chamber is still much too big to accommodate conventional bullets, and slugs have their own rifling. Is there an insert for the chamber?
I was born durring the last one and the lessons learned from my parents, who did very well in the last one, will get me through the next one.
“we would bite the bullet, default and let the chips fall where they may.”
Until those living on credit are wiped out the current state of decline will continmue well into the future.
Obama is following FDR’s destructive policys and will do nothing but guarntee long and painful destruction.
Not that I’m aware of ... if you want to shoot actual rifle ammunition through a shotgun, you’re out of luck.
So what do you shoot through the rifled barrel? Steel slugs and shot are out. Is it small enough to accomodate .50 caliber bullets?
I get the general Cabela inventory page. Can’t keep searching. It seems that the switch-off barrels and chokes have very limited ballistic advantages. People use shotguns for devastating, up-close stopping power, and people use rifles for accuracy at great distances. Slugs are a poor cousin to the Minie ball-shaped bullet. They’re heavy and have poor aerodynamics, and close up you have to aim them, which you don’t need to do with shot except very generally.
Try a general web search for “Hornady SST Sabot Slugs”.
Alternatively, this url may work:
http://www.hornady.com/store/12-ga-Slug-300-gr-FTX/
So from what I gather, this is a copper-jacketed, smooth-sided slug with a lead (?) core? And it’s tapered like a bullet? And it’s got a 6.7 inch drop after 200 feet? I suppose that’s as close as you can get to a bullet’s trajectory with a large shotgun chamber.
I suspect the drop is actually at 200 yards, not 200 feet.
Ultimately, shotguns are not generally built as strongly as rifles, and if you want rifle performance, you’re going to have to get a rifle.
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