Decades ago, we lived in a community of townhouses, and there were some night time hot break ins.
Those stopped when a trap shooter stopped a couple of thugs with his trap gun. The lucky felons were the ones, who were DOA. The unlucky lived for a few days with a load of 7 1/2’s.
The good news, no neighbors living close by were harmed.
I taught Hunter Safety for MI for over 20 years and we would demonstrate what various guns would do cabbage, melons, etc.
They were ‘Wowed’ by what high powered rifles would do, but at the end we showed them a shotgun with 7 1/2 exploding a watermelon to the point it was vaporized. A cabbage becomes instant coleslaw.
I think the famous Essex boys murders were with large fowl loads...fours or sixes lead
Some local toughs in their Range Rovers trying to extort a pot smuggler who flew from Holland to eastern shore UK
They thought him and his partner to be soft upper class manor house dwellers with no capacity for violence
They thought wrong...my opinion is they did the world a favor...dead Chav robbers .
One of the killers just got early release....
Graphic pics below.....bird shot close range....effective must say