Home defense ammo

['ol shooter]

I originally opted for a mix of 00 buck and slugs, both low recoil. I saw a program on the Outdoor Channel dealing with home defense, and saw that bird loads at home defense distances can be very lethal, and the added benefit is they won't blow big holes in your walls or furnishings. Looked kind of 6 of one, a half dozen of the other to me.

[radgokart]

Huh? I am not sure I see your reasoning here. Aside from the imaginary DA that everybody online thinks is going to go after them for their choice of ammunition, what is your idea about keeping the box and 5 rounds? Apart from using them to shoot the DA, which is hardly advisable, what purpose do they serve? If they have a dead bad guy, they likely have recovered cases and possibly the bullets. What good does it do you on top of that to have the extras still in the box? I am not trying to be cute here, I am genuinely curious.

-Mb

It was from a Massad Ayoob article. He advised to do this in case it was called into question that you were (falsely, of course) self loading “super ultra deadly" rounds. This way you could send the rounds to a lab for testing since you have some from the original factory batch/box.