The importance of using the proper shotgun shells.
Good ending, but luck and bad marksmanship helped.
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Hendersonville business owner and his wife survived a gun battle with an armed man inside the couple’s collectible shop early Wednesday morning. As for the suspect, he’s facing multiple charges — including attempted homicide — following his release from the hospital.
….Then, just moments later, Bryan can be seen coming back to the door, pulling what law enforcement described as a 9mm from his backpack, ducking back through the broken glass into the store, and rushing toward the back of the shop.
“He’s looking to do harm at that point,” Ryan stated.
By this point, the co-owner of The Cache, Roger McCandless, was ready and armed with a shotgun loaded with birdshot.
From multiple cameras inside the store, you hear the gun battle as McCandless fired one round from his shotgun. Police said the birdshot, fired from about 30 feet away, struck Bryan in the stomach.
Video shows Bryan quickly retreating, but while doing so, officials said he opened fire. News 2 counted as many as many as five rounds fired by the suspect.
Man breaks into store, gets injured in shootout with owner: Hendersonville, TN police
I am not a shotgun expert by any means of the imagination, but I heed the advice of more knowledgeable people: Birdshot is for birds, small rodents and training. Bipedal predators (AKA Dangerous criminals) require at a minimum buckshot, preferably in repeated pairs.
After being shot, the critter was able to return fire and it is only because he sucked at it nobody else got hurt.
And then, there is Mr. Smith.
Thus endedth the lesson
Well said.
Only thing I can add is a concern about the nearness of innocents and the constructions in-between. My first apartment after graduation was in a --questionable-- neighborhood. There were a lot of neighbors within spittin' distance, separated only by thin walls. So, the Mossy splattergun was loaded with birdshot.
Now that the wife and I live on several acres in a house with filled concrete cinder block walls, my self-defense choices are a little more... exuberant.
So if birdshot is for birds ... and buckshot is for deer ...
I'll have to look for perpshot on my next visit to Cabela's.