I forgot to include a picture of our guide, Sunshine was the brains of the trip.

Awesome pic

Terry

I have a difference outlook on shotguns as a home defense weapon.  Yeah they'll get the job done extremely well with most ammunition but there's a down side to them.  If you're using shot you have the possibility of injuring an innocent person and on the flip side of that if you're using slugs you run the risk of over penetration and also possibly injuring an innocent person.  The thing that I don't think many people realize or consider is the fact that after the situation is done you're going to have to justify what you did.  Sure you could be, and hopefully are, justified in using deadly force however if you injure an innocent person your problems are just getting started and could have some extremely serious consequences.  It's going to start off with explaining why you did what you did to some police officer who might not know much about guns and might even have some ideas about you even before he lays eyes on you just because of what your choice of weapon was.  Besides that you're going getting sued, that's a guarantee,  you could end up being arrested, convicted, and spending time in jail.  And with some of the crazy decisions district attorneys and rulings judges make these days the odds of that happening today are even greater than they were five or even ten years ago.  Imagine sitting in court and have some bottom feeder lawyer who's suing you start showing the jury one of those little shotguns with the pistol grips and saying look at the weapon the defendant used, I bet the only time you saw something like this was in a movie when they used it to kill someone.  Or they start showing it off while they're cross examining you and asking you if it was your intent to kill the person.  The thing is lawyers have months and even years to pull apart and make arguments against a decision you had seconds to make, it happens every day in courtrooms across the country.  I'm not telling you not to buy it or use it if you have to, I'm just saying think about it before you're explaining some hard questions that may alter your life for God only knows how long on why you did what you did and why you used what you used.