Originally Posted by RockChucker30
I've read a couple of posts now that say a 12 guage slug isn't good protection....can someone explain why to me? Just thinking about it it seems like a big heavy slow moving slug would be a good stopper. I can't figure out why not, so hopefully someone will chime in and help educate me.


Originally Posted by APDDSN0864
RC,
Foster type slugs (hollow-base) are not good. They have a thin skirt, are soft lead to conform to even heavily choked shotguns, and are not very accurate.
Brenneke's ARE good. The are like a giant, stabilzed wadcutter travelling at 1200fps or so.
In my experience, they WAY over-penetrate! smile

Ed


This bear,

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through the shoulder area, roughly broadside; breaking no major bones...

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stopped this "over-penetrator" in the muscle of the offside shoulder. Distance was 30-something yards. I'll leave it to others to decide where it falls on the scale of "poor to adequate to excellent". (Two finishers from a 16" carbine 45 Colt penetrated 30-some inches and exited.)

Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.