Guy told me "Shotguns are great for home defense because you don't have to aim one." He clearly has never fired a shotgun.
I hate it in a movie when someone fires a shotgun from a few yards away and multiple bad guys go flying, or a whole wall is peppered with pellet squibs. If someone is actually INSIDE your house, you have to point it directly at him. He's too close for a spread to "catch him".
On the other hand, a shotgun has the major advantage that it won't penetrate your wall and hit your neighbor (unless you use buckshot - and even then you're better off than if you'd fired a rifle). Plus the shotgun is purely lethal to the loser who invaded your house, ensuring he won't carry on his foul deeds.
Look at the table below. Even with a cylinder bore, a guy 10 yards away is only a 19" spread. You need to aim shotguns. When I went for my Rifle & Shotgun Shooting merit badge in Scouts I did okay with rifles but I think out of like 20 clay pigeons I only hit 1 with a shotgun. It was tough.
I am so proud to have had a part in bringing Lovecraft out of obscurity into mass awareness.
In 1997 I attended the Portland Lovecraft film festival, and they gave me a little statue of Lovecraft for, I guess "greatness in Yog-Sothothery".
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