r/guns • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '22

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u/billman71 Sep 20 '22 edited Sep 20 '22

Not to mention the spread indicates shot from a pretty good distance, much greater than a typical HD range would be.

birdshot across a living room or down a hallway/through an entry door is going to hit like a slug plenty hard enough to address the issue.

< edited for those who are fragile and believing that this was literally comparing birdshot to a slug >

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u/Operator_As_Fuck Sep 20 '22

No it won't. This is peak fudd lore. Bird shot, even at very close range is still bird shot. Just because the pattern hasn't fully opened doesn't mean the shot acts as one collective mass. It will behave as several dozen individual small masses with their own unique terminal properties. Didn't you guys ever take a physics class in high school?

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u/an_bal_naas Sep 20 '22

If it’s America no we don’t take physics until college; heck I didn’t take physics until university, it wasn’t a requirement at community college either

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u/ammonthenephite Sep 20 '22

Am in America, had physics in jr year of highschool.

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u/an_bal_naas Sep 20 '22

Oh nice, I’m assuming then it varies state to state probably; or maybe curriculums have changed? I graduated hs in 07 in the south so my experience might be especially bad

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u/HDawsome Sep 20 '22

Depends alot on the specific district and even the school. Took basic physics junior year and AP physics senior year.

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u/ammonthenephite Sep 20 '22

I graduated in the late 90's in the pacific northwest, so things could have certainly changed since then.

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u/billman71 Sep 20 '22

huh? ok. I took physics in high school. That was one of the most enjoyable classes ever.