GUNS Magazine Home Defense: Buckshot vs. Birdshot

Roy’s Insider Tips #800
August 2013

For home defense options, what’s more effective? Buckshot or birdshot? Roy Huntington, editor of American Handgunner, takes on this question after field testing 00 buck and #8 birdshot out of a Remington 870 at a close-range target.

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