• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    My now-legal sawed-off shotgun loaded with cheap #8 birdshot would like a word with that drone.

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      4 hours ago

      You better be good at hitting an erratically-moving high-speed target then, because if you miss (or even hit but after its momentum will carry it into blast radius of you) then you’re dead anyway.

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        3 hours ago

        Sawed-off shotguns are stupid because the immediate spread is ridiculously wide and it the shot loses velocity very quickly (and never had time to combust all the propellant for initial speed!). Drones are about all they are good for. :)

        Going to test the spread at camp Saturday. Bet money it’s 4-5 feet at 35, basically a short-range blast cone of weak, slow pellets. A 30" barrel is 4-5 inches at that distance, a very different thing!

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        1 hour ago

        How did you get a picture of me?! I’m calling white people security!

        “911, what’s your emergency?”

        “This fucker on lemmy posted a picture of me! SWAT 'em!”