Pete, I don't doubt your word one bit, but help me understand what you are saying.Pete44ru wrote:
I/ME/PERSONALLY, had an AD with a 12ga birdshot load of #6's inside my home in 1967, after I returned home from a local hunting trip.
No "theory", no "tests", no "if's" -
Just an errant shotload that sailed over the head of my nearby infant son , and through TWO interior walls/partitions ( this, in a ca.1900 house that had walls constructed of full-sized 2x4's, with wood lathe and horsehair plaster on both sides of both partitions).
Do you mean to tell us that aa load of #6 shot penetrated both sides of a wall, crossed a room and then penetrated both sides of another wall before crossing another room and embedding itself in an exterior wall?
Or are you saying it penetrated both sides of an interior wall crossed the room and embedded itself in an exterior wall?
Which was it?
I'd also like to know how close to the wall was the muzzle when you had your ND? Was the muzzle against the wall or near the wall at the moment of discharge? Or were you across the room from the penetrated wall?
There is a lot of difference between penetrating a plaster wall at near contact distance and penetrating deep enough to incapacitate a bad guy at 5 to 10 yards away.
I'm glad that you ND resulted in nothing that couldn't be fixed with clean underwear, a vacuum cleaner and some drywall patching. But in spite of your experience, I stand by my statement, If it won't penetrate a wall, it won't penetrte bad guy well enough to incapacitate him. Nothing you have written disputes that statement.
PS, I'm not trying to be disagreeable by referring to the incident as a Negligent Discharge. I just happen to agree with John Taffin who often states that unless it is caused by a failure of the firearm there is no such thing as an accidental discharge, only negligent discharges. FWIW I'm as guilty as anyone else, I've had a couple of ND's over the years.