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Originally Posted by kepp
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One of these is probably your best bet among 12-ga. shotguns. Either Mossberg or Remington is fine. Ideally you'd want the semi-auto version of either. But if you can't find a SA or just can't fit one in your budget, then understand that you're going to need to practice running the pump until it becomes instinctual. Triggerpressracktriggerpressrack. Faster than you can read that. Probably at least 500 reps to begin to commit that to muscle memory.
Living in an apartment presents other problems. 00 buck will go right through several sheets of plywood/sheetrock, so if you have neighbors living on the other side of any of your walls, 00 buck is probably going to easily penetrate through with enough velocity to kill anyone on the other side.
I'd personally choose no. 4 buck, which will still kill a man with a head shot/upper torso shot, or at least be an effective man-stopper, but probably won't penetrate two sheets of plywood with enough velocity to kill someone unless the pellets hit you in the eye or throat.
Another tactic is to load the first two rounds with 00 buck and the rest with a smaller gauge, such as no.4, that way your first couple rounds are no.4, when the intruder is probably farther away, and the last couple are 00 buck for when they're closer, and the issue of missing is reduced. Of course, this supposes that you can readily perform the running ritual described above.