From LewRockwell.com:

A year or more ago in these pages, I made the suggestion that sometimes less is more, and usually shooters with less powerful guns with which they are more skilled, will shoot better than if they had a bigger, more powerful firearm that kicked the heck out of them every time it went off. I haven't changed my opinion in the intervening months, and I'd like to focus on the shotgun side of that.

The most popular shotgun in the United States, in the memory of any living American, has been the 12-gauge. It throws seven-eighths of an ounce to an ounce or more of lead, whether that heavy metal is distributed in tiny birdshot pellets, or big buckshot pellets, or the single humongous projectile that is known in the trade as a slug.

And, if you've ever shot one with a full-power shell in the chamber, you know that a 12-gauge kicks like heck. Guns which recoil that hard will...

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