Quote Originally Posted by slapout9 View Post
.......carrying a Winchester M1200 with 00 buckshot......how can you shoot to wound with something like that
and the ricochets * will scatter widely, increasing the possibility of a leg or lower body and thus (maybe) no fatal wound. **

That's serious and it works (Do not try this at home ).

What's even more serious is that 'shoot to wound' should never be a directive or an order. Never. Like Slap said "you can't recall bullets." JMM is also correct in that such an order is pure Court fodder and little else. ***

* Provided it's hardstand or firm ground, don't work in red clay mud...

** He said, as he belatedly applied a tourniquet to stop the flow from a single pellet nick in the Femoral...

*** The good news is that BS (Before Slap) the Guards carried M1s with 16 rounds and it was understood that if they fired, it was to kill. One I'm aware of, 1963, some off duty Coscom troop trying to scuff some food, apparently to sell, got shot by a sentry from the '04, miscreant died and the shooter got charged with a violation of Article 118, was tried under a lesser included offense of Negligent Homicide, Article 134, and was found not guilty simply because he was not negligent (but mostly to make sure the family of the deceased couldn't later come after the shooter). Then the PoS (Period of Slap) and shotguns replaced M1s, later, AS (After Slap) they went to night sticks and a radio -- no way to even wound, really, just call for the MPs (who are always trigger happy... ).