Anchorage man kills neighbor's Chihuahua with shotgun(AK)

adn.com ^ | 19 March, 2010 | JAMES HALPIN

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Remington 1100 and 11-48 have been made in .410. A number of pumps, Browning BPS, Remington 870, Mossberg 500 and Winchester 42 exist. The doubles, both O/U and SxS are very numerous.

It’s a great gauge, I routinely break 90+ with it at Skeet.

[cripplecreek]

Aw hell, that’s barely a shotgun.

[Nachoman]

...when a 74-year-old man fired a shotgun out a window of his home...

Give the guy a break. Deer season was over.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Aw hell, that’s barely a shotgun.

I beat a guy with a 12 gauge Perazzi at trap with a .410 from the 18 yard line.

[marktwain]

Very likely he simply did not think the dog would be killed, only stung. A number of people use bird shot to discourage bears, but the shots are usually from a much further distance, and a bear has much tougher fur, hide, and fat than a chihuahua.

A lot of people have little practical experience with ballistics.

[mowowie]

Get outta my lawn you damn Chihuahua!!!!

[Past Your Eyes]

Yeah, but not a big medal since he only got one of them.

[cripplecreek]

I didn’t say it isn’t a good gun. In fact I think they should be far more common. I used to hunt squirrels with an old single shot .410. That was a beautiful learners gun too. Your basic point and click interface.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Shotgun ballistics are sometimes confusing to rifle and pistol shooters.

If we use target loads as an example, all of them regardless of gauge, propel the shot at 1150 to 1250 feet per second. The difference is that the shot charge varies from 1 1/8th ounce for a 12 gauge to 1/2 ounce for the .410. Terminal energy of the pellet is no different.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve got a feeling that the commie ‘RATS and their toadies in the “media” are going to try to pin this on Sarah Palin.

[Randy Larsen]

I’ll bet he was tired of stepping in Chui crap.

[Still Thinking]

You think the little guy would have managed to impregnate the female several times his size?

Humans seem to make it work.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The problem is that they’re usually choked too tight so the pattern doesn’t develop in a reasonable range, and that screws up beginners who don’t have the skills to maximize a shot charge that’s less than 1/2 of a 12 gauge.

My favorite gun is a Winchester 101 O/U choked SK/SK that absolutely chews them up on the skeet field.

[mowowie]

Yea........i suppose....

[gitmo]

Anchorage man kills neighbor's Chihuahua with shotgun(AK)

[marktwain]

“The difference is that the shot charge varies from 1 1/8th ounce for a 12 gauge to 1/2 ounce for the .410. Terminal energy of the pellet is no different.”

Exactly so. Well said.

[Ezekiel]

The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog

He chose... poorly.

[mowowie]

Something that really stuck with me as a kid was the story of this cool guy actor on the set of some tv show in the early 80’s.
He put what was some stage prop type pistol to his head as a big joke, pulled the trigger and killed himself.
Big joke.

Anyways i learned that you don’t ever point a weapon at anything you don’t want to hurt.

[marktwain]

“The 10-year-old Chihuahua, Faux Pas, was apparently attracted to Mueller's own dog

He chose... poorly.”

If the bitch was in heat, there was probably little “choice” involved. I think it is more like a chemical reaction.

[muawiyah]

No reason whatsoever to have a Chihuahua in Alaska.