{"id":1455,"date":"2015-01-18T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2015\/01\/18\/clint-smith-on-shotgun-versus-pisto\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:25:02","slug":"clint-smith-on-shotgun-versus-pisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Clint Smith On A Shotgun Versus Pistol For Home Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11008,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.personalsecurity.us\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/16\\\/do-you-have-a-defensive-shotgun-more-importantly-have-you-trained-with-it-lately\\\/?utm_content=buffer53568&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.grantcunningham.com\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/16\\\/do-you-have-a-defensive-shotgun-more-importantly-have-you-trained-with-it-lately\\\/?utm_content=buffer53568&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nClint Smith of Thunder Ranch is one of the most highly respected trainers in the industry. In the NSSF video below, he discusses the use of a pistol versus a shotgun for home defense.<\/p>\n<p>Often, the shotgun is downgraded as a home defense tool due to its length and the thought that an intruder could grab the barrel. As Clint shows in the video, the difference in length between a properly presented handgun and a shotgun is not that great. That said, regardless of the weapon used, you need to train as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalsecurity.us\/2015\/01\/16\/do-you-have-a-defensive-shotgun-more-importantly-have-you-trained-with-it-lately\/?utm_content=buffer53568&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant Cunningham makes clear<\/a> in this post.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_APnhoIYeD0\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch is one of the most highly respected trainers in the industry. In the NSSF&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2357,2358,232,327,2359,497],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clint-smith","tag-handguns","tag-nssf","tag-shotguns","tag-thunder-ranch","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}