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FIRE A R M S TAC T I C S TIMERS The Lind T2 Shut Down Timer protects your vehicle battery from over-discharge, and protects communications and other sensitive equipment from low voltage and high voltage damage. The Rio Royal Brenneke Slug is capable of carbine-like accuracy in a smoothbore. The amount of energy transfer will often trump any law-enforcement project out at shotgun ranges. are designed for smoothbore short barrels. There are slugs for rifled barrels, but the propensity toward leading with some products suggest smoothbore slugs are a better application. I practice with slugs at about 150 yards, with reasonable accuracy. No one (including me) would recommend employing slugs past their recom- Photo courtesy of Robert Marvulli the target is very high. Second, most shot pattern tests can easily demonstrate that an 18-inch barrel shotgun will usually have patterns past 20 inches around at 15, not 25 yards. This will preclude buckshot use in most high-risk traffic stops. In fact, most uses beyond employment as an entry gun could be questionable, as long as there are non-targets in the periphery. For the record, buckshot is one of the best uses for the officer performing or covering the breaching. Shotgun slugs are a completely different story. They usually send an ounce of lead payload at about the same velocities. What most forget is that a shotgun using stabilized slugs is usually as accurate or more accurate than a handgun at 25 yards. Most assume that it takes a rifled slug barrel to make a slug accurate enough for duty use. In fact, almost all law enforcement slugs mended range (usually 50 to 65 yards), but officers should know their capabilities and their department policies. I can send a slug at 100 yards predictably under most conditions, regardless of the action (slide or auto) or brand of shotgun. At 25 yards, I can generally get single-hole patterns with many brands. I used a Mossberg 590 A1 and my Remington 870 for this test. With either gun, the Rio Royal Brenneke (RBK12) printed tiny cloverleaf patterns that stayed under two inches at ranges under 25 yards. I shot several sub one inch groups from a sandbag. I consistently shoot patterns with Brenneke slugs under three inches at 100 yards. For this article, I used Rio slugs. Rio is the largest manufacturer of shotgun shells in the world. Their products span all aspects of shotgunning, from INSTALL To learn how the T2 Shut Down Timer can work for you, contact Lind at 1.800.697.3701, via email at info@lindelectronics.com or visit us online at www.lindelectronics.com. The T2 Shut Down Timer turns off electrical loads at a preset time after the car engine is shut down. The timer has two outputs; each has its own time delay. Independent Time Delay Independent Time Delay Circle 73 on Reader Service Card 34 Law Enforcement Technology September 2013 Circle 74 on Reader Service Card www.officer.com