Hi, I live in Texas and have easy access to shotguns. I am planning on buying a short barrel shotgun for my final day so I can easily pull the trigger myself. I have never shot a gun but can receive training at the gun store before purchase. I know there will be a lot of recoil so I want to ensure that the gun is stabilized and the recoil doesn't interfere with my death... even though I know with a shotgun the chances of that happening are minimal. With that said, does anyone have any advice how to best stabilize a shotgun to keep it stable? I plan to go right through the back of my mouth to get the medulla oblongata.
The recoil shouldn't be too much of an issue if you properly brace the gun against the floor.
I've found a huge amount of debate on what shotguns work best and what loads, double OT buck, or 00-Buck is a preffered choice by many, but some have said slugs are better since a slug is really just a giant bullet.
Bonus points for slugs because that rifled hollow-point slugs are very common, but they also cost a lot, useally over a dollar per round, but seeing what your intent is it shouldn't make a difference.
As for barrel length, this is a difficult topic, shotguns must have a barrel of eighteen of more inches to be legally available for purchase or owned in the U.S.A, and unfortunately in Texas, too. And I'll detail all complications for this aswell.
You can buy shot-pistols, however, these cannot be sold with a stock, so no form of bracing with be possible, essentially think something along the lines of the Diablo shot-pistols. Some more downsides other than stability is muzzle velocity, which needs to be roughly 450FPS to be lethal for soft organs, bones would likely completely stop such a shot, especially with how reinforced the skull is.
the main benefit to smaller shotguns is a wider spread to guarantee something important gets hit, but something like an SBS, or Short Barreled Shotgun is heavily regulated by the NFA. If you want one you'll need to pay an additional $750 charge and undergo a waiting period for your form to clear. Theres no real reason to use an SBS unless you want the spread to be roughly 12-20% more aggressive. This is a downside for slugs of all kind, and only will benefit buckshot. And as for birshot, that shouldn't even be considered, about 5% of all shotgun suicides fail, and disastrously, and my personal guess is birshot may attribute to at least 0.5% of those failures.
Full length shotguns may just be the best choice because it has enough barrel length to make the projectile, or projectile clusters go supersonic. There is pretty much a 0% chance of failing IF you aim it right, which you won't. You can't see the sights of the firearm and thus you're taking a blind guess.
In the mouth is apparently the only "safe" way to kill yourself with a gun since the point is apparently to strike the brain-stem and sever it causing almost guaranteed instant death.
There are guides for shot placement, but i don't trust any of them. If the attempt fails you're gonna be so fucked up that whatever you're dealing with now will be a bed of roses.
And with an at least 5% chance of failing, which would be catastrophic it's genuinely not worth the risk.
And 5% isn't even right, it's either a 100% chance of failure, or a 0% chance.
I'm aware the forum strictly is against discouraging suicide, and i personally would love nothing more than to die, i tried pulling the trigger earlier today, but I'm not much of a gambler even though i had the best odds with a full length and buck, i just couldn't with the risk of becoming a veggitable, this is coming from an actual gun fanatic with more knowledge on ballistics than most, i don't recommend you try. I have no clue what you're going through, but it's not as bad as a failure, i can guarantee that, I've been in such mental agony recently that I've almost thrown up. I'll take my current predicament over being lobotomiesed.
Human bodies were meant to be resilient, even a direct 500kg bomb might fail as a method, and the truth is that either you fail or you don't, theres no in-between you're either the one being lowered into a grave, or the one being lowered onto an electric wheelchair.
If you do try, hopefully you find the end you were looking for and don't become retarded as a fucking carrot.
