I handload some very nice 2 3/4 inch reduced charge/recoil cartridges in 00 buck and #4 buck respectively. I would never be foolish enough to admit openly that they are to be used for such purposes for legal reasons so I call them my "close range, anti-varmit shot gun shells"
You know, it'd be really nice if this type of "close range, anti-varmit shotgun shell" was available via a public vendor.
Yeah, my SG has #4 also, but I'm still worried that (God forbid) if anything happens, that 6-month kid next door will catch a few pellets - even though it would have to go through my exterior walls, the other house's exterior walls, and into whatever room he sleeps in.
KNOWING that a round is designed to be stopped by a few sheets of drywall would be one less thing to worry about.