Use of reloaded ammo for self protection

I use either a Mossberg 500A or a older Remington 870 to hunt with. I leave the gun loaded in a corner by my headboard. The load is two .620" round balls which is deadly on deer or hogs. Now the question: If I should grab the gun, shoots someone (with the reload deer/hog rounds) who breaks into the house and it kills them. Can the court do anything to me, if the shooting is ruled justified, for using the reloaded rounds I used?

While I only play a lawyer on TV, I don't think a load consisting of two 1/2 slugs would matter to a court assuming both a slug and buckshot are legal in your state. Now if you were using Dragon's Breath or exploding rounds there might be a question or two not to mention you would burn your house down...

NO.

I've been a shooter for over 40 years. I've been a cop (now retired), I have been a reloader of shotgun, handgun and rifle.

And I have carried my own reloaded ammunition in several rifles and handguns. Some of it was even carried on duty as a cop, because I opted for carrying non-issued guns, so I had to provide my own ammo.

I made 5.56mm all copper barrier blind ammo that you just couldn't easily purchase.

My J-frame off-duty/backup had my handholds with 170-gr cast LSWCs doing 725-fps.

SO I have absolutely NO hesitation in carrying ammo made by me.

Am I supposed to accept a knife's factory sharpening job, or can I improve on it and make it more effective? Same thing.

with the ammo situation I imagine soon people will be converting shotguns to blunderbuss and defending themselves with a barrel full of drywall screws

Good question, I don't think it makes a difference but I know someone to ask. Locally we have a 2A attorney (damn good one) on 93.1fm Saturdays 5-7pm(if not preempted by IU football) if he's on next week I'll call and ask. Otherwise I'll check with my friend with over 20yrs as a LEO and detective.

I've often thought of this in the shop if someone were to walk in with a bad attitude. The number of potential weapons lying out and about (besides the pistol in the toolbox or shotty in the office) is mind-boggling and only limited by my imagination--busy hands make for a wandering mind... I could whip a solid cube of brass at a perp guaranteed to leave a mark. Who needs pepper spray when I have a can of (red) Brakleen that will shoot just as far but blind and gag even more effectively. Hammers and wrenches and utility knives and so on.

Once apprehended and secured, I could certainly interrogate with methods potentially more "effective" than water-boarding but I haven't been able to find any volunteers to try them on. Let's just say I have welders and powertools...

In the state of IN if you are legal in killing someone in self-defense(as long as it is reasonable), how you do it is of no matter. IE, booby traps, small nuclear devices otherwise its all good, Man I love the state I call home!!