IHC, you hit the nail on the head. I don't know how many times I have read comments like "If it is good enough for Clint Smith, it is good enough for me." And this is done with all sorts of other experts or notable gun people.
Just because someone of note uses a brand or type of ammo, gun, flashlight, etc., it does not mean or imply that is the type of gear that the rest of us should have. Those people have made their own decisions based on their own circumstances (finances, local environment, threat level, etc.). That is what each of us need to do. Heck, Clint Smith also owns a cannon, but I certainly don't need one. He also happens to live out in the middle of nowhere in the desert scrubland hill country of southern Texas and thinks a powerful carbine rifle is the perfect gun for home defense (not a shotgun). Why a rifle? Because with no kids at home and no other neighbors in direct line of sight and the closest being more than 800 yards away (behind a hill, apparently), he feels the rifle will give him the best results. A rifle is NOT a good idea, he pointed out to our class, for people living in most urban or city environments and especially not for those living in apartments and mobile home parks. His situation is unique. And he likes to jokingly add that his pistols are so that he can fight his was back to his rifle and his rifle is so that he can fight his way to the cannon that by that time, Heidi should already have loaded with grapeshot, the cannon being inside his home. Somehow I don't doubt that he would fire it in his home if he truly had a need.