The Shotgun for Home Defence | Lockdown Edition

[treeman]

My post, and I suppose the whole shottie idea is much by heart and less so by logic. There is just so much authority, sense of being in control with a shottie.
I will not argue its benefits, nor it correctness, but I will say that when I crouch down with a pump action I "feel" a lot more confident - bit like driving a big old car I guess feels so much safer, but we all know what the studies have proved.

[SLR]

How likely are you to be in a situation where a family member is taken hostage in an action movie position while you have only a shotgun?

[Dinat]

https://boksburgadvertiser.co.za/285...efs-brain-out/

I recall this one incident...I would not want to be in this position with any platform.


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[b20]

How likely are you to be in a situation where a family member is taken hostage in an action movie position while you have only a shotgun?

Hahahaha!

I know.. this forum makes me laugh

[ktmfourstroke]

I do love shotguns and they most certainly are very capable in a home defense situation. However, I like being able to have my pistol on me 99% of the time, even walking around in my own house. Personally, my self defense shotgun would see more time in the safe then anything else, making it an un-viable option for me.


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[Springer]

How likely are you to be in a situation where a family member is taken hostage in an action movie position while you have only a shotgun?

Ya, truth. And you know the sound of the racking makes the okes bekak themselves and flee in terror when you spring up from behind the couch.

[Adoons]

For Self-defence - No
For Home Defence - Yes!

For me there is a huge difference between the two. For self-defence you carry a decent pistol in a decent caliber.

For home defence? Well, lets just say my good old and cheap Maverick stands in the first notch in the safe. Loaded with AAA and 6 extra in a side saddle and another 6 in the sling. Strictly speaking it should not be loaded. Well, strictly speaking we also should not have farm attacks.

Right behind the shotgun stands the AR. That is for "perimeter defense." For me also something else than SD and Home Defense.

[M43]

For Self-defence - No
For Home Defence - Yes!

For me there is a huge difference between the two. For self-defence you carry a decent pistol in a decent caliber.

For home defence? Well, lets just say my good old and cheap Maverick stands in the first notch in the safe. Loaded with AAA and 6 extra in a side saddle and another 6 in the sling. Strictly speaking it should not be loadedS. Well, strictly speaking we also should not have farm attacks.

Strictly speaking... If it is "kept ready for an emergency" it is not strictly the same as being "In storage". (Whatever "in storage" means.) If I want to "store" a gun I would do so at a GS. While in my safe, my guns are "kept ready for an emergency"

[Vaal]

Loaded with AAA and 6 extra in a side saddle and another 6 in the sling.

Personally I have a pet hate for a sling with ammo in it as it tends to swing around while I'm shooting. Doesn't it bother you?

[Adoons]

6 shells are not too heavy. Also, what I believe, and do, but maybe I am in the wrong here? The sling is attached "the wrong way" and even further modified that the shells are at the rear (stock end) of the rifle. In that way they don't hang and swing so heavily at the muzzle end.

That said, yes, without shells in the sling and even more so without a sling a shotgun is lighter. I have given thought to a separate ammo belt or maybe a shell holder on the stock. But I do need a sling on my shotgun to throw it over a shoulder when I feel my pistol in hand would be a better tool for the circumstances. And as it has loops I can just as well use that.