Author Topic: Pump shotgun by my bedside. (Read 1064 times)

Goldie · « **on:** February 08, 2021, 05:58:59 AM »

With all that's going on I have been tinkering around with my Stevens pump shotgun. Added a magazine extension for it and nice little Bushnell red dot. I started keeping it leaned up against the wall by my side of the bed. With the borders here in Arizona becoming more and more busy with riff raff a person can't be to careful. One good thing is you can still buy the 100 round boxes of 7 or 8 shot at walmart. Old joe hasn't screwed that up yet.

Dee · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2021, 01:30:06 PM »

I've seen lots of gunshot wounds with 6 to 8 size birdshot. At room distances its devastating, and most times fatal with a decent hit.

DDZ · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2021, 02:05:30 PM »

Used to use my 870 loaded with #1 buck to keep under the bed for a home defense gun, but I got tired of changing barrels, and putting the plug in when I wanted to hunt with it. So just recently I got a Weatherby PA 459 for that purpose. It has a picatinny rail molded into the front of the pump slide that I mounted a Streamlight TLR on it. Now my 870 can again be my dedicated hunting shotgun.

Argent 88 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2021, 08:09:27 AM »

870 and a Benneli semi auto. Six or four shot shells from when I stocked up on them years ago. I have 00 buck but I don't use it much.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2021, 11:26:23 PM »

mosberg slug barrel with 3 in #4 buck by mine with a streamlight weapons light on it. its sits right next to my main defense ar15. About 4 steps from my bed. Glock 22 is what gets me to it. Figure 4 steps gives me time to decide which to grap. Shotgun for inside and rifle for outside.

ironglows · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2021, 12:31:28 AM »

Very effective, like mini Claymores...

Dee · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2021, 02:34:21 AM »

I just lock my really good doors.

Goldie · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2021, 04:56:08 AM »

Quote from: Dee on February 10, 2021, 02:34:21 AM

I just lock my really good doors.

So do i but being a good American and ole joe says all we need is a shotgun i'm just trying to be patriotic.

Argent 88 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2021, 06:27:51 AM »

Our doors are metal and framed with metal. Ive seen where home invaders can hit that wood hard enough to splinter it, they did mine. So we went back with steel. All the windows have a rose bush growing in front of them. A rose bush can cut you up pretty bad.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2021, 10:59:05 PM »

yup ive got steel doors too but you can break in by smashing a window with your hand. Id say thats the case for 90 percent of the homes in the country. Ive thought about bars on the windows but then it would be harder to justify a new gun to the wife

pastorp · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2021, 12:15:15 AM »

Window bars killed a family’s kids when I lived in Anthony, TX years ago. House fire started in the kitchen & the kids ran into the bedroom and was trapped because they couldn’t get the bars off the windows. And couldn’t reach the door to outside.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2021, 02:28:08 AM »

good point

Quote from: pastorp on February 11, 2021, 12:15:15 AM

Window bars killed a family’s kids when I lived in Anthony, TX years ago. House fire started in the kitchen & the kids ran into the bedroom and was trapped because they couldn’t get the bars off the windows. And couldn’t reach the door to outside.

Argent 88 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2021, 07:35:57 AM »

I wouldn't try to climb through a five by five foot rose bush. Then through a broken window. Ive tryed useing old blankets they didn't work. Had to throw plywood over it. Besides I have pet rattlesnakes, not lol. But we do have a couple of big dogs.

Argent 88 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2021, 07:41:07 AM »

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on February 11, 2021, 02:28:08 AM

good point
Quote from: pastorp on February 11, 2021, 12:15:15 AM
Window bars killed a family’s kids when I lived in Anthony, TX years ago. House fire started in the kitchen & the kids ran into the bedroom and was trapped because they couldn’t get the bars off the windows. And couldn’t reach the door to outside.

Indeed a good point Lloyd. Ive seen folks out here make the bars latchable only from the inside. But they were useing expanded metal screening, so a crook wouldn't have access to the latches.

Mule 11 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2021, 02:10:46 PM »

I have a daisy buck at the backdoor and a red ryder at the front. Be warned. I’ll put your eye out...

Goldie · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2021, 02:34:34 PM »

Quote from: Mule 11 on February 11, 2021, 02:10:46 PM

I have a daisy buck at the backdoor and a red ryder at the front. Be warned. I’ll put your eye out...

You keep your bb guns I'll keep the 12 gauge. Don't need the window coverings either or the steel doors. Works for me.

Ranger99 · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2021, 04:48:54 PM »

Quote from: Argent 88 on February 11, 2021, 07:41:07 AM

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on February 11, 2021, 02:28:08 AM
good point
Quote from: pastorp on February 11, 2021, 12:15:15 AM
Window bars killed a family’s kids when I lived in Anthony, TX years ago. House fire started in the kitchen & the kids ran into the bedroom and was trapped because they couldn’t get the bars off the windows. And couldn’t reach the door to outside.

Indeed a good point Lloyd. Ive seen folks out here make the bars latchable only from the inside. But they were useing expanded metal screening, so a crook wouldn't have access to the latches.

A relative had some installed for the
whole house, and apparently it's a
law here that any burglar bars or
security screens and such have to
be able to be unlocked from the inside
and swing away to allow for evacuation
in case of fire. All of them, not just
a couple. I guess that's for the best,
it puts a built in weak spot in any
defense such bars/screens may offer.
I've never heard an explanation of
what to do in the wee hours in the
dark when looking for your keys to
your bars to escape a fire or other
emergency requiring you exit that
way

Dee · « **Reply #17 on:** February 11, 2021, 04:58:08 PM »

Well the old saying; "a lock just keeps an honest man honest" is true to a point. If somebody wants in bad enough they'll figure out how to get in.

I'm puttin in quality steel doors in this house I just bought with the glass high on the door, and double pane windows.
It'll take effort to get in, and effort makes noise.
But it'll also take a lotta effort to get out, once they get in.

Argent 88 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2021, 04:21:10 AM »

Quote from: Dee on February 11, 2021, 04:58:08 PM

Well the old saying; "a lock just keeps an honest man honest" is true to a point. If somebody wants in bad enough they'll figure out how to get in.

I'm puttin in quality steel doors in this house I just bought with the glass high on the door, and double pane windows.
It'll take effort to get in, and effort makes noise.
But it'll also take a lotta effort to get out, once they get in.

You can buy some pretty nice looking steel doors these days. And some of them come with a steel frame.
But that frame still has to be mounted in the wood, so some folks get that beefed up also.

Goldie · « **Reply #19 on:** February 12, 2021, 05:07:55 AM »

Quote from: Dee on February 11, 2021, 04:58:08 PM

Well the old saying; "a lock just keeps an honest man honest" is true to a point. If somebody wants in bad enough they'll figure out how to get in.

I'm puttin in quality steel doors in this house I just bought with the glass high on the door, and double pane windows.
It'll take effort to get in, and effort makes noise.
But it'll also take a lotta effort to get out, once they get in.

Totally agree on all counts. Now getting back to my original subject. Pump shotgun by my bedside.

DDZ · « **Reply #20 on:** February 12, 2021, 08:46:07 AM »

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on February 09, 2021, 11:26:23 PM

mosberg slug barrel with 3 in #4 buck by mine with a streamlight weapons light on it. its sits right next to my main defense ar15. About 4 steps from my bed. Glock 22 is what gets me to it. Figure 4 steps gives me time to decide which to grap. Shotgun for inside and rifle for outside.

Do you like the streamlight? I also have one on my AR. They are bright, and I like the design of the lever for constantly on, by pressing one side, and by pressing the other side its on just as long as the lever is depressed. A little more money than some lights, but I think they are great lights for use on a firearm.

fatercat · « **Reply #21 on:** February 12, 2021, 01:48:22 PM »

Winchester model 64, 30-30 by my bed, 45 long colt S&W in nite stand. outside, inside ready.

Goldie · « **Reply #22 on:** February 12, 2021, 02:26:57 PM »

All very good choices gentlemen

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #23 on:** February 13, 2021, 01:02:23 AM »

I guess then if a guy had to get out fast because of a fire or home invasion your back to my theroy on home defense guns. Last think i want to do in the heat of an action is fumble with safetys or turning on optics or trying to unlatch a window and what would be difficult for me would be triply difficult for my wife. then the rose bush thing too is going to hurt you going out as much as a home invaders going in. Difference is hes not pressed for time or under pressure and could cover it pretty easily. Best solution is my load of #4 buck through the glass of the window. Heck im a nice guy. Let me open it for him

Thankfully i live in an area where we still leave our doors unlocked. But thats changing. If this year was the new norm our area is about overtaken by out of staters in the summer and some of them were even living in tent communes on the shore of lake superior all summer. Im sure its just a matter of time before Sheriff Andy needs to be replace buy sheriff Clint. i know last summer was the first year i felt a need to carry a gun on my daily walk that looped around near the campground and went by the tent commune.

Quote from: Argent 88 on February 11, 2021, 07:41:07 AM

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on February 11, 2021, 02:28:08 AM
good point
Quote from: pastorp on February 11, 2021, 12:15:15 AM
Window bars killed a family’s kids when I lived in Anthony, TX years ago. House fire started in the kitchen & the kids ran into the bedroom and was trapped because they couldn’t get the bars off the windows. And couldn’t reach the door to outside.

Indeed a good point Lloyd. Ive seen folks out here make the bars latchable only from the inside. But they were useing expanded metal screening, so a crook wouldn't have access to the latches.

Chenango · « **Reply #24 on:** February 14, 2021, 03:05:16 AM »

Near my bed is my Browning 16ga "sweet 16" with red dot sight and have 5 rounds of no 4 bird shot attached
to stock.

Graybeard · « **Reply #25 on:** February 14, 2021, 04:16:51 AM »

Bedside shotgun is a Browning BPS with factory 20" IC barrel and holds 8 rounds of 00 buckshot and five more in a butt sleeve. It has a light and laser attached.

Doublebass73 · « **Reply #26 on:** February 15, 2021, 07:41:54 AM »

Mossberg 590A1 with an 8 round magazine full of 00 buck. I also like #4 buck. My AR is also at the ready, it's good to have choices.

Dee · « **Reply #27 on:** February 15, 2021, 02:37:52 PM »

About 30 years ago I tore an 1100 down, changed the ejector, the extractor, extractor spring, feed spring, and opened up the ejection port forward. Put a nice trigger pull on it, and a 20 inch barrel with screwin chokes, and steel rifle sights with fiber optics. It holds 7 rounds and will group 6 slugs into one ragged hole at 50 yards.
I feed it 2 3/4" #4 buck magnums. It's a fight stopper, and the gas system reduces the recoil.