Defensive shotguns: What do you have?

[T3hK1w1]

I use my 870 Express with the original 26" barrel and a +3 mag extension. I also use it for goose, duck, quail, dove, and hog hunting :) For the migratory birds I put in a home-made plug that limits it to the mandatory 2+1 capacity. I do get funny look when I pull that LOOOOOONG dowel out of the gun though! :)

[WillieD]

I have a 870 Remington Super Mag with a +2 mag extension and an 18" barrel (on order) loaded with 3" 000 Buck. This will become a dual purpose shotgun; home defense and hunting.

I also have an old Springfield 67E with an 18" barrel loaded up with 00 Buck.

[Keith B]

I have a Mossberg 500, 20" barrell, loaded with #4 buck.

[AggieMM]

Winchester 1300 Defender



Ryan

[RKirby]

Remington 870 HD 6+1 loaded with 00 buckshot. Three more buckshot and three slugs on the side saddle.

[Mike1951]

Mossberg 590

870 Marine Magnum

870 Wingmaster with Armoloy finish

Slugs on the buttstock. Spare buckshot in the sidesaddles.

[anygunanywhere]

Winchester 1300 Defender in the closet. 00 Buck in the tube ready to rock.
Remington 870 in the safe. Right side with 00 buck in the tube ready to rock.
Mossberg 500 Marinecoat in the safe. Need a boat for it.
Mossberg Maverick 88 Security in the safe.
Norinco Mod X12 (Ithaca 36 knockoff) in the safe. Left side with 00 buck in the tube ready to rock.

Anygun

[jimlongley]

Mossberg 590, almost a clone of Longtooth's except with a sling.

[Texasdoc]

I use a Rem.870 Express with 000 buckshot out of a 20" riot barrel and I have a ithaca mod.37 as a back up


Doc

[Moonpie]

I decided to go Old School. Real cool old school.

[Rocketdog]

Mossberg 500A...What a coincidence!!!

My wife truly believes the sound of a good pump action shotgun in the middle of the night is the best inducer of weak bowels (and capitulation) in any intruder who happens to make a very poor decision to pay us an uninvited visit...

How can you argue with logic like that???

I agree with Stevie. There are two things in the world that nothing else sounds like....one is a snake dropping off a log into the water, and the other is the sound of racking a shell into a pump shotgun. At my house it's a Mossberg 500 pump backed up by a Taurus Judge revolver which chambers both .410 shells and .45 Long Colt. If the 000 buckshot in the .410 doesn't solve the problem, then the .45's will.

[KBCraig]

Winchester 1300, 18" cylinder bore, full length mag. Loaded with 7 2-3/4 inch No.4 Buck, plus five slugs in the buttsock.

It's in the original wood stock, but I would like to add a Knox buttstock for recoil management (those 1300s have some serious kick!)

I have a fiber optic front bead, but I'd like to add a red dot of some type. And if I'm getting all tacticool, might as well add a flashlight to the foreend.

[txinvestigator]

Winchester 1300, 18" cylinder bore, full length mag. Loaded with 7 2-3/4 inch No.4 Buck, plus five slugs in the buttsock.

It's in the original wood stock, but I would like to add a Knox buttstock for recoil management .

You soooooooo should. I did a class with mine once where we fired all 00 buck and slugs. It was like firing bird shot all day, while those with standard stocks were hurtin!

[308nato]

Winchester 1300 Defender I bought about 16 years ago with all nice wood 18 inch barrel, 8rds in the tube w/00 buck,
and 1 in chamber , 50 rd bandoler over my shoulder, lets rock.

[longtooth]

Mossberg 590, almost a clone of Longtooth's except with a sling.

Yea, jim, mine has a sling but I dont have it on in the house. Did when Rita came through & several of us did a lot of walkin in the neighborhood at night.