On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 02:06:07 GMT, "Steve" wrote:

Thank you. Just as a data point, do you keep it loaded, and
do you keep a round chambered? Do you prefer a shot load
or a slug load?

Nothing in chamber, 3 rounds in the magazine, basic dove & quail, nothing
that would go very far.

I consider that to be the perfect way to store a pump shotgun. And,
I'll add, with the bolt all the way home on an empty chamber and the
safety off.

To bring it into play, the first thing you have to do is press the
bolt release. That is under you thumb beside the trigger and it is
intuitive to you if you know the gun. It is a safety feature of sorts
if someone else picks up the gun.

Then you rack the bolt smartly and chamber a round. Your trigger
finger is, of course, straightened out and along side the trigger
guard, not on the trigger. Yet.

If you have an intruder, the sound of the bolt racking a round home
was his free warning and should provide all the inspiration he needs
to leave now.

And the dove and quail loads are perfect for inside the home.
Overspray can be repaired with spackle. If I chamber three rounds,
sometimes I'll load a 00 buck round as the first round in the magazine
(last round out). I figure the first one or two will do the work and
if I have to finish up outside the house the buck will give some extra
range.



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