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HD shotgun storage
- Thread starter theblakester
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Down load the magazine by at least one round (or two) if you're going to store it loaded for long term. Shotgun mag springs WILL take a set if left fully compressed and can become so weak the last two rounds will not feed at all. This is not an internet rumor, ask any police armorer who works on riot guns stored in cruiser racks left loaded continuously. I store mine next to the bed muzzle down with 4 rounds in the mag, one in the chamber but with the bolt pulled back an inch and a half so that you can see the shell. Safety off. If I have to grab it I only need to run the forearm forward that inch and a half and I'm good to go. No fumbling for a safety. Just pick it up and "stretch it". It is very fast and can be done quietly if necessary. With the bolt unlocked and partially open the gun cannot fire even if it falls over. I have no kids and the wife is fully familiar with every gun I own.
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deepvalley
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*Single but my nephews come by daily
*in a gun rack above their reach 4ft from my bed
*cruiser ready
*loaded with 00buck
*in a gun rack above their reach 4ft from my bed
*cruiser ready
*loaded with 00buck
No-one else will handle my HD shotgun.
It is propped-up in a particular closet but a medium-frame semi-auto pistol is my go-to "bump-in-the-night" gun.
Five-round magazine is full (of 2-3/4" rounds but could hold as many 3") as is the Speed-Feed +4 stock, plus there are five more in the side-saddle (14 1-oz. rounds on board).
Hammer dropped on aluminum snap-cap in chamber. What's a safety? Pump-n-go.
Gehr
It is propped-up in a particular closet but a medium-frame semi-auto pistol is my go-to "bump-in-the-night" gun.
Five-round magazine is full (of 2-3/4" rounds but could hold as many 3") as is the Speed-Feed +4 stock, plus there are five more in the side-saddle (14 1-oz. rounds on board).
Hammer dropped on aluminum snap-cap in chamber. What's a safety? Pump-n-go.
Gehr
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mine is in a closet along the same wall as the closet door, flat against the wall leaning against the door frame (someone wouldn't see it just looking in the closet, friends/family mainly). But I am single with no children or anyone to worry about messing with it right now. It is cruiser ready with 4 00-buck reduced recoil loads. 3 more 00-buck and 2 full power slugs (turned the other direction so I know which is which) in a butt-cuff.
Not saying it's wrong, but I wouldn't keep my SD shotgun with the chamber opened. The risk is very low that something could find it's way in there or the shell might start to roll out (or at least enough to cause a jam) if you didn't pick up and hold it correctly while grabbing for it and racking forward, but there *is* a chance.
Not saying it's wrong, but I wouldn't keep my SD shotgun with the chamber opened. The risk is very low that something could find it's way in there or the shell might start to roll out (or at least enough to cause a jam) if you didn't pick up and hold it correctly while grabbing for it and racking forward, but there *is* a chance.