Home defense with an AR-15 etc type rifle?

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by Toyman at Jewel Lake

I would think that anyone that has a "home defense" shotgun and has to work the action to chamber a round after an intruder is in the house...has watched too much TV. Why give up 1 round of an already very limited magazine capacity? And why advertise your location to an intruder? No question about the effectiveness of a 12 ga though.

People rarely leave a live round in the chamber, for safety reasons. Thus, requiring the pump shotgun to be cycled before a round enters the chamber ready to fire. Furthermore, you are advertising to the intruder that you are armed with a pump shotgun. Just the sound of a cycling round from a pump shotgun would cause most rational intruders to flee.

[Robert_J]

Originally Posted by Glitch

People rarely leave a live round in the chamber, for safety reasons. Thus, requiring the pump shotgun to be cycled before a round enters the chamber ready to fire.

Why not keep a round in the chamber and ready? Every home defense gun I have staged is in condition 1.

Originally Posted by Glitch

Just the sound of a cycling round from a pump shotgun would cause most rational intruders to flee.

If I had to put a round in the chamber, it would be done well before I turned off my home alarm. Assuming it were quiet, I'd rather have them thinking "Was that click the safety on a shotgun or a rifle?"

[Jaggy001]

Originally Posted by Glitch

People rarely leave a live round in the chamber, for safety reasons. Thus, requiring the pump shotgun to be cycled before a round enters the chamber ready to fire. Furthermore, you are advertising to the intruder that you are armed with a pump shotgun. Just the sound of a cycling round from a pump shotgun would cause most rational intruders to flee.

If they haven't fled at the sound of the alarm or from me switching all the lights on (which I can do from my bedroom) then they are not 'rational'. So hearing me load my gun is not going to make much of a difference.