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Thread: "Competition" Style 2-shell mounts for home defense?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiman View Post
    On some shotguns like the Benelli M series, you can open the bolt, eject out the shell in the chamber and replace it with another shell, without the gun loading another shell from the tube. For LEO purposes, it comes in handy because you might go from 00 to a bean bag round, or other non lethal shell as the situation changed. We used to keep 2 bean bag rounds on the right for those reasons. Sometimes we put breaching rounds there depending on what we were doing.

    To add a few rounds on the right in the way we used it will be dependent on if it will function in a similar way. Many shotguns won’t allow you to eject a round without automatically loading a second one from the magazine tube. If it works in your gun, it gives you choices vs. being married to whatever first round you have in your chamber....which might not be the ideal round.
    Mixing lethal and less-than-lethal in the same weapon is a recipe for bad juju.
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    It’s the best alternative for this type of weapon. We don’t carry two different shotguns (one lethal and the other non-lethal)...not during an op, and at the time we didn’t carry tazers.

    During times we were called up for demonstrations, an orange non-lethal shotgun was passed out (870) but other than that we always defaulted back to our Benelli.

    It all comes down to training. I’d agree that it’s probably not the best idea for civilian use (mixing lethal/non lethal), but it still has merit if a user wants to put a different kind of lethal ammo on the right side.

    IMO, one of the biggest advantages to a shotgun is its versatility. There’s no other gun that can shoot anything from flares, CS, bean bags, rubber stingers, breaching rds, birdshot, 00, slugs, etc... We used that to our advantage. There are a few instances where lethal force was justified, but the decision was made to bean bag the shitbird and it worked only because we carried in the manner that we did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Whitlock View Post
    Mixing lethal and less-than-lethal in the same weapon is a recipe for bad juju.
    I’m with Chuck on this...
    The first indication a bad guy should have that I'm dangerous is when his
    disembodied soul is looking down at his own corpse wondering what happened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jiman View Post
    It all comes down to training. I’d agree that it’s probably not the best idea for civilian use (mixing lethal/non lethal), but it still has merit if a user wants to put a different kind of lethal ammo on the right side.
    As a civilian I can’t think of a situation where I’d want less lethal rounds for my shotgun.

    But I have heard of LE shooting someone when they meant to taser simply because their taser was too close to their duty pistol. So this mixing rounds seems like an accident waiting to happen but I’m no cop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TCinVA View Post
    Vang Comp's side saddle cards:

    https://www.brownells.com/shooting-a...prod31882.aspx

    I'm using just the Extra Carrier there affixed to my guns with industrial strength Velcro.

    Works like a champ.
    Do you have photos somewhere of how you set up your shotguns? I have been wondering about this, actually. I was never a shotgun guy but I've seen enough of your stuff that I'm more interested in them these days.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misanthropist View Post
    Do you have photos somewhere of how you set up your shotguns? I have been wondering about this, actually. I was never a shotgun guy but I've seen enough of your stuff that I'm more interested in them these days.
    I'll take some porn shots tonight.
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