Some great looking guns, guys!
PandaBearBG, according to some you're making a fundamental error: you are mixing thinking with imagination, as in "Who'd a thunk it?". Some folks just won't allow that, thinking outside the box.
They have no idea whatsoever that a guy packed full of heroin or crack can have his leg cut off with a dull handsaw and not complain. They simply cannot comprehend a single round of 12ga #8 birdshot not completely incapacitating a person. They have no idea just how bad some bad guys can be at 6'6" 345 lbs loaded on drugs, alcohol, brain damage & self-induced insanity.
To their narrow mind all encounters happen in broad daylight, or with all the lights on in the house, so tactical-lights are pure silliness. They imagine that just the sound of racking the slide will have any threat soiling his drawers & cowering in mortal fear. Side saddles are seen as plain stupid because they are totally incapable of reloading a shotgun themselves in the middle of a hot gunfight. Slings are a frivolity because everybody knows you keep a shotgun in a padded, zippered case until duck season, when you finally take it out and oil it, maybe. Short barrels are purely impractical for goose hunting. Custom stocks are a travesty because they think they'll be around after an attack to oooh & aaah over the swirls in the woodwork of their 30" 3 shot goose gun.
They also cannot imagine that bears: poppa, momma and 2 cubs, all at once and all hungry & insanely angry, can make for a very hectic and maybe short day if all you have is 4 shots.
Their famous last words after they suddenly get wised up the hard way are unprintable here.