Has anyone gone back to a simpler shotgun?

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My house shotgun is this old Mod 11. Kept with #4 and some spare in the buttcuff, actually helps balance out and make raising onto target easier. K.I.S.S. No lights, I keep a bedside flashlight next to the G23.
 

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I used to use a 500 with a light and side saddle.

But recently my shoulder has been acting up. Sometimes I wake up to it burning. Enough that sometimes I wonder if I can handle the recoil. So now I just use my M4. It is in the same configuration it was in the army minus the ACOG scope, meaning I use a Surefire weapon light and KAC grip on a rail system, along with an ACOG reflex and KAC rear flip sight (the front is standard). I can literally pick it up and go like it is an extension of myself. Which is what is really important. It isn't what you have on the weapon, it is how well you can use the weapon and the attachments on it.
 
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I've had various HD arrangements, but at one point I realized that the firearms I am most familiar with are over/unders and side-by-sides. To wake up groggy and then be full of adrenaline, I need something I don't have to think about to operate. So I've gone to a side-by-side in 20 gauge with 20" barrels and a single trigger with #4 buck. Even a butt cuff with five shells throws off the balance, so I just have a shell belt I can throw over my head and one shoulder. If I don't get them with the shotgun, they may die laughing a the sight of a naked fat man with sawed-off and a bandoleer.
 
Strykervet, sounds like you have been hard wired to it for some time. Immediate muscle memory reflex is a good thing.
 
I find myself leaning more towards more basic weapons also. I sold the tacticool shotguns and am down to only 3 semi auto handguns. I was impressed with tactical firearms for quite a few years but i'm in a back to basics trend now days.
 
Both my HD shotguns are pretty simple. In my HD plans the shotgun serves a single simple role...to keep bad guys from coming through the bedroom door. That is their only job, house clearing is the job of the handgun and outside the house is the job of the rifle. The HK/Benell1 121M is factory with the exception of Being Pro-Ported and having thin wall chokes installed, patterns 00 Buck much better now. I use the barrel with the Trijicon for 3 gun matches (the scope and mount have been moved to the plain barrel)...

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My 1100 is my main HD gun. I added the Speedfeed stock and mag extension. Sold the 28 inch barrel and added a 26 inch Hastings Wadlock barrel for very tight patterning.

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Neither will ever have lights, lasers, slings, foregrips, rails, or anything else added to them. Lights just give the bad guys a great aiming point and everything else is a potential cause of the gun hanging up on something. No, the 1100 is not bone stock but it is still very simple, nothing to hang up or cause problems.
 
451 said it right. A light on a gun used at night makes a great target. As previously mentioned a little light in a house helps you make necessary identifications. You know the house better than the intruder, giving you the advantage. The simplest things seem to work the best.
 
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