Randl, no I am not arguing that at all. I never mentioned daylight or number of badguys. I don't know where you live, but where I do, in suburbia, there is generally a decent amount of ambient light. Especially if i have been in the dark for a while, say walking around looking for a house to enter, or spending a couple of minutes entering said house. There must be SOME light, the badguys wouldn't be robbing you by feel. Only on really dark, moonless nights would your statement be correct, and probably only during a power failure anyway. I may have worded it badly but i wasn't meaning for him to see you holding the gun steady, but for the weapon to be ready to use
I'm not offering straw men arguments, people, including people on this website, promote racking a shotgun to scare people away. You can not rely on this to work. If it did, why do people load their guns?
I was taught not to grand stand. Making macho sounds with weapons is exactly that. Leave it to the movies. I happen to trust my safety, and I leave my shotgun standing muzzle down. However if i didn't or i had it chamber empty for some reason, the weapon gets cocked when i pick it up . Not when i'm facing down a badguy. Regardless if it is these super ninja warriors you claim i talk about or the hippie tree huggers you plan to be robbed by, an unloaded weapon is close to useless.
Worst possible scenario, you are attacked by ex South African super ninja warriors, and you arm gets injured. Yes, yes. You keep saying how unlikely this is in your hippie filled USA, but this is armed combat we are talking about. You don't own, train with and prepare to use a firearm if you don't think of it as combat. If you don't, give up your firearm and get a noise maker. In combat bad things happen. If you wait to charge your weapon, you might not get to.
In all honesty, running gun fights in the streets are in the minority here as well, and badguys running away also happens, but why bank on a best case scenario.
I have recently had another discussion on another American board where someone was trying to talk me out me armed confrontations at all, saying things like "if you injure or kill one, the other is likely to get angry and extract their revenge." this is when talking about aimed, effective fire over simple kla-klack noises. People have different opinions on the effectiveness of criminals in the USA.
Now on topic, i'm loving these tactical red neck guns. I've heard of sticking a light on a double. Literally. Do they work? I know pretty much every double has a different front end, but i wonder how a railed front end would work. I need to find a friend with one i can experiment on.
