Shotty "behind the door"

[crashresidue]

Cheers guys,

I've read many post on multiple forums that talk about having a "shotty" behind the door - why not put it ON the door?

My 870 is mounted on my bedroom door. Using cheap stuff bought at Home Depot or Lowes, it's very easy to mount one that is off the floor, basically "out of sght" for a home invader - by HANGING it on the door!

A local LEO that had stopped by for a neighbors problems didn't detect it - even after I invited him to "provide protective comments" about our house. Yea, he looked behind the door - but didn't look at the back of the door.

One motion brings it off the "base-plate" and out of the "broom keeper" snap link. Then it's finger on the slide release, cycle the slide, and she's good to go.

Just a thought.

Gentle winds,
cr

 

[Preacherman]

As long as there are no kids in the house to "play" with it, sounds OK to me. One family I know round here has one mounted that way behind the bedroom door, covered with a dressing-gown. Completely hidden, but readily accessible. (Their kids are all old enough to do this.)

 

[crashresidue]

Cheers,

Oh yea, NO kids. Just me and my Lady. She's got a .38 on her side of the bed, MY 9 mike went to her side of the dinner table last time I went to fires.

Strange how this happens!

Seen the wall clocks and pictures that hide pistols over on SG.com?

Gentle winds,
cr

 

[Highpower1]

That's a good idea. I keep a shotgun in a couple of rooms, in the closet bolted above the door. I have yet to have anyone that I've asked to look in the room see the shottie.

 

[crashresidue]

Cheers

Above the door is good - but think about ON the door!

I sleep next to the door - in fact the "shotty" is as close as the weapon that's bolted to the bed. I'll grab the "shotty" first!

Sorry, I remember the thread about "trick names" for guns. Sorry.

Gentle winds,
cr

 

[Leanwolf]

HIGHPOWER1 - "I have yet to have anyone that I've asked to look in the room see the shottie."


Highpower!, you haven't asked a real burglar to look around your room yet, have you??

You'd be surprised where -- and how -- real crooks look through your house.

L.W.

 

[hexidismal]

I'm not a fan of the guns left out in the open approach, kids or not. Concerning a nighttime intruder, I try to take into account the very real possibility that said intruders presence may be initially undetected. And of course I don't want to risk putting a weapon into his/her hands. This might apply even more during the daylight hours when I'm not home. I feel like keeping your weapons out in the open is basically just giving away your guns to a criminal.

 

[Eyesac]

Highpower, I've often thought of sticking an old shotgun or rifle above the door in the closet, real good spot if you ask me! Not for "safe storing" but for easy access... just about anything that is easily accessable is not very safe or kid proof.

 

[Cosmoline]

What happens if the door gets kicked down and your shotgun is underneath it? Unless you've got a genuine hardwood or metal door with reenforced steel fixtures your door is probably a lot less strong than you may think. Keep your shotgun closer to your center of control, and further from an intruder's.

 

[El Tejon]

I must confess I have never understood the gun culture's obession with certain things (derringers, pumas, bears, all the inane tiny handguns that are carried, rifles or shotguns that are far too long, the adversion to education and training, inter alia) and having the "gun behind the door" is only one of them that I do not understand.

The shotgun needs to be with you. Where you are sleeping, not where you may be and really shoud not be (behind the bullet funnel, aka the door).

 

[ZeSpectre]

I'm reminded of after my friends grandfather passed away and the people who bought his old house discovered he'd modified the lintle above the front door to hold a seriously-illegal sawed off shotgun.

Slap the lintle with your hand and it fell open, then grab the shotgun off the clips it was mounted on.

'course "pappy" was a moonshiner from WAAAAAY back in the day so he may have even forgotten he mounted it there.

 

[Ritchie]

Sorry, I remember the thread about "trick names" for guns. Sorry.

Does this thread still exist somewhere? Where I work , word is that the
CEO is quite liberal, so g*** are referred to as "yogurt". Ammunition
is "yogurt covered raisins". Until recently, g** s'cuse me, yogurt related
web sites were blocked on the company network, reason for unblocking
is not known.


We don't need no steenkin'....well, yes, those could be quite useful.

 

[joesolo]

Cosmoline and El Tejon pretty much summed it up to me.

 

[blo0dyhatchet]

A buddy of mine made a rig under his bed using plywood. I was basicly a spring loaded shelf, you pull on a cord, and the shelf comes down, with a shot gun in tow, grab the gun, release cord and the shelf goes back up. i thought it was a sweet idea, you hear a noise, roll off of the bed, and boom, there is your shotgun, but not in plain sight.

 

[Caimlas]

I'd personally prefer to keep the gun on the opposite side of the room from the door. The door is the point of entry, and if they get through the door without notice or before you're able to respond, whoever he is, he is now between you and your firearm. Not a situation I want to be in!

There's a shotty mounted behind the fridge in our house, which is right at the head of the hall and the doorway to the living room on the main floor of the house. Also, then there's the bedroom gun which I won't talk about. But the shotgun is concealed unless you know to look there, and easilly accessible with a quick grab. This way it's in the middle of the house where it can be accessed if coming from any direction of the house (confronting or fleeing).

I usually carry all the time when I'm awake, so there's little concern for a firearm elsewhere in the house 'ready to go'.

 

[tepin]

A buddy of mine made a rig under his bed using plywood. I was basicly a spring loaded shelf, you pull on a cord, and the shelf comes down, with a shot gun in tow, grab the gun, release cord and the shelf goes back up. i thought it was a sweet idea, you hear a noise, roll off of the bed, and boom, there is your shotgun, but not in plain sight.

Very cool. Sounds like something from Hogans Hero's. Maybe a better solution would be a shaped charge of C4 around the outer frame of the bedroom door. Before going to bed you arm the door knob. Someone touches the door knob the outer frame blows out.

 

[Chuck R.]

I've got a 3 1/2 year old, so nothing in my house is unsecured and unattended.

I use one of the V-Line shotgun/rifle cases under my bed for my Benelli M1S90. With the smooth powder coat finish it slides easily on the carpet. I tied a small handle to it, so I grab the handle, slide it out, and hit the 3 button simplex code.

Chuck

 

[66912]

My Ithaca spends the night next to the bed. In the morning it goes back in the safe locked up nice and tight until I need it again.

 

[LAK]

On the door sounds good, however if that door is abruptly forced, and one or more thugs come through it - now you have a problem. Might be okay in a home where all doors and windows are hardened and entry by even a team with heavy tools will have a minute or two delay of entry after making alot of noise.

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[bogie]

Guys, let's look at probabilities...

The odds are probably 1,000 to one (or better...) against you having to actually grab the boomstick in a genuine crisis situation.

And in such a situation, the odds are probably 1,000/1 cumulative that the situation will be outside the house, or just trying to get in the house...

The boomstick under the bed or by the door should suffice...

Sez Bogie, who has a shorty Cold Steel Zulu spear mounted nicely and decoratively on the wall by his front door... Actually DID grab it one time during a "snake while gardening" scare from the girlfriend type... Turned out "huge and three feet long!" equates to about 6". And there she was, tellin' me I was King Studly... Sigh...