As I stated earlier I bought a Mossberg Maverick 88 for home defense use. It has the 18 1/2" barrel. I have the gun in the bedroom standing in a corner behind the bedroom door. The way the room is arranged it is practically invisible. The gun is stored unloaded with the safety off. There is a hard plastic Sidesaddle shell carrier mounted on the left side of the reciever with six low recoil 00 buckshot shells. On the stock there is a fabric shell holder with five #4 shotshells. The idea is that the gun can be picked up and loaded quickly by somebody that knows what to do but a kid, such as my soon to be four year old granddaughter, can't push the shells into the magazine and if they could they would not be able to hold the slide release button and rack one into the chamber. I heard a story about a guy nearly shooting his son by accident when the college age kid snuck in one night after a party rather than drive twenty miles back to his dorm room. Got to thinking about that and mounted a flashlight on the barrel that has a remote switch next to the trigger guard.
I am by no means an expert on weapons of any kind but I put a lot of thought into what I would buy, how to store it, ammunition, and accessories. You don't need the light or shell carriers. They don't make the weapon deadlier, they do serve a purpose for what I am using the weapon for. I can be out of bed and loaded in less than thirty seconds. I can turn the light on and see who is there with the loaded gun pointed at them. And if I, heaven forbid, have to pull the trigger the shot will strike where the light is shining.
RSKY
