School me on home defense shotguns

[funkymonkey1111]

On Buckaroobonsai's recommendation i just bought an Elzetta flashlight mount--should be waiting on me when i get home--looking forward to getting it mounted tonight.

[birddog]

I feel that if you are racking the slide you are just telling the bad guy that you are not prepared and give you a second. Hopefully the first noise a bad guy hears from me is boom.

I think I will go with an 870 and light. Sounds just like what Im looking for. What lights and loads do you guys run? I assume you stack the loads for different effect from each round?

[JohnTRourke]

I feel that if you are racking the slide you are just telling the bad guy that you are not prepared and give you a second. Hopefully the first noise a bad guy hears from me is boom.

I think I will go with an 870 and light. Sounds just like what Im looking for. What lights and loads do you guys run? I assume you stack the loads for different effect from each round?

#00 buckshot
1 1/8oz loads (9 pellets)

you'll never remember what is in where, you have no idea what the threat is, etc.

just load it up with something super effective (00 buckshot)

[funkymonkey1111]

I have a Malkoff MD2 light with an M61 emitter for a light. Federal 00 8-ball low recoil--no other loads necessary or warranted.