Manipulating Semi-Automatic Shotguns

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Once we have the rounds and we have the chamber locked open, we've finished this way, this is the way the gun was being stored, we immediately, the very first thing we wanna do, is put a round into the chamber. Once we get a round in the chamber, we may as well be in a firing position with the gun, close it, now we are ready to go. Safety on or off. If the safety is off, we're gonna have that finger and strong register either way. What we need to remember, if we ever put the shotgun down or we get into a position where someone's grabbing it, or we get into a close quarters situation, we're trying to wrestle over the firearm, we need to move down, put that safety back on. And immediately, we're gonna continue to load. With a sporting gun, we may not be able to load more than one or two other shells into it, but we're going to do what we can. I get to this position, I can't load that third one, it comes back into my hand. Now I'm in my ready position, I'm standing by, if I need to engage a threat and I do so, after I fire and that round is ejected, I'm immediately going to go ahead and load this next round in. Of course, one round would have come out of the tube and gone into the chamber. Now I'm fully loaded. Again, if I was gonna move from the vehicle to go secure a family member or to take the family or myself to a safer place, I wanna take some shotgun rounds with me. You put them in a pocket, carry them in my off-hand. I can still get a good shooting position even with some things in the off-hand. But we don't wanna compromise this hand, and we wanna make sure we have around in the chamber as often as possible. Semi-automatic shotgun, even a sporting one, could be a viable and effective self-defense tool. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.