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I worked the action furiously, once, twice, and again, realizing dimly as I did that in doing so I was actually ejecting the shells, unspent, and basically unloading the weapon.

Yup, sure thing, this clown said he spent many hours at the range.

I'm laughing at this and if any of it were true, I'd be laughing harder.

I CALL FICTION ON THIS!

***I worked the action furiously, once, twice, and again, realizing dimly as I did that in doing so I was actually ejecting the shells, unspent,****

Now what type of shotgun does that? On mine, when I jack a round into the chamber, the bolt locks closed until I fire it or press a small button outside the trigger guard to slide the bolt open.

Not to mention that he expressly says he only got one shell into the chamber.

Then he ejects multiple shells on the floor ...

He is a liberal idiot with a degree in literature ... writing fiction ...

Yep. This is an invented story of a liberal making a pathetic case for gun control.

"America should give up its right to defend itself because I'm a sissy."

This story just doesn't have the ring of truth! He peed his pants and dropped his ammo...this ~~man~~ worm has NEVER handled a weapon.

And, without pulling the trigger, he had to have been holding the action release open in order to repeatedly cycle the pump action.
Obviously, his range time was not spent in scenario shooting exercises, or stressed shooting exercises.
Just standing on the firing line, shooting round after round, is great for acclimating to recoil, working on sight picture, and so forth.
If you are working to improve your stress reaction and response, try running wind sprints up and down the line, and then putting double taps in the X-ring. Have a range buddy load up a dummy round somewhere among the live rounds for your next magazine, then shoot a series not knowing which one won’t go ‘bang’. Go shoot at night, and take along a couple of flashing lights or strobe lights.
Set up realistic scenarios to gain proficiency with your concealed carry rig.
Spend time in the stress environment you expect in a life threatening encounter. That will build proficiency, and stress tolerance, that may very well save your life.

Though I'm not going to say this guy is telling the truth, don't be so quick to write off the part about the shells. A lot of people who only shoot on the range or shoot skeet load their shells in a very unhurried situation, in full light with no stress at all. This guy may have seen himself (as he says we do) as a hero in his own personal action movie and just figured he'd know what to do when the time came. then he "trained" for a situation where there was no threat and no hurry.

The way you train makes a vast difference in how you act in an emergency. For years, police and other shooters have heard that these CHP officers died because they were policing up their brass during the firefight, just as they had done on the range. It turns out that may not be true, but the fact that people with hundreds of hours of range time and maybe even a firefight or two under their belt saw how that could have happened and changed their training methods tells us something about range vs. real life. That something is apparently beyond the now-defenseless PhD candidate who thinks he's heroically brave because he is leaving the woman who depends on him defenseless and announcing it to the world.