[Blood of Tyrants]

Reliability. Until recently, the military refused to buy semi-auto shotguns because they would tend to fail under harsh battlefield conditions.

[harpseal]

My preference for a home defense shotgun is my nice old reliable 12gauge Mossberg 590 with 20inc full cylinder choke barrel speed feed stock with an extra six rounds extended tube take nine standard loads with one up the spout. My view is if that doesn;t sttop whatever is coming in the house then I go with the M1A1 with thirty rounds then to the .45acp's and 9mm's by the time I get through over 90 rounds with those If I still haven't got a stop I was in deep kimchee from the start and whatever it is will get a couple of rounds of .45-70 before it gets me.

I am guessing I am pretty well off unless a T-Rex comes through the front door.

[Squantos]

I had the same phobia regarding semi-auto shotguns. Then I picked up an M1 Benelli and attended a few schools with it. After a few thousand rounds and a numb right sholder I have the same confidence as I did with my Model 12 Winchester riot and my 870 Marine Magnum.

One does have to shoot em quite a bit more than the pump guns to develop memory muscle-matic skills.

Stay Safe !

[sneakypete]

Until recently, the military refused to buy semi-auto shotguns because they would tend to fail under harsh battlefield conditions.

While it is true they used Model 97 Winchester pump shotguns as "trench guns" in WW-1,there was also no shortage of Model 11 Remington semi-autos configured the same way. You used to see a LOT of these things with "Property of the US Gov't"" stamped on them. The reason the gooberment went to pumps after WW-1 was they were cheaper to buy.