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...when you rack a 12 gauge every criminal wants to get small....

FreeME..........The trick is NEVER let the PERP hear that shotgun rack until the trigger is pulled and the BOOM!!! is on it's way. You just don't ever want to give your postition away in or out of the house with the "racking" of that slide.

FreeME..........The trick is NEVER let the PERP hear that shotgun rack until the trigger is pulled and the BOOM!!! is on it's way. You just don't ever want to give your postition away in or out of the house with the "racking" of that slide.

It has always seemed to me that the one and only "gun sound" that Hollywood seems to always get right, is the sound of pump gun chambering a round. EVERYODY who has ever watched much TV has heard that sound enough times to have a pretty good idea what it means.

I just don't care for it when they "rack the slide" on an 1100 or some such.

Priceless!!


People have come to call that a wives tale but I�m here to tell you, it works. Funny story �

I�m 16 years old, and I�m a gun-geek even at 16; I just didn�t have very many guns. It�s the middle of the night, and my grandmother (raise by grandma) spirits into my room and wakes me up and says there�s someone breaking into the house. I wake up in time to hear the front door open as the crook defeats our laughable excuse for a �lock�. Now at age 16 the one thing I could afford to collect was ammunition, and at any time, there is ammo on every counter, surface, shelf, under my bed, etc. I grab my grandfathers old JC Higgins Model 20 shotgun and start searching my room for ammunition and I�m not finding anything; I�m starting to get really nervous. So remembering that racking the slide of a shotgun is universal language for get the %$&# out of my house, I swing my door open, and call out something like �I know you�re in my house, (slide rack as hard and loud as I can), I have a shotgun, if I see you, I�ll shoot you� Sure enough, I hear the front door open and close before the echo of my voice died away (apparently this crook fell into category #1). Not trusting to good nature, I continued to fumble around looking for ammo, and find a single shotgun shell on the bottom shelf of my bookshelf. Load it into the gun and began searching my house (hey, I was 16, what do you want?). And predictably, the crook had fled the scene. I secured the door, we went back to bed, this time with the loaded shotgun right next to my bed. The next day I unloaded my shotgun to discover the round I had put into my gun was a Vietnam era flechette round with 34 case hardened, fin stabilized arrows inside it. I�m pretty sure I was in violation of a few laws just having it in my collection; I�m even more sure it would have been very frowned upon (in California no less) to shoot someone with such a round.

Learned a long list of lessons that day; thank God no one had to get hurt.

It has always seemed to me that the one and only "gun sound" that Hollywood seems to always get right, is the sound of pump gun chambering a round. EVERYODY who has ever watched much TV has heard that sound enough times to have a pretty good idea what it means.

that loaded rottweiler must be one sweet thing!

Just don't tell us it's +Pee.