nowonmai wrote:I hear all that but I still think you may just want all the gear. If so, just crack on and get it, don't bother asking for advice.
My rationale:
After 50 rounds on the "range" you'll be bored shitless of firing at targets 100 yards away. It's pointless with a shotgun.
In the woods - all that stuff hanging off will make you shoot worse, not better as it will affect the guns CofG and impede your swing. The muzzle flash from a shotgun is negligible. Slings slow you up.
In the house - anything, anything at all, additional inserted in the chain of loading, make ready, point, release safety catch and fire is an unnecessary burden on a shotgun. The torch is unnecessary, the last thing you want to do is to give away your position. In home defence you should be static in an ambush position, unless you have blackout curtains this won't be a problem because your eyes are more likely to be attuned to darkness than the intruder. Anyway, a shotgun is an area weapon. Wandering around the house with a torch on the end of the gun looking for baddies is a recipe to die unless you are very well trained, even an average bad guy has a reasonable chance of closing with someone armed with a long gun inside a house.
Very good advice. A ghost ring ain't a really bad idea, but you don't need it.
I often chucke at all these badass SWAT guys running around with lights on their guns. Just gives someone hiding an a dark nook something obvious to shoot at. A couple of loads of buckshot in the vicinity of that light and somebody's going down.
