hi friends welcome to active self protection extra on today's lesson i want to talk about another dumb gun saying and that is just rack the shotgun and that'll send them running off i use throom targets on the range for all the benefits of steel with none of the drawbacks they're made in the usa too pick up a set to make your shooting more fun and effective seriously i hate sayings like this and i'm going to tell you why from a practical perspective as well as from a tactical perspective why it's just not so now if you followed active cell protection extra for any length of time you know i love the house howitzer for home defense i love shotguns i think a shotgun is an incredibly useful tool in fact i would even argue the best tool for home defense for most private citizens even better than a carbine uh and yet that said there's this popular thing and we jokingly call it fud lore right so it's after elmer fudd be very very quiet that that uh says well here i am if i've got you know an intruder in the house then really all i got to do here is just rack the shotgun and that'll send them running and and this fails it fails on a number of levels and i want to tell you why number one it can work but these are the same people that as soon as they see a person show up they run off and so what we see in home invasions all the time is that you know they aren't expecting people to be home they're expecting it to be a burglary and not a home invasion and if you watch the main active self-protection channel you see it all the time that you see somebody who is thinks they are breaking into a home that's empty then as soon as a door opens and they see there's someone there they scatter so if it does okay you know that that sound of the shotgun but that's just a noise that there's another person around that's really scaring them off it's not the shotgun that scares them off it's your presence that scares them off and that's good i mean if your presence scares them off and they don't get away with a bunch of stuff and you didn't have to have a gunfight with them winning but if that's the case my voice will do just as well and my shotgun should be ready and if my shotgun is not ready and in a ready condition where i could bring it to bear well then i'm challenging somebody and the person that it won't drive off is a person who is a determined aggressor not your typical home invader we're not talking about your typical meth head looking for a score to get some more meth we're talking about a hardened criminal now somebody who is willing to have a gun fight with you and or take you hostage in those things and this is a serious fight that you need to be ready for and own so that brings us to the tactical part so okay fine now what we're going to say is is that if i'm in my back room or whatever and i rack this shotgun maybe they don't hear it we'll talk about that in a minute but otherwise what i'm
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