Where to keep ready HD shotgun - The Firearms Forum

ineedsoap16 · 05-10-2009, 10:13 PM

I just purchased a mossberg 590 as my primary HD weapon. My wife and I have no children but we do have two dogs (basically our kids). My question is where to secure the weapon so that I have immediate access. A closet is not an option due to the fact the my side of the bed has a sliding glas door to our hottub (easy entry point). I do secure it but i want something I can access without jumping over the bed and back. I thought about slightly under the bed under me loaded w/ no round in the chamber. Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. By the way my wife is and will be fully ready to use this in the event that I am not present.

jacksonco · 05-11-2009, 12:15 AM

I have heard of people mounting them above the bed or over the entry door into the bed room.

1 CAV · 07-25-2009, 01:17 PM

Unfortunately this is a question for which there is no "right" answer. None of us here know the layout of your home, and I'm not suggesting you should post that online by any means. I wouldn't. Additionally, I think you should consider more than just the "I need to get to it quick from my bed" scenario. Often times home invasions happen while the home owners are awake and moving around the house. No matter what happens, you can bet good money that whatever happens will be something you never expected could happen. These things never unfold the way we envision them in our minds. I would personally suggest more than one firearm, placed in key locations around the house that are not obvious and where only you and the wife know about them. This way no matter what end of the house an intruder(s) enters from you are close to a firearm and not cut off by the offender(s). That's my 2 cents anyway.

carver · 07-25-2009, 01:46 PM

What if you are in the back yard grillin, and chillin? Sitting in the living room enjoying a movie, and pop corn? As 1 CAV said, I have guns in every room. My shorty shotgun is standing by my bed against the wall, next to the night table that keeps my .45 laying right beside me. My flash light is right beside the .45.

doug66 · 07-25-2009, 02:43 PM

No perfect location, just have one close.

I need to think about a good bathroom gun.

johnlives4christ · 07-25-2009, 11:43 PM

at night i'd open the drawer to the nightstand just a tad and lean the barrel of the shotgun in the crack. during the day i'd keep it handy. i take a gun everywhere i go, except the shower, but when in the shower it is on the back of the toilet within reach. course mines a pistol though.

Doc1911 · 07-26-2009, 02:50 PM

You may desire to consider something like this: Back-Up

einvasion · 11-30-2009, 10:11 PM

I think that keeping your shotgun by your bed ready for action is a good idea. Under the bed mounting is good but I saw somewhere else on The Firing Line that there is a new bedside rack. There is a video on YouTube that shows the rack in use here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GXYAzh8EQ I think that within a second or less I could pull out the gun and be prepared to protect my home or go hunting.

einvasion · 11-30-2009, 10:14 PM

PS:
You can get that rack here: http://www.home-backup-protection.com/index.html Shotgun bed rack

05-10-2009, 10:13 PM	#1
ineedsoap16 V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Wilmington DE Posts: 86	Where to keep ready HD shotgun I just purchased a mossberg 590 as my primary HD weapon. My wife and I have no children but we do have two dogs (basically our kids). My question is where to secure the weapon so that I have immediate access. A closet is not an option due to the fact the my side of the bed has a sliding glas door to our hottub (easy entry point). I do secure it but i want something I can access without jumping over the bed and back. I thought about slightly under the bed under me loaded w/ no round in the chamber. Any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated. By the way my wife is and will be fully ready to use this in the event that I am not present. __________________ People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. -->

05-11-2009, 12:15 AM	#2
jacksonco Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jackson County West Virginia Posts: 2,237	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun I have heard of people mounting them above the bed or over the entry door into the bed room.

07-25-2009, 01:17 PM	#3
1 CAV Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 43	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun Unfortunately this is a question for which there is no "right" answer. None of us here know the layout of your home, and I'm not suggesting you should post that online by any means. I wouldn't. Additionally, I think you should consider more than just the "I need to get to it quick from my bed" scenario. Often times home invasions happen while the home owners are awake and moving around the house. No matter what happens, you can bet good money that whatever happens will be something you never expected could happen. These things never unfold the way we envision them in our minds. I would personally suggest more than one firearm, placed in key locations around the house that are not obvious and where only you and the wife know about them. This way no matter what end of the house an intruder(s) enters from you are close to a firearm and not cut off by the offender(s). That's my 2 cents anyway. __________________ I don't like repeat offenders, I like dead offenders. Ted Nugent

07-25-2009, 01:46 PM	#4
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,245	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun What if you are in the back yard grillin, and chillin? Sitting in the living room enjoying a movie, and pop corn? As 1 CAV said, I have guns in every room. My shorty shotgun is standing by my bed against the wall, next to the night table that keeps my .45 laying right beside me. My flash light is right beside the .45. __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

07-25-2009, 02:43 PM	#5
doug66 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas Posts: 538	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun No perfect location, just have one close. I need to think about a good bathroom gun.

07-25-2009, 11:43 PM	#6
johnlives4christ Former Guest Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,828	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun at night i'd open the drawer to the nightstand just a tad and lean the barrel of the shotgun in the crack. during the day i'd keep it handy. i take a gun everywhere i go, except the shower, but when in the shower it is on the back of the toilet within reach. course mines a pistol though.

07-26-2009, 02:50 PM	#7
Doc1911 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: USA Posts: 874	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun You may desire to consider something like this: Back-Up __________________ _____ Sincerely, Doc NRA Life Member

11-30-2009, 10:11 PM	#8
einvasion Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun I think that keeping your shotgun by your bed ready for action is a good idea. Under the bed mounting is good but I saw somewhere else on The Firing Line that there is a new bedside rack. There is a video on YouTube that shows the rack in use here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3GXYAzh8EQ I think that within a second or less I could pull out the gun and be prepared to protect my home or go hunting.

11-30-2009, 10:14 PM	#9
einvasion Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	Re: Where to keep ready HD shotgun PS: You can get that rack here: http://www.home-backup-protection.com/index.html Shotgun bed rack