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@hermes.intel.com:bhoover@pdx254.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Bruce Hoover) writes:

# I've got a Mossburg 500 with 20" barrel, pistol grip stocks. Yes those 
# 3" shells do thump ya. I'm thinking about putting a shoulder stock on it.
# I feel 2 3/4" would get the job done too though. (30-40yds)

Ah, yes, the "Cruiser".  I bought one, except it had an 18" barrel.  
I found it totally impractical, and God help the fool that uses one
for self defense, because the prosecutor's gonna have a real easy
job portraying you as a Rambo/Charles Kursey ("Vigilante") wannabe.
That's a big price to pay just to have a gun that looks cool, IMHO.

I finally replaced the pistol grip with a shoulder stock, and put an 18" 
smoothbore slug barrel on it, and bingo, it's a deer gun!  I live in Ohio 
(ya gotta use a shotgun with slugs for deer) and I'm a licensed hunter, 
so there's no way a prosecutor could portray the gun as anything but a
deer gun, or me as anything but an innocent homeowner who grabbed his
"sporting weapon" to chase away the bad guys, even though in its present 
configuration, it's virtually identical to the riot guns the local cops 
carry in their cruisers.  (And also, I actually get to use the thing during 
deer season.)  

Lose the Rambo hardware and buy the shoulder stock;   you'll be happy you did, 
and it will still work just as well.  (And the web of your hand will hold
up longer, too.)

Ken