[7MMmag]

Buckshot? naah, try one of these in 30-'06

hint, hint, you can get ten rnd magazines for them, though they're kinda awkward compared to the 4 rnd standard. I have the carbine length shorty barrel. 16", but according to Remington it's a bit over 17". It's shorter than a legal shotgun, and so just as fast handling if not faster than a tactical 12 gauge pump. A guy can get all of them off as fast as he can bring the barrel back to covering target.
Noisy as all get out in the short barrel configuration. It rings the left ear of a right-hander.

Much better focus of ft. lbs with a rifle round. Works better for targets as far or a bit further than the end of the driveway, too. Unless you live on the King Ranch or something, and need to drive just to get to the mailbox.

For nighttime, forget the scope, it'll be in the way more than being helpful. Close up, use instinctive point-and-shoot.

[TheCause]

Mr Charlton Heston:

“Every time our country stands in the path of danger, an instinct seems to summon her finest first — those who truly understand her.
“When freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril, it’s always the patriots who first hear the call.
“When loss of liberty is looming, as it is now, the siren sounds first in the hearts of freedom’s vanguard. The smoke in the air of our Concord bridges and Pearl Harbors is always smelled first by the farmers, who come from their simple homes to find the fire, and fight, because they know that sacred stuff resides in that wooden stock and blued steel — something that gives the most common man the most uncommon of freedoms.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju4Gla2odw