Based on my rather limited experience, that sound brought instant calm to a chaotic situation...
” “rack your shotgun to scare away the bad guy” meme is getting really old. Has anyone actually seen this work in real life”
Before the days of carry permits, my wife & I used to travel with a Remington 870 in the trunk.
While at an I70 motel outside of St Louis,the door kicked part way open at 3am. It was stopped by the secondary latch at the top of the door.
I grabbed the 870 standing between the 2 beds that had 4 rounds of 00 in the tube.
I racked it. As it made the unmistakable metal on metal “crack crack” sound, a womans voice yelled out, “Don’t shoot, Don’t shoot!
We be leavin’. We be leavin’,”
I heard feet running on the balcony deck. As I quickly looked outside, I saw a woman and 2 men high tailing it down the stairs to the ground floor.
Yes. Racking a shotgun does quite effectively work in the right situation.
No doubt about it.
Had they entered, they would have faced their life altering fate.