I like the pump for home defense. I have seen what the sound of cocking it can do. It is louder and more authoritative than racking a pistol. I was awakened by a car door opening next door.(people screaming at each other don’t wake me up. Someone gently trying the door wakes me up) and then footfalls. My neighbor has a pump shotgun. I head it being cocked and then as I got to my front door(armed) a car door being slammed and wheels scratching off. Neighbor said later that I had, indeed, heard what I heard.
Good Neighbor.
Bump