Never give away your position. The thug's will just shoot towards the sound.
Hey! Druggies always run from the sound of a racking gun action. They use a crowbar to break in, go into their I’m cool hold the gun sideways stance, and say did you hear that? Then they run. Happens every time. It’s why the first sound you hear at my house is the last sound you ever hear. Sooner or later the drugged up dumbshits forget to run.
Also, you just advertised that either:
1. You keep your shotgun without one in the chamber, or
2. You just threw away one round.
“Never give away your position. The thug’s will just shoot towards the sound.”
That’s contrary what many training programs that recommend you yell out, from a place of cover or concealment, that you are armed, demand that the intruders leave and that you are calling the police.