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Assuming you may be using your shotgun for HD:
Have you tried maneuvering in your home with you shotgun sling loaded with shells? I bought one and loaded it with shells and found very difficult to maneuver with shot shells in the sling. I bought a 50 round bandolier instead that I can throw over my shoulder.
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12 gauge 9 pellet 00 buckshot, Winchester segmenting slugs turned in the opposite direction.
I have, and fortunately for me, there's very little maneuvering to do. I live in a singlewide mobile home, and I can maneuver pretty well throughout the place. The sling plus all that buckshot makes it heavy as heck, though. My home defense plan right now is reliant on my .380 being enough gun because everything else is in the safe, though naturally if I have time every gun comes out for New York reloads. Fortunately, as my plan is to retreat to the bedroom at one end of the trailer (the room with the gun safe), the other end faces the brick walls on the back of a nearby strip mall. That gives me near two stories vertically and 50 yards left to right of backstop when facing my bedroom door (the internal trailer walls are effectively irrelevant). It also helps that a collection of run-down trailers in a run-down park just isn't inviting for most crooks. I have to use home carry for the .380 and a safe because I do have a roommate who has admitted he is not firearms savvy and doesn't wish to be. So, at least for right now, that's the compromise. Can't get rid of the roommate either. For all his other flaws, he pays his share of the rent on time, and in this time of uncertain employment, my landlord has generously raised everyone's rent...