{"id":51425,"date":"2022-02-25T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=51425"},"modified":"2022-02-25T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T13:30:39","slug":"shooting-the-shorties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/shooting-the-shorties\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Shorties"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51427\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/shorty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"146\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gunsmagazine.com\/guns\/shotguns\/shooting-the-shorties\/\">SHOOTING THE SHORTIES<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>When these first hit the market I did not see the practical benefit to be honest with you.<\/h2>\n<h2>Yes, they are small and compact, but at what expense?<\/h2>\n<h2>What are you giving up for that convenience?<\/h2>\n<h2>For me, I would much rather pack a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mossberg.com\/product\/500-tactical-jic-51340\/\">Mossberg 500 Cruiser<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddotarms.com\/remington-870-cruiser-12ga-18-black\">Remington 870 Cruiser.<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Is it as compact? No. But by retaining the pistol grip I still have some semblance of controllability, not to mention keeping decent capacity (6+1).<\/h2>\n<h2>But as time has went by and several friends of mine slowly began singing the praises of these midget fire breathing beast, I started seeing the benefits.<\/h2>\n<h2>One of the biggest benefits is they give you the closest legal thing to an SBR Shotgun you can find without the un-Constitutional registration and &#8220;tax stamp&#8221; and in the age of the ATF Stasi, who doesn&#8217;t like giving the finger to the man when it comes to inalienable Gun Rights!<\/h2>\n<h2>I am a huge believer in the Shotgun for Home Defense\/CQ engagements and having one or two of these babies tucked away in the right spot could never hurt!<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHOOTING THE SHORTIES &nbsp; When these first hit the market I did not see the practical benefit to be honest with you. Yes, they are small and compact, but at what expense? What are you giving up for that convenience? For me, I would much rather pack a Mossberg 500 Cruiser or Remington 870 Cruiser&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,13890,6613,3644,402,5504,24,1309],"tags":[13184,13952,13953,13954],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}