Pete- good choice. Let me guess- you were also a Boy Scout. That old "Be Prepared" in today's world can mean more than just fresh Duracells in the old MagLite and extra Bics and waterproofed matches, along with a charged cell phone and a sharpened Randall or Buck in the sheath--

Sad but a fact of life- looters after Katrina, now in Chile after the 8.8 Richter scaled earthquake that hit down there-so the 870 stoked with 00 buck and a Uncle Mike's spare 5 round elastic shell carrier on the buttstock- good call.

Reminds me of a line from a Michigan writer's short story- "Revenge" by Jim Harrison- where the main character, a former Phantom pilot in Vietnam, is on the run in dark and dirty Mexico-the now deceased horse wrangler he hitched a ride with carried a S&W .44mag- now in his possession- and he 'slept the sleep of angels in the motel room that night, with the cold blue steel of that big revolver under his pillow, and the wrangler's $5K in the cigar box tucked inside the back of the TV set'--