How to Safely Store a Benelli 12g 28" Shotgun

Video Transcript

"All right, so here we are. We've got our shotgun all wiped down. Our Benelli. And what we're going to do now is we're just going to kind of go over a few firearm safety rules again. Now, we haven't worked with any ammunition this whole time, but we're just trying to build a habit--a safe habit of a routine in ourselves and in the people we're going to be around. And so what we're going to do is, I'm going to open up my action, and I'm going to physically look inside the firearm. And remember that we're always going to want the shotgun pointed in a safe direction. So I'm going to physically look in. I'm going to set this here on my table, and I'm just going to take my finger and I'm going to physically put my index finger inside, and I'm going to make sure there's nothing obstructed right inside the breech there. And there's nothing there. And so I'm going to release my action real quick. Remember, I'm going to just let my hand bring the action back down. I don't want it to slam into it. All right. So I'm going to flip this over, and I'm just going to set this shotgun down here again. And we're just going to push in the loading gate here, and we're going to check and make sure that there's nothing--that we didn't accidentally, or somebody else maybe when we walked away, put something inside of the tube. And we're just going to use our index finger again. And I can see physically that there's nothing there, and I'm also going to touch and push it in the plunger there, and there's nothing there. So, we're going to do one last check. Make sure everything. We're going to do one last overlook. Keep everything pointed in a safe direction. What we're going to do now is we're just going to store this in a soft case. Now I'm going to be storing this in a soft case today because I'm actually going to be taking this particular shotgun back out into the field. Now if I wasn't, I would just go put it inside my safe and I would shut and lock the safe. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to slide it inside this silicon-impregnated case here, and I'm going to keep it inside here. But what I'm going to do for a little bit of added security is when I zip this shut, there's actually a little ring down here at the bottom of the bag, and I'm going to put a little luggage lock on here, and that's going to give me a little bit of that added security and safety feeling in knowing that my storage of my firearm is responsible and safe. And so when I get this all slid into the bag, I'm going to get it ready, we're going to put it up, and we'll be safe, and we'll know that we cleaned, reassembled, and stored a safe, responsible firearm."