Looks = not important
Function = very important
Having a white light source mounted on your HD shotgun is important.
Suggestions: 1) Find yourself an LED light that will fit the mounts you have rigged, what appears to be an un-shock-resistant flashlight you have mounted is most likely going to pop the filaments in bulbs well before their time. And since you can't easily remove the light for practice with the shotgun, it's going to get recoil-battered a lot- that means the bulb, batteries and the components that hold them all in place will take a beating. I am all for saving money, but sometimes you save money at the cost of reliability. For roll-your-own shotgun light mounts, LED lights are a LOT better approach than incandescents, and a rig that allows you to easily remove the light during practice is an even better approach to avoid unnecessary battering of the light from recoil. It is a good idea to arrange things so that any light you mount on a shotgun can be switched on and left on if needed, that way your support hand can be free for other tasks while leaving the light on if needed.
2) Lose the bayonet and substitute a spare ammo load on board the gun instead, and learn to feed that puppy in a hurry. Hot lead trumps cold steel any day. Butt cuff, Sidesaddle, Speedfeed magazine stock, doesn't matter how you arrange it, but get a reload or partial reload mounted on the gun and learn how to get it into the magazine fast. Reloading a shotgun under pressure is one of the more important skills you can develop, and keeping in practice is a must to maintain it.
3) Get some good training with that scattergun, and BA/UU/R. The shotgun is not tactical, but the operator is- and the only way to be tactical is through training and practice. Bolting stuff onto the shotgun is no substitute for training and practice. A Plain Jane 5-shot bead sighted blued steel and walnut stocked 870 riot gun in the hands of a trained shooter is a tactical shotgun, a top-of-the-line all-tricked-out Wilson Combat 870 in the hands of someone who has only fondled it while fantasizing in the living room is not a tactical shotgun. Get tactical, get training and practice.
Stay safe,
lpl/nc
