O/T Violence close to home

[skippy]

Should you and the wife bring a firearm into your life,please get some training and spend as much time at the range as your wallet can stand. Learning to handle a firearm safely will ensure a lifetime of enjoyment.

Many suggestions have been made and all have been good,but you and the wife have many hours at gunshops to go to find the perfect fit,and shopping can be good fun in itself.

I prefer the 1911 in .45,i have been around them all my life. If you have to shoot,throw the sink at them,huge chunk of lead. I also have a .357 with 2" barrel loaded with .38,ankle/under the pillow gun for backup. To each their own.

 

[triumphrider-1]

It wouldn't hurt to check your local laws for home defense either. If you shot and killed someone in your home it could possibly put you in jail for many years.

 

[Frank The Tank]

It wouldn't hurt to check your local laws for home defense either. If you shot and killed someone in your home it could possibly put you in jail for many years.

I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

Frank

 

[triumphrider-1]

I'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

Frank

As would I, but I'm just letting him know.

 

[02RangerXLT]

guess i got lucky. i always wanted to live in the country after being raised in the city. when i got here, i found 170+ acres at the end of a dead end road about 8 miles outside of town. only a few neighbors that i share the road with and we all kind of watch out for each other. and still, i keep my shotguns and other similar "tools" close at hand. i know there are crazies out there, but i refuse to be the victim of one of them. i suppose that's due to my years in the military.
just for the record, 3 shotguns, 1 center fire rifle, 2 small bore rifles, 1 small bore revolver, 1 center fire auto pistol, and enough ammo to get the job done several times over! they're all distributed throughout the house and garage and close at hand (but out of sight) no matter what i'm doing at the time.

almost forgot... i also have a very good dog that knows this is her property too and challenges anyone who gets too close! hard to go wrong with a good watch dog!

Good man.

 

[Mac]

Latest NRA magazine did a test on nine different .380 cal CC auto's, not that I'm endorcing them at all. The one thing that caught my attention is that all of them had feed failures in the first 100 rd's. Only one manufacture recomended firing at least 200 rd's thru and to keep it well lubed up before you should consider it ready for use. Run a lot of rd's thru what ever so you really get to know the gun. In the house, I'm going for a revolver but I have the Mini-30 for what ever in the yard. Had a bear in there a couple of years ago, coyotes across the road and wolves within 30 miles of here. Duster74 probably is close enought to hear the wolves when he is home.
Dave

 

[Frank The Tank]

I've never had a .380 failure......... I give them the green light for home defense.

I love mine, it's safe to handle, it's comfortable, and a woman can handle it without it jumping out of their hand.... even a small light .380. They pack plenty of stop power to boot.

I believe that NRA had trouble with them, but in no-way would that be the calibers fault, that's just too broad to believe. I have shot brick after brick through mine.

Frank

 

[Ranger Dave (B25)]

Latest NRA magazine did a test on nine different .380 cal CC auto's, not that I'm endorcing them at all. The one thing that caught my attention is that all of them had feed failures in the first 100 rd's.

I've put close to 1000 rounds of varying loads through my Makarov. Never experienced an FTF.

It's all about choosing quality ammunition and keeping it clean.

 

[angerranger54]

guess i got lucky. i always wanted to live in the country after being raised in the city. when i got here, i found 170+ acres at the end of a dead end road about 8 miles outside of town. only a few neighbors that i share the road with and we all kind of watch out for each other. and still, i keep my shotguns and other similar "tools" close at hand. i know there are crazies out there, but i refuse to be the victim of one of them. i suppose that's due to my years in the military.
just for the record, 3 shotguns, 1 center fire rifle, 2 small bore rifles, 1 small bore revolver, 1 center fire auto pistol, and enough ammo to get the job done several times over! they're all distributed throughout the house and garage and close at hand (but out of sight) no matter what i'm doing at the time.

almost forgot... i also have a very good dog that knows this is her property too and challenges anyone who gets too close! hard to go wrong with a good watch dog!

same here, i carry a XDm 40 cal, 870 express in the bed rail, ar15 for if the sh!t REALLY hits the fan, and a well trained rottweiler. but im a little paroniod.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

If I had to pick one thing for self defence it would be a shotgun. I also enjoy shooting bluerock over punching holes in paper so it would be a bonus as well. I have a Bantam Mossberg 500 20 gauge, the factory barrel is shorter than a standard barrel but still long enough to hunt/bust rock with. It takes a standard barrel, so finding a full length slug barrel for deer was easy as well. Its compact size and lower recoil over a 12ga will probably fit your wife better too. I know it will kill deer very easily, so I imagine it will work well against an intruder just fine.

I got it when I was younger and for some reason I can't get a full size gun to feel right, so I just keep shooting it.

 

[User Name missing]

friend of mine showed me his "welcome wagon" one time. It was a sawed off dbl barriel 12 ga. with the black cartridges (winchester xtremes?). He kept that one under the bed, mostly for his wife to use. No aiming, just point in the general direction and pull the trigger. Just don't pull BOTH triggers, you may loose you arm (it had one helluva kick!)

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

I have a 1100 remington with 4 ought buck shot in it 4 rds in mag and 1 in chamber, that's in the bedroom, there is a single shot 20 ga with a slug in it on top of the fridge. My wife carries a bond arms derringer with .410 buckshot in it I carry a subcompact .45 acp, am looking at a berreta because of the better options of carry holsters, and actually am stuck between it and another bond arms, they are nice...

 

[mn_smokeater]

Jspafford, one thing we all never really brought up was prices and some of the suggestions made can be quite pricey anywhere from 200-600+ new. there are good reliable preowned guns at pretty fair prices.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Should you and the wife bring a firearm into your life,please get some training and spend as much time at the range as your wallet can stand. Learning to handle a firearm safely will ensure a lifetime of enjoyment.

Many suggestions have been made and all have been good,but you and the wife have many hours at gunshops to go to find the perfect fit,and shopping can be good fun in itself.

I prefer the 1911 in .45,i have been around them all my life. If you have to shoot,throw the sink at them,huge chunk of lead. I also have a .357 with 2" barrel loaded with .38,ankle/under the pillow gun for backup. To each their own.

If you want a big chunk of lead, carry a Desert Eagle .50 AE.

I've seen one being shot before, it makes for a pretty impressive automatic hand-held cannon. When I saw it we were all at a range shooting different pistols and along with a bunch of other people and all of a sudden... BOOOOMM!! Everyone on the pistol range did a WTF an turned to see this guy who stood about 6'8" blasting away with this thing. Wish I could have had the chance to shoot it... You might kill someone by the heart attack they'd have when you pulled the trigger, lol.

friend of mine showed me his "welcome wagon" one time. It was a sawed off dbl barriel 12 ga. with the black cartridges (winchester xtremes?). He kept that one under the bed, mostly for his wife to use. No aiming, just point in the general direction and pull the trigger. Just don't pull BOTH triggers, you may loose you arm (it had one helluva kick!)

FWIW, sawed-off shotguns are illegal unless properly licensed (you can get them licensed as pistols but they have to meet certain requirements and you have to seek proper approval.

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

Lil Blue I have a DE .50 .... it's too much, and it will go through everything in the house, I also have a S&W 500.... I like them cause they are fun pieces, I would not want to have to defend myself with them. I may not be 100% correct but a sawed off is not illeagle or need to be lisc. until you get the barrel under 18 1/2" or less than 2 ft total.