Heres what I use to "spread" the love to intruders!

Soon to come: Ghost ring/tactical sights & an on-board light!
maybe an M-9 bayonet (you know for Armageddon! )
speed loaders would be cool, dang this is like my truck!

 

Shotgun w/#6 birdshot.

A short barreled one, makes it easier to swing in close quarters. When empty, makes a fairly descent club.

Can get a nice one with different length barrels so you can use it for hunting, sporting clays, home defense.

Shoot a person with #6 birdshot at any range under 50' and if he is wearing body armor, it will knock him down and put a hurting on them, if no body armor, well guess maybe he should have taken up another form of employment. Bonus is that sheet rock will stop #6 to the point you shouldn't have to be very concerned about getting your neighbors or family members.

My personal choice of my home defense weapon is my Remington 100 automatic. 20" barrel, magazine extension, holds 7 rounds, equipped with a flashlight and loaded with #6. If I go investigating something going bump in the night, shotgun with a round already chambered in my hand, pistol goes in my back pocket, just in case, cell phone goes in another pocket, wife stands by with landline telephone and Buck (our Bulldog, garbage disposal system, early warning alarm and family member) and I go see whats going on.

BS about warning someone by chambering a round in an attempt to scare them. All it does is give them and edge. I find you in my house in the night and you are not an invited guest, there is an excellent chance I will take appropriate action without any warning.

Practice with it, be familiar with how it works and the results you can expect. Consider safety, teach all family members firearm safety, would be really bad to accidentally kill or injure an innocent person. Have other firearms available but that shotgun is first to come to hand in a home defense situation.

 

Where did you go for the advanced CCW course? How much and how long was it. I would be very interested in that.

Also, I was thinking more about this today. There are two possibilities when it comes to someone getting into your house. If they are after your stuff then they are going to wait till you are not there, break in and take it and leave. You being there slows them down and a straight burglar doesn't want that confrontation. The other possibility is they break in when your there. At this point, lights are probably on, or cars are in the driveway things like that, they know your there. If they come in your house when your there, they are looking for more then your stuff.

 

Yup, either that or they aren't afraid of you. At which point they are armed, on something, or both. Your life is in danger big time if they chance it while your there. And unless they camp out side the police will be a mop-up squad and thats about it.

I know a guy who has a gun hidden in each room of his house.(keeps an all stainless in the shower! ) Never know where you will be when "stuff goes down" he says. Full time carry for adults is the answer to some of this.

I have made up my mind that unless I need to for the sake of people (I don't have any kids yet have to adjust the plan later) the master bedroom is my best pace for defense, wife jumps in the bathtub with the pistol/phone with door locked. and I take cover behind the bed. And call out my orders to the "perp" if somebody comes into the "kill zone" there wont be any hesitation.

 

My 500 "Cruiser" 18 1/2" barrel (replaced the pistol grip with a Speed-feed stock)
Functional....without being too "tacti-cool"

 

Nice. I have an old Winchester 1200 Defender that's plain (KISS). Not into that 'Mall Ninja' stuff......

MikeyB

 

Also, you could pic up some of the videos from Jim Cirillo, Massad Ayoob, or some of the others to give you ideas on home defense, etc.

 

12 Gauge Shotty is the only way to go.

 

I bought the S&W Sigma and don't regret it, even though this pistol doesn't get much respect from handgun hobbyists. It always works and the internal design makes it very unlikely to go off accidentally. No safeties except for the heavy trigger, which I view as a plus because there's nothing to think about in a mechanical sense.

I took a full-day concealed carry class and I recommend something like that if available to you. It covered legal issues as well as technical issues and psychological issues. I don't plan on carrying the Sigma but it would be a pretty good "house gun".

 

Or Jeff Cooper. I havent had much chance to read his writing but I hear its good.

 

If I was going to bet my life on a shotgun (for home defense) it would at least be a Remington 870 pump.
The 870 is built like a brick "out" house compared to the Mossberg.

I have owned several of both over the years and Mossberg's seemed much more flimsy to me. They also suffered from the breach blowing open when firing hotter loaded shells like Magnum's and 3" etc (even when rated for such).

For not much more money you can get the Remington.

If you really want to step it up with a scatter gun check out the Russian Saiga (AK47) shotgun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmMNHSVR4I

I am much on the page of a pistol for immediate home defense.........

 

I would get a Benelli if it were me. Benelli pumps arent any more expensive than any thing else thats the way I would go.

 

Lets see... mossburg 500, remington 870 mag, or that tactical benelli as mentioned above... Or pretty much any better model 12ga that will take a 3 inch shell. Pump action shotguns with the safety on are pretty kid safe, especially if it's stored in a high place where they can't find it.


I'd buy from a pawn shop, they don't really break much and are a dime a dozen. Shorten the barrel or buy one for it so you can swing it better (a must do). The 500 moss and 870 use the same barrel IIRC, you can get it at academy for $80 if you don't feel like sawing off your stocker.

The "tactical" models will cost so much more than the regular get up for not much more of an advantage IMO.


USE BUCK SHOT! You want to take them down, not just give them a flesh wound.
Bird shot won't even take down a coyote at 15 feet (takes 5 shots of #7 ask me how I know).

 

winner! I think that is close to the best combo.

 

[QUOTE=Rednecktastic;1869034] Pump action shotguns with the safety on are pretty kid safe, especially if it's stored in a high place where they can't find it.QUOTE]

I take a different approach, I was raised with guns standing in the corners of the house, and I do the same with a few (I do have a safe too) but my children, 6 and 8, were taught from day one not to mess with them without an adult. I let them handle guns, and shoot .22s, and the only problem I have EVER seen, is from other children who DON'T get to mess with them, I guess it is the curiousity factor. I have even heard my girls tell other children not to touch them, as no adults were in the same room. Also, they know that whenever you pick one up, first thing to do is check to see if it is loaded, and NOT to let the barrel swing it a direction were someone is.
Guess this could be new topic, and not trying to start an arguement.

Also, buy a QUALITY gun. I think your life is worth it. As I said before, get familiar with it, gain TRUST in it, if you don't trust it, why have it, as it may let you down when you need it most. On Remington 870s, have they fixed the trigger assemblies in the Express series? I have had 4 or 5 that had shoddy trigger assemblies, which I have NEVER had with the more expensive Wingmaster series.