Best firearm for home protection? I realize a lot is personal choice involved?

[kenmac]

My home protection gun is a mossburg shockwave

 

[shooterdon]

Speak the universal language, Jack the action of a pump. I've séen bird load kill a grown deer. Revolver in addition. I've seen autos hang up a lot. I'm speaking from qualifying twice a year with law enforcement. I had the only wheel gun. Half the other people had jams. I got rid of all mine.

Really bad advice. Take some good training....I did.

Your shotgun should be loaded and all you need is to flick the safety off. Racking tells the intruder where your are and that is not a good thing to do. It might make a sober thief run away, but maybe not someone high on drugs or someone who wants to kill you. Plus you have one less shot when starting with an empty chamber.

Most LEO’s have minimal defensive training and are best ignored on this subject. Your example proves it. Their lives depend on their weapons and yet the ones you shot with had a lot of jams. They are either stupid or lazy...maybe both.

 

[two_bit_score]

Racking tells the intruder where your are and that is not a good thing to do. It might make a sober thief run away, but maybe not someone high on drugs or someone who wants to kill you. Plus you have one less shot when starting with an empty chamber.

I think it’s correct to assume that if someone comes into your home illegally, especially at nighttime, that they intend you harm if you are there. You risk your life unnecessarily by hoping they will flee at the sound of a racking shotgun.

 

[Tomtint]

A friend of mine who is a LEO has given us this advice. ..If a intruder is in our house, We should move to the bedroom and close the door if possible. Make it loud and clear that we are armed and have called the police. At that point if the intruder turns the door know, ..Unload everything you have into them and make certain they are no longer breathing before the detectives show up. The mentality behind this is that if they know you are armed, and the cops are in route..And still want to approach you, Nothing good is going to happen. Your life is in fact in danger. We have several handguns, My favorite is my Sig 380 Followed by the 44 Magnum which are both within reach at night time.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I'm already going to be taking up tension on the trigger before I even let the intruder know I'm here. But with 4 labs, I doubt it's going to be a quiet intervention anyway. If the intruder is armed from what I can tell initially, it's going to be "BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG." Then, "Stop, freeze, quit moving.... BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG...I said quit moving...BANG, BANG, BANG.... "

Or something to that effect anyway.

 

[Hay Dude]

I thought the new procedure was to try to shoot them in the leg???? You know to injure them? Maybe a pink taser? lol
I do think its best to keep the shotgun loaded with safety on safe unless you have kids. To much critical time lost loading
Kids make it more complicated. Probably keep the clip loaded but separate. I keep the 9 on the night stand and the Stoeger next to it. My wife can handle either.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

The best firearm for personal protection is the one you have with you at the time. All of the finer points become moot in that moment.

 

[shooterdon]

A friend of mine who is a LEO has given us this advice. ..If a intruder is in our house, We should move to the bedroom and close the door if possible. Make it loud and clear that we are armed and have called the police. At that point if the intruder turns the door know, ..Unload everything you have into them and make certain they are no longer breathing before the detectives show up. The mentality behind this is that if they know you are armed, and the cops are in route..And still want to approach you, Nothing good is going to happen. Your life is in fact in danger. We have several handguns, My favorite is my Sig 380 Followed by the 44 Magnum which are both within reach at night time.

That is good advice.

About 50 years ago I shot with the Captain of the SWAT team for a large city. This was well before the surge in defensive training classes. He was an interesting man and a very skilled marksman. One day I was talking about shooting an intruder to injure him but not kill him (boy was i naive then). He looked at me and said, "If you have to shoot, kill the bastard."

Another "interesting" fellow was the guy who was the instructor at a four day defensive handgun class I took at Front Sight. His "normal" work, as well as his wife's "normal" work was providing protection to those who needed it. You gain a lot of insight when talking to people who train to, and have had to kill others.

 

[Doughknob]

Really bad advice. Take some good training....I did.

Your shotgun should be loaded and all you need is to flick the safety off. Racking tells the intruder where your are and that is not a good thing to do. It might make a sober thief run away, but maybe not someone high on drugs or someone who wants to kill you. Plus you have one less shot when starting with an empty chamber.

Most LEO’s have minimal defensive training and are best ignored on this subject. Your example proves it. Their lives depend on their weapons and yet the ones you shot with had a lot of jams. They are either stupid or lazy...maybe both.

All that is you opinion.

I WANT the intruder to hear that slide cycle! I think it is really good advice. It gives the intruder a chance to run before a shootout starts.

 

[Hay Dude]

All that is you opinion.

I WANT the intruder to hear that slide cycle! I think it is really good advice. It gives the intruder a chance to run before a shootout starts.

If theyre in your house and you are home, its about a 90% chance they arent there to steal, they are there for YOU.
Thieves are mostly active when you are not home as most dont want to get hurt or killed for a bottle of Vicodin or your wifes jewelry.
The classic cycling of the gun is mostly a Hollywood construct.