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03-06-2008, 09:26 AM
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No a 357 wouldn't be too much. And a 6" barrel lends itself nicely to accuracy. With 158grain semijacketed softpoint, or a good 158 grain hollowpoint you can take care of buisness. I prefere a semijacket myself but each to his or her own.
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03-09-2008, 08:37 AM
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It is my opinion that a 6" barreled .357 revolver is an excellent home defense choice, especially if you already own one.
The revolver is much easier to handle in a narrow hallway than a 24" + long shotgun. Also it is easier to conceal in a nighstand near your bed. Some people believe "you can't miss" with a shotgun, but that isn't true inside a home. The pattern will only be a few inches wide inside the house, and you can miss with a shotgun just as easily as with a handgun. Most people anguish too much over the choce of a home defense weapon. Use whatever you already own, and just practice a few times a year at your local shooting facility. JERRY
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03-10-2008, 07:55 PM
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gold40,
You got it right! My club offers home defense classes and we get all sorts of folks. We like to think our students leave our club better for our training. Many have NEVER fired their "Home Defense" guns and about 20% would not fire due to bad ammo or defective guns. Adam
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04-05-2008, 01:06 PM
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Have any of you ever fired a 12 gauge shot gun in a small room?
Only once for me, and I couldn't hear anything except nearby train whistles for a week. The blast completely disoriented me for a couple of seconds. I still think a shotgun is the best deterrent possible, and very effective if it has to be used, but one should do the experiment so you won't be as shocked as I was the first time it happened.
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04-05-2008, 01:27 PM
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L. Cooper,
You make an excellent point about noise in a small room, from shotguns or handguns. I prefer a handgun for my house gun and have a hearing preservation drill so I can hear other assailants entering the house after the first is down. I hold my handgun in my strong (right) hand, roll my head to the right and cover that ear on my shoulder. I put my weak hand over my left ear and blast as needed. One MUST preserve their hearing to hear other bad guys coming in. Since we may not have time to install earphones or plugs, I use my preservation drill. Adam
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04-05-2008, 04:32 PM
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I have to add that every time I see a gun fight in a tiny space on television I remember my little experiment. And I cringe. I sometimes worry that I would have a bad flinch in a real gunfight from just that one shot.
It seems television stars are a lot more immune to muzzle blast than I am. Either that or ............. Naaah. They wouldn't be making it look different than it really is, would they?
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04-05-2008, 06:53 PM
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a 357 with some mild 38s and any one in your house can handel it.
I say youse what you have and get good with it. There are lots of guys that have guns doing double duty they just cant afford them an there is nothing wrong with it.
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05-28-2008, 04:40 AM
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I agree with a 12 ga. pump. Residential robberies are seldom performed by individuals and I have seven rounds in the tube of my pump - easy to reach and my wife and I are extremely familiar with it. It is easy to point in the right direction and harder to point in the wrong direction than a pistol. A 357 mag will go through a person, leaving them wounded and keep traveling through the outside walls of my house and that of my neighbors. The shotgun pellets usually stop in the perp but even a clean miss will be stopped by the exterior walls.
Yep, he or they will be in pieces and puddles all over the hardwood floors but I am sure they will never terrorize anyone else ever again. I can feel good about that. ________ Hydrocodone Rehab Forum Last edited by PaulS; 04-03-2011 at 03:40 PM.
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05-30-2008, 08:27 PM
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A revolver is just to get to your primary weapon. I use a 1894 marlin 44 mag. short carbine and without the appearance of those new assualt weapons for the lawyers to pick apart.
After all everyone has seen a movie of a western rancher protecting home and family with a lever action.
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09-28-2008, 02:05 PM
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Whether the 357 mag is too much for home defense depends on how your house is built, and with frame&drywall, or more substantual walls, and if there are many in the family in other rooms in the house! A 357mag will shoot through several walls covered with drywall. One must think about the kids in the other room.
IMO the best home defense weapon is a 3" 20 ga pump shotgun with an 18" barrel and an extended magazine. I don't like the buckshot for the same reason I don't like the 357mag for home defense, it penetrates too well. I load with 7 1/2 birdshot. At the longest distance in most houses,the pattern will be no more thah 10" down a hall, and in most rooms, it will hit like a solid 3" chunk of lead, and will penetrate the first layer of drywall, but will not penetrate the drywall into the next room with enough velocity to do damage. the pistol can be used as a back-up if you need it, but the primary in my home is the shotgun!
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