UPDATE: POLL: Which would you rather have for home defense?

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: Wnh5001
automatic guided laser, heat sensitive w/ superior ai.

well i have wifi virus spreader and heat hiding body armor!

sup now?

 

[BoomerD]

For home defense, IMO, a shotgut is far better than a handgun. Most people, in the heat of the moment, get nervous or scared, and their aim goes to crap. The aim with a shotgun doesn't need to be QUITE as accurate as a handgun, because it cuts a wider swath. Not that it isa good excuse for being inaccurate, but it is realistic.

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
For home defense, IMO, a shotgut is far better than a handgun. Most people, in the heat of the moment, get nervous or scared, and their aim goes to crap. The aim with a shotgun doesn't need to be QUITE as accurate as a handgun, because it cuts a wider swath. Not that it isa good excuse for being inaccurate, but it is realistic.

if a intruder heard you cocking your shogun, they would run.

 

[preslove]

The sound of you chambering the round in your 870 will strike fear in your imaginary burglar.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: BoomerD
For home defense, IMO, a shotgut is far better than a handgun. Most people, in the heat of the moment, get nervous or scared, and their aim goes to crap. The aim with a shotgun doesn't need to be QUITE as accurate as a handgun, because it cuts a wider swath. Not that it isa good excuse for being inaccurate, but it is realistic.

if a intruder heard you cocking your shogun, they would run.

If they had any sense... but if they're breaking into my home in the first place... how smart do you think they are? I'd rather just do the whole world a favor and turn the guy into a heaping bloody pile of leaky meat.

 

[everman]

I'd rather use non-leathal beanbag rounds in a shotgun, I wouldn't want to have a mess to clean up.

 

[BoomerD]

And if you're close enough when you "pop the cap", a spray of "pink mist"...

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: BoomerD
For home defense, IMO, a shotgut is far better than a handgun. Most people, in the heat of the moment, get nervous or scared, and their aim goes to crap. The aim with a shotgun doesn't need to be QUITE as accurate as a handgun, because it cuts a wider swath. Not that it isa good excuse for being inaccurate, but it is realistic.

if a intruder heard you cocking your shogun, they would run.

If they had any sense... but if they're breaking into my home in the first place... how smart do you think they are? I'd rather just do the whole world a favor and turn the guy into a heaping bloody pile of leaky meat.

Fine and dandy, but your shotgun will just be added to the list of stolen items If your not home to wield it. dogs are a PITA and a huge responsibility, but we have good friends who house sit or check on the dog when we are away, and nobody ever messed with our stuff when the trained dog was on duty. 24/7/365 FTW!

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: jagec
Can't go wrong with the 870.

Yep. Gotta love the 870. There's no real reason to wait to be gifted one, as they are quite inexpensive -- less than $300.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: skyking

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: BoomerD
For home defense, IMO, a shotgut is far better than a handgun. Most people, in the heat of the moment, get nervous or scared, and their aim goes to crap. The aim with a shotgun doesn't need to be QUITE as accurate as a handgun, because it cuts a wider swath. Not that it isa good excuse for being inaccurate, but it is realistic.

if a intruder heard you cocking your shogun, they would run.

If they had any sense... but if they're breaking into my home in the first place... how smart do you think they are? I'd rather just do the whole world a favor and turn the guy into a heaping bloody pile of leaky meat.

Fine and dandy, but your shotgun will just be added to the list of stolen items If your not home to wield it. dogs are a PITA and a huge responsibility, but we have good friends who house sit or check on the dog when we are away, and nobody ever messed with our stuff when the trained dog was on duty. 24/7/365 FTW!

I don't follow your argument. The purpose of having a firearm for home defense is to protect yours and your family's lives, not your property. If it gets stolen while you're not home, who cares? Just report it and get another one -- they're cheap.

 

[zanieladie]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Even burglars are humans. Pepper spray FTW!

Not if they enter MY house uninvited!

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: zanieladie

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Even burglars are humans. Pepper spray FTW!

Not if they enter MY house uninvited!

Exactly. When they enter the house invited, they become piles of leaky meat

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
For home defense, IMO, a shotgut is far better than a handgun. Most people, in the heat of the moment, get nervous or scared, and their aim goes to crap. The aim with a shotgun doesn't need to be QUITE as accurate as a handgun, because it cuts a wider swath. Not that it isa good excuse for being inaccurate, but it is realistic.

How big is your home and how far away do you think you'll be firing from?

I ask because the pattern of buckshot in the average home would be no wider than a couple inches (2-3 inches at 20 feet or so with an 18 inch barrel). This does little to nothing to improve aim. At 10 feet or so, the average distance in a home defense situation, the pattern is 2 inches or less.

It's a huge myth that buckshot starts to spread by any appreciable amount at any distance one would be aiming in a home/self defense situation.

In short, a shotgun will not improve your chances of hitting your target at short range. The shot just does not have enough distancen to spread out.

 

[deftron]

Bill Murray

 

[acemcmac]

bump

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Fiberwire and a pair of silverballers with a red laser, scope type 2 and silencers type 2.

maybe throw in a syringe sedative/poison.

That will earn you a silent killer rating

 

[DainBramaged]

If it was a tight quartered house, I'd take the .45 1911. If I had a bit of room to move around, I'd take the shottie.

 

[JEDI]

whats a 10 gauge autoloader?

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: JEDI
whats a 10 gauge autoloader?

AFAIK, autoloader and semiautomatic are used interchangably with shotguns

http://www.impactguns.com/store/rem_sp10.html

I think I just should have started a new thread

Nobody has noticed my update yet

 

[AbAbber2k]

Something very intimidating about a .45 hand cannon.

 

[thecrecarc]

a taser set to "kill"

 

[meltdown75]

Wow.

 

[OSX]

High-Power CO2 infrared laser. I should build one of those.

 

[PottedMeat]

"AK47 the very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfcuker in the room - accept no substitute"

 

[2Xtreme21]

Nothing like a Soviet Assault Rifle to quell those nasty burglers.

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