Posted on 10/20/2012 3:50:05 PM PDT by Magnatron
We are moving to North Carolina next year from New Jersey. New Jersey has some real draconian gun laws, so I hesitated while here to buy anything aside from the .38 special I have in the house for protection. I didn't even bring my hunting guns from Michigan because of the same laws. My understanding is that North Carolina has gun laws much easier to deal with, so when we move, I'd like to bring my guns from Michigan for hunting, as well as equip our home for home defense.
I travel quite a bit for work, and I'd like to have available weapons for my wife to access if the necessity every arose. My intention is to have her fully trained on the use of these weapons, including techniques necessary for her safety and protection.
What guns would you recommend for a 105 pound woman to have available? Also, we have a 7-year-old in the house. What safe-keeping devices would you recommend to keep the guns in that would provide instant access for her should she ever need to use them?
A baseball bat or stick or metal rod or kitchen knife handy at each door.
A chain bolt at each entrance.
A “safe room” to retreat to, with heavier duty stuff at the ready.
It’s a chilling moment when a racking slide is ignored. Never count on that noise to become a magic fear/obedience ray. Some bad guys are too stoned or jaded to care. Sme MS13 type will laugh and start walking towards you. If you counted on that slide rack to scare him, now YOU are the one behiind the curve because what you expected, didn’t happen.
As for missing with a shotgun, it’s VERY easy to do.
The pattern on a cylinder bore is about an inch for every yard from the target.
Across a typical room about 12 wide, think of a pattern about the size of a fist.
Inside most houses a 15 foot distance between you and an offender is a rarity.
Yes, with a shotgun you had better aim, or you can most certainly can and will miss.
That and tell the little ones to tell their pediatricians that the family lost all of the guns in a boating accident
“Retreating” to a “safe room”? No way. If your state has adopted the Castle Doctrine, it is better to remove the intruder from the gene pool than to “retreat”.
“Retreating” to a “safe room”? No way. If your state has adopted the Castle Doctrine, it is better to remove the intruder from the gene pool than to “retreat”.
“Stevie Wonder can hit a target w/ a 12ga & buck/birdshot, at 10-15ft”
Think so? 10 to 15 feet? That’s a 3 to 5 inch pattern with the least restrictive choke possible. (cylinder bore)
Always good to have a “plan b”. That’s the idea of a safe room.
I’ve missed some doozies, up close, going slow, and in good light.
BTW, my go-to weapon for home defense is a pump-action Benelli Nova. It’s a 12 gauge chambered for up to 3.5” Magnums. I have extended the magazine, added a tactical light and an in-line mercury tube inertial recoil reducer (mounts inside the butt stock)...
really takes the bite out of firing a round.
Yes, Mossberg 500 or 590, loaded with #4 Buckshot will suffice.
You, your wife and child need to practice where the “safe room” room is. Upon hearing or feeling there is an intruder, the command “safer room” or “code black” is given. Everyone goes to safer room. Head count is performed. All accounted for, stand your ground with weapon from here. NEVER pursue intruder. Wait them out.
Head count does not add up, you or your wife, goes to room retrieves child returns to safe room or alternate.
Study it and practice it.
They racking of a 12 gauge has dispersed people from my front lawn.
I have had a Rem 870 18” pistol grip since growing up in Detroit. Extension is nice for the two extra shots.
I always loaded 00 and rifled slugs
Racking the slide is passe.
I prefer to appear in BVD’s, a Stetson, and Nocona boots, spin cocking a Winchester ‘92 like the Rifleman...
Now that says “Get Off My Lawn.”
Another northerner moving down to North Carolina! Is it our wonderful weather, better economy, lack of insane white hating liberals, or friendly people?
I'm being relocated by my company, and we're looking at the Charlotte area right now (although Raleigh is not completely off the table).
Coming originally from northern Michigan, I'm not sure I'll have too much adjusting to do. Northern Michigan is a very rural, very conservative, very "southern" part of the country.
FReepmail me, and if you guys move near Raleigh, she’ll train your Missus; trips to the shooting range, the works; just to help out.
I might just take you up on that. Stay tuned, and thanks for the offer!
Gun safe? I grew up in farm country. There was a loaded shotgun in the kitchen, two or three in different parts of the barn and out sheds.
By the time we were old enough to walk, we knew that you didn't put your finger in the electric outlet, you didn't mess with kitchen knives, and you didn't TOUCH the weapons.
Discipline is the absolute BEST safe. Oh yea, when we were kids, curiosity got us too. But all we had to do was just ask any adult, and oh sure, out to the back yard you went. You fired the weapon, it kicked your butt, slapped you upside the head, busted your shoulder, and then insult to injury, you were "taught" how to CLEAN it.
And that last piece of the puzzle was the kicker. If you shot it, you cleaned it. Kids don't like cleaning things like that. Once or twice and you were cured of ever wanting to touch the damn thing ever again.
All the neighbor kids had the same upbringing. Messing with a firearm, any firearm, was just outside of our thinking.
12 gauge shotgun:
Remington 870 w/ 8 round, synthetic stock (may want to buy separate short stock for wife’s quick use), 18 inch barrell
beaded sight, pump action. Sweet. Got one for my wife ... Sleeps well when I’m gone with that nearby ready to go... She loves it.
You described my childhood wonderfully.
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