Posted on 09/14/2024 4:39:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In many cases you will do less overall damage to the house with a shotgun. A bullet may go through both sides of a wall, or downstairs through the floor. It may even hit a loved one on the other side of the wall.
If close enough to the target intruder; the house will take zero damage with a shotgun.
At chez Buttons there’s 409 spray cleaner for bugs, .410 for larger pests. You can’t miss with either one. Prepares them to be dispatched by a 95-pound chick.
A 20-guage Mossberg 7-shot pump gun. The sound of the pump lever jacking in a slug is pretty threatening to a home invader, or even several of them.
No matter how much home defense is set up, if the invader does not care how much noise is made, most domiciles can be breached within a minute or so.
Just ask the FBI.
Excellent graphic!
AA-12 . All stainless-steel, fully automatic , recoilless , 12 gauge shotgun with the 30-round drum magazine. Mounted to a drone.
Glock with a tactical light is what I recommend.
Shotgun takes two hands. If you have to open a door, control a child, be on the phone with 911, turn on a light, etc., you have one-handed a moment when it is out of control, and, perhaps, more vulnerable to being snatched by a lurking perp.
A handgun can be kept close to the body where it is better under control in a physical confrontation. Shotgun is risky in that regard because its length makes it vulnerable when in the “ready” position.
Tac light on a Glock can be activited with the trigger finger, flashed on and off, or simply turned on or off, all while your weak hand is free to do whatever.
I mention Glock, but other pistol/tac light combos probably work the same way.
Hand gun and an arm shield.
What’s all this talk of racking the shotgun about? My first shot requires no racking. When I’ve already shot the intruder, I don’t think racking it to load the next shell adds much fear at that point.
“Shoot here.”
I keep all of my shotguns loaded and my highly trained doberman happy. However, for home protection and that of my neighbors, I use #6 shot. The reason is to keep the shot in the house instead of penetrating the walls of a neighbor.
I also have a psychedelic lighting and sound system that will confuse anyone that enters un-announced, especially the dope head. The dobe will have no problem with them what-so-ever!!
I have a Taurus Judge loaded up with #6 shot. The spread at 3 feet is about 3 feet.
I’ve pondered getting a shotgun. I suppose it would be useful if you are dealing with more than one bad guy who are standing together in the same general area. Happy with my 9MM but if Harris wins I’m buying more.
under 10yds they’re all the same...
According to Dad, in NYC a steel door is a challenge and a clear admission that there’s a prize inside.
Here in PA, we have signs like “Break in tonight and you will be here in the morning” and “trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot twice.” Even four-legged critters understand that racking is code for the command to about-face. Nearly all two-legged intruders are scared by the sight of security cameras. You would have to be very jacked up to break and enter.
I have already learned (twice) that suspicious persons wandering around outside my house, checking windows and doors, are more likely to be parole officers, lost and looking to serve a warrant on someone a mile away on a street with a similar name.
Here we are more worried about deadbeat tenants, code officers, and potholes, than about burglars. But if it comes to that, we say, “Call 911 — for cleanup.”
Colt Python .357 Magnum. Decisions, decisions...
It obviously depends where you live.
If you own a home near a high crime area..the first thing I would ask is..why do you live a high crime area and why would you stay?
Otherwise, many people go there whole lives without a serious threat to their well being.
IOW I’d risk some damage to my walls and maybe some furnishings and blast away with double barrel. Good to have some back up weapon,too. Just in case there is more than one or two creeps creeping around.
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