Best gun for home defense?

[Chicxulub]

good locks and a well trained dog

Hard to argue with the efficacy of a well trained dog!

I had a fully trained K9 as my personal dog. He was trained and willing to make combat at the drop of a hat. He was also of the most steady temperament and even personality you could hope to meet; he was able to go anywhere and was approachable by anyone, but he didn't lend himself to making friends indiscriminately. He was IMO the perfect dog. A big teddy bear with his family but a fearsome wall of slobber and teeth to an intruder.

Twice he has deterred breakins. When I was stationed in Ft Sill Oklahoma, I ended up living in a less than savory part of Lawton. My friend Shawn came over and we did bite work in clear view of the low income housing at the end of the street. You could always tell when an individual of ill repute walked past the house; they went out of the way to avoid walking in the street on the other side of the road! The craziest thing about this is a year into my time at Ft Sill, I bought a house in a better part of town. The original house I was living in was broken into, the day after I moved out!

Sadly my boy passed last November. I hope to get another one of similar bloodlines sometime soon.

The view bad guys got! He was actually barking on the command of "speak" to get this picture lol

And after doing some bite work with the low income housing in the background!

 

[krichardson]

I got my wife a maverick 88 I picked up at walmart for less than $200... its made by mossberg, and might as well be called the mossberg 499 it has the same specs as a 500, and is so much a like most of the parts are interchangeable. Very few differences, example : trigger guard on 500 is made of a metal component where the 88 has a plastic trigger guard. You can google the other differences, but for a weapon thats only going to be shot for practice, and for the use of home defense I'd cheap it out with the maverick 88.

I never understood the point of the whole Maverick/Mossberg deal..

 

[Tskstorm]

I never understood the point of the whole Maverick/Mossberg deal..

Think Lincoln/Mercury, Lexus/Toyota. At the end of the day made by the same people to do the same thing.

 

[krichardson]

Think Lincoln/Mercury, Lexus/Toyota. At the end of the day made by the same people to do the same thing.

I gotcha but those are the car companies luxury brands,the Mossberg 500 already is relatively cheap compared to some shotgun brands so where does the Maverick brand come in at?


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[Chicxulub]

I gotcha but those are the car companies luxury brands,the Mossberg 500 already is relatively cheap compared to some shotgun brands so where does the Maverick brand come in at?


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Maverick really comes in with their ~$300 new O/U shotgun. There's not much money saved in the pump, but in the relaxed regulation and QC in that O/U they're really saving money.

 

[J.Lake]

Great looking dogs

 

[F1 VET]

Hard to argue with the efficacy of a well trained dog!

I had a fully trained K9 as my personal dog. He was trained and willing to make combat at the drop of a hat. He was also of the most steady temperament and even personality you could hope to meet; he was able to go anywhere and was approachable by anyone, but he didn't lend himself to making friends indiscriminately. He was IMO the perfect dog. A big teddy bear with his family but a fearsome wall of slobber and teeth to an intruder.

Twice he has deterred breakins. When I was stationed in Ft Sill Oklahoma, I ended up living in a less than savory part of Lawton. My friend Shawn came over and we did bite work in clear view of the low income housing at the end of the street. You could always tell when an individual of ill repute walked past the house; they went out of the way to avoid walking in the street on the other side of the road! The craziest thing about this is a year into my time at Ft Sill, I bought a house in a better part of town. The original house I was living in was broken into, the day after I moved out!

Sadly my boy passed last November. I hope to get another one of similar bloodlines sometime soon.

The view bad guys got! He was actually barking on the command of "speak" to get this picture lol

And after doing some bite work with the low income housing in the background!

Beautiful! And scary

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[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

Sorry I should've added that they should get something like a .38 n hp rds

Personally I have a glock 19 15 rd law enforcement mag with one in chamber with subsonic hp rds. I know they won't go thru a wall n I keep them in a passcode safe next to my bed.

If they will stop a bad guy they will go through a wall. Esp heavy slow rounds. If u want minimal wall penetration, light and fast is the way to go.

Because a lot can happen in the minute it takes to locate ammo, load (shotguns load slow), rack, find the key for trigger lock, fumble with that... Then hope the guy isn't in your kids bedroom by then. If you are going to keep a pistol for this application, a one gun safe in the night stand would be ideal. My shotgun stays loaded, unlocked, and semi hidden, though.

Exactly!!

 

[Wiggles92]

If they're new to guns then a pistol caliber carbine is the way to go. Its a decent bit shorter than a shotgun, holds more ammo than a shotgun, has less recoil than a shotgun, holds more ammo than a shotgun, is easier to aim than a handgun, is more accurate than either of the two, and typically costs less or just as much as either option.

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[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

If they're new to guns then a pistol caliber carbine is the way to go. Its a decent bit shorter than a shotgun, holds more ammo than a shotgun, has less recoil than a shotgun, holds more ammo than a shotgun, is easier to aim than a handgun, is more accurate than either of the two, and typically costs less or just as much as either option.

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This aint a bad suggestion too. The hi point carbine is a good choise. Get it in 9mm, load it down with a flavor of winchestor LEO ammo(rangers, bonded, ranger T, PDX) or something like corbon solid copper or leigh defence ME or CF line. Man those CF, mmmmmmmm.

Of course plenty of quality ammo for cheaper.