Talyn
SAINT
What accessories are practical and useful and which ones are useless at best and dangerous in the worst case?
Too Much Tacticool: What is Truly Needed on a Home Defense Rifle?
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Talyn
SAINT
Home defense guns do not need infinitely adjustable stocks.
This is the only point I disagree with the author on. Adjustable stocks are much more versatile than the "old" fixed A1/A2 stocks.
I only retain fixed stocks on three ARs for specific reasons, two CMP competition rifles & my first A2. Everything else have adjustables.
This is the only point I disagree with the author on. Adjustable stocks are much more versatile than the "old" fixed A1/A2 stocks.
I only retain fixed stocks on three ARs for specific reasons, two CMP competition rifles & my first A2. Everything else have adjustables.
Recusant
Hellcat
A light on a firearm is nothing more than a beacon in dark. Be smart, call 911, hunker down behind a piece of furniture and wait for the calvary to arrive. That way you are less likely to become a victim. Should the perp enter your room before the calvary gets there then you'll have a choice to make.
Recusant
Hellcat
Snake45
Professional
Your home is big enough you can drive a vehicle inside it? RESPECT, Brothah!
and I might add a long gun with an adjustable stock is much handier when in a vehicle
Bassbob
Emissary
My “ Home defense” AR, which is about 3rd or 4th in line behind a couple handguns and shotguns, is not strictly for home defense. In fact if I grabbed an AR for home defense it would be a pistol with no stock or brace. Laser hand stop, 510c and flip ups. And a 4 lb PSA EPT trigger.
Snake45
Professional
old but still kicking
Elite
Is it me or is a 223/556 not the best call for home defense ? Seems like you’d be as likely to ventilate your neighbor’s walls also even if you hit your home invader/s center mass, yeah ? If you don’t have ur neighbors homes within 100 yards or so, fine. Even a 9mm pistol sends 124 grains of JHP out over 1100 fps & that’s easily a bad thing to my closest neighbors only 60-75 feet away!!
Someone else posted it’s smarter to call 911 to record it all, hunker down barricaded & wait 4 the threat to threaten you. 100% agree. Legally & practically tactical-wise you’d be safer unless you’ve been trained how to correctly pie corners/entryways & navigate fatal funnels aka stairways & hallways.
Says Mr Prosecutor, ‘isn’t it true you, Mr Vile Vigilante, grabbed a firearm & went LOOKING to shoot another person ??’ Blah, blah, spin, ignore facts, etc. Just cuz they’re breaking in my garage full of expensive tools doesn’t mean I SHOULD exercise deadly force despite what our emotional response to that violation might be.
Having a pump action Mossberg 590 mariner ss 9 rd cap with attached 6 rd sidesaddle shell holder & Surefire pressure activated foreend gives me peace of mind. The alternating 00 buck & birdshot shells ease my over penetration fears a little bit at least.
Guess it depends on our individual circumstances & common sense maybe.
Someone else posted it’s smarter to call 911 to record it all, hunker down barricaded & wait 4 the threat to threaten you. 100% agree. Legally & practically tactical-wise you’d be safer unless you’ve been trained how to correctly pie corners/entryways & navigate fatal funnels aka stairways & hallways.
Says Mr Prosecutor, ‘isn’t it true you, Mr Vile Vigilante, grabbed a firearm & went LOOKING to shoot another person ??’ Blah, blah, spin, ignore facts, etc. Just cuz they’re breaking in my garage full of expensive tools doesn’t mean I SHOULD exercise deadly force despite what our emotional response to that violation might be.
Having a pump action Mossberg 590 mariner ss 9 rd cap with attached 6 rd sidesaddle shell holder & Surefire pressure activated foreend gives me peace of mind. The alternating 00 buck & birdshot shells ease my over penetration fears a little bit at least.
Guess it depends on our individual circumstances & common sense maybe.
HansGruber
Ronin
Most 5.56 defensive loads will go through fewer walls than a 124gr JHP; they have thin jackets, and tend to fragment when they hit drywall or plaster, where the 9mm just makes a hole and keeps going.
old but still kicking
Elite
Hmmm okay. Wouldn’t a speedy 50ish grain bullet still pass thru windows or walls more or less intact (avoiding studs) & be a keyholing, tumbling threat even so? Don’t know so hence the questions
Sld1959
Hellcat
At the mobile home park where my sister lives a guy had a discharge with his .380 acp pistol. It went though his drywall, insulation and siding, and through siding, insulation, and drywall on both sides of the house next to it then went into a field somewhere on the other side.
I was told, second hand so take it for what it's worth, it was a jacketed hollow point. It's a mobile home sure, but damn he was lucky no one was in the path.
Snake45
Professional
Dave Chappelle, is that you? LOVED your comedy routine about buying that thing and then confronting a home-invading dirtbag with it!
BAD LANGUAGE ALERT. Jump ahead to around 3:35 to get to the shotgun part. (Mods, feel free to delete if this is deemed over the line, or whatever; no hard feelings.)
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old but still kicking
Elite
You’re not kidding. It’s one thing to intentionally aim at a perpetrator of dumbassery- ya get what ya deserve- it’s a diff story when you risk ‘collaterals’ minding their own biz.
HayesGreener
Hellcat
I have an AR suitably equipped in my home, but my primary home defense gun is an 870 with mounted light. If the 870 and 1911 can't get the job done I can fall back on the AR but it is highly unlikely
old but still kicking
Elite
I only wish I was that funny !! How smokes, bro that actually brought the wife & daughter in asking me what was so hilariously funny !! Even my dog was side eying me, wondering what had me cracking up !! Thx that was grrrrr-eat !!!Dave Chappelle, is that you? LOVED your comedy routine about buying that thing and then confronting a home-invading dirtbag with it!
BAD LANGUAGE ALERT. Jump ahead to around 3:35 to get to the shotgun part.