So I wanted to buy a shotgun...

[ree ree robusto]

Can't go wrong with a Benelli! Semi-auto's jam at times. Might want to consider pump...just my .02.

 

[Sunshine86]

Just a little Saiga porn (yes, those are indeed blue tiger stripes on the receiver cover).

 

[360]

Just a little Saiga porn (yes, those are indeed blue tiger stripes on the receiver cover).

Yeah...ummm...you need to go buy some krylon and paint that thing right 'cuz blue tiger stripes are ghey :sign: :laugh:

 

[360]

I always caution people when they say their main home defense weapon is a pistol. If your using a pistol make sure your using something like glasser rounds as your primary load. My buddy used a pistol for home defense and needed to discharge his weapon. The slug passed through 3 walls and logged in his wooden fence outside. The shotgun is a much better home defense weapon as it won't penetrate as far and most people don't have the training to hit a target with a pistol when hopped up on adrenaline. Shotgun gives you a wider cone of fire.

Very good point and one I can agree with. If you are going to use a pistol as a home defense weapon I always suggest spending the money and going through a couple of classes. It always amazes me that people will spend lots of money on the gun, the ammo, the fancy holster but won't spend the money on training or don't do any at home training with the weapon. Because when shit hits the fan training kicks in! Ask me how I know

 

[PhatCat]

Very good point and one I can agree with. If you are going to use a pistol as a home defense weapon I always suggest spending the money and going through a couple of classes. It always amazes me that people will spend lots of money on the gun, the ammo, the fancy holster but won't spend the money on training or don't do any at home training with the weapon. Because when shit hits the fan training kicks in! Ask me how I know

Ok. I'll bite. How do you know?

 

[Sunshine86]

Yeah...ummm...you need to go buy some krylon and paint that thing right 'cuz blue tiger stripes are ghey :sign: :laugh:

Unfortunately, it isn't my gun.

 

[Gawl]

Very good point and one I can agree with. If you are going to use a pistol as a home defense weapon I always suggest spending the money and going through a couple of classes. It always amazes me that people will spend lots of money on the gun, the ammo, the fancy holster but won't spend the money on training or don't do any at home training with the weapon. Because when shit hits the fan training kicks in! Ask me how I know

Ok. I'll bite. How do you know?

I'm going out on a limb and saying that by his location he's a soldier

 

[360]

Very good point and one I can agree with. If you are going to use a pistol as a home defense weapon I always suggest spending the money and going through a couple of classes. It always amazes me that people will spend lots of money on the gun, the ammo, the fancy holster but won't spend the money on training or don't do any at home training with the weapon. Because when shit hits the fan training kicks in! Ask me how I know

Ok. I'll bite. How do you know?

I'm going out on a limb and saying that by his location he's a soldier

You know if I had been holding a contest Gawl would be the winner. Good situational awareness. :laugh:


Just giving you a hard time PhatCat but Gawl is correct. Two deployments in Iraq and things happen. Everything from a truck breaking down in the middle of the city, a truck getting blown up, or getting in a firefight. Everytime we, my platoon, have had something happen we have reacted very well and owe it all to training that we had pounded in our heads to the point we were sick of it. Just my .02 YMMV

 

[Devil Doc]

People make bad decisions under stress. That's why the military trains endlessly. You fall back on your training in stressful situations. It's automatic. That's why if you're going to use a handgun to defend you and your family, you need to train. Not once or twice but regularly. So you do what you need to do automatically without having to think about it.

Doc.

 

[KayakinBoy]

I've been around guns all my life. When I turned 18, I was given a membership to NRA. I have a Para Ordnance .45, and my Grandfather's old Remington 1100 12 gauge. I have shot that gun too many times as a kid to count, and love having it. It's never failed or jammed, and the one time I've seen one jam, it was the user's fault for putting it back together wrong after cleaning it. One of the best shotguns I've ever fired.

 

[PhatCat]

Very good point and one I can agree with. If you are going to use a pistol as a home defense weapon I always suggest spending the money and going through a couple of classes. It always amazes me that people will spend lots of money on the gun, the ammo, the fancy holster but won't spend the money on training or don't do any at home training with the weapon. Because when shit hits the fan training kicks in! Ask me how I know

Ok. I'll bite. How do you know?

I'm going out on a limb and saying that by his location he's a soldier

Right. I got that too. Another case of sarcasm not coming across on the internet. Should have used an emoticon.

Was just being "cheeky" as the Brits say.

I can't imagine the stress you're under when real bullets start flying overhead and it's up to you to either fight or flight.

Thanks for your service. :thumbs:

BR

 

[360]

Very good point and one I can agree with. If you are going to use a pistol as a home defense weapon I always suggest spending the money and going through a couple of classes. It always amazes me that people will spend lots of money on the gun, the ammo, the fancy holster but won't spend the money on training or don't do any at home training with the weapon. Because when shit hits the fan training kicks in! Ask me how I know

Ok. I'll bite. How do you know?

I'm going out on a limb and saying that by his location he's a soldier

Right. I got that too. Another case of sarcasm not coming across on the internet. Should have used an emoticon.

Was just being "cheeky" as the Brits say.

I can't imagine the stress you're under when real bullets start flying overhead and it's up to you to either fight or flight.

Thanks for your service. :thumbs:

BR

My bad. Sometimes that sarcasm is hard to convey across the net. :thumbs:

 

[PhatCat]

My bad. Sometimes that sarcasm is hard to convey across the net. :thumbs:

Not your bad at all. I'm actually quite interested in hearing your stories, btw.

Citizen Soldiers (there are many others as well) by Stephen Ambrose is an amazing read about ordinary men put in unbelievable situations and how they rise to the occasion.

BR

 

[souldog]

Not your bad at all. I'm actually quite interested in hearing your stories, btw.

Citizen Soldiers (there are many others as well) by Stephen Ambrose is an amazing read about ordinary men put in unbelievable situations and how they rise to the occasion.

BR

So is "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. You wanna talk about your corn shoot puckering, take a look at what those bastards went through. I echo what Doc said, train train train. It'll work wonders for fighting off the terminal "sudden onset lead poisoning" disease.

 

[360]

Not your bad at all. I'm actually quite interested in hearing your stories, btw.

Citizen Soldiers (there are many others as well) by Stephen Ambrose is an amazing read about ordinary men put in unbelievable situations and how they rise to the occasion.

BR

So is "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. You wanna talk about your corn shoot puckering, take a look at what those bastards went through. I echo what Doc said, train train train. It'll work wonders for fighting off the terminal "sudden onset lead poisoning" disease.

Marcuss Luttrells' story is an unbelievable one. I am going to get that book when I get home. Been wanting to read it.

Sorry for the thread jack. Funny how this started out about a shotgun and ended up here.

*SGT Voice* BACK ON TOPIC MEN! :laugh: :laugh: :sign: