Assuming you can't get to your gun, home defense alternative?

[Yelovitz_503]

I know, I know we all keep our HD pistol in arms reach but let's just play with the idea that for some reason you cannot access your home defense weapon in time. What other weapons, tools, objects, or skills would you use to protect yourself.

I know for my part I would go for my SOG Seal Pup, I know a bit about knife fighting and probably wouldn't have any choice but to adapt and improvise based on the situation I found myself in. I don't know any martial arts so that's out the window, but other than the knife I guess I'd just try to bash the intruders face in with my MagLite! And I suppose the worst case scenario I'd have to use my pen as a stabber.

So there's mine, what about you? How would you adapt to that situation, and what would you bring to the fight assuming that the best option isn't an option?

 

[MCK0704]

I'd say run away or hide, but if you have to fight, there are a few options.

If you had a crossbow and there was only one attacker, that could be an option.

Maybe a Louisville Slugger, golf club, hammer (my family has a big mallet for driving tent stakes) or hatchet if you didn't have a bow. Most people probably have at least one of these items around.

 

[Chevelle SS]

I have a Slugger in my room. Knives I guess, maybe I could throw some VCR tapes!!

 

[MCK0704]

Yeah, if you played pitcher in Little League and have some baseballs around, those could be used as weapons.

 

[hso]

This is nonfirearms after all so you'll find plenty of threads on this very question.

It depends upon whether you think about weapons or you're just limited to thinking of a firearm as the defensive tool. You're not going to do very well in real defensive situation if you're mindset is that the gun is your only option. So, the first thing to do is to alter your mindset and not cripple yourself making a gun a crutch.

Next is to start looking around the room for what would serve as a good defensive tool. Is that a large enough flashlight for an impact tool?
Is that lamp going to come apart in my hands or can I use it more than once to strike my attacker?
Am I carrying a knife? Do I know what to do with it to be able to be effective with it?
Is the stapler a flimsy plastic piece of junk or did I keep a full sized heavy steel Swingline from dad's desk?
Is there a baseball bat in the corner or have I stored it neatly away in the garage where it won't do you much good? Pool cue? Ax?
Heavy crystal ashtray holding spare change and keys?
Halberd?
Spear?
Magic Helmet?

 

[joeschmoe]

First you must learn to use your "tools"; Hands, feet, elbows, knees, headbutt, grapling, wrestling, locks, throws and how to hold and use basic weapons; sticks, knives, rocks.

Everything else is just an extension of these basic principles.

Kali/JKD

 

[ObsceneJesster]

If I could make it to my office across the hall, I would grab one of my many Samurai Swords.

 

[Double_J]

Spear and Magic Helmet!!!! No, I would use whatever I can grab, or use my fist/foot/elbow/knee. I have a large butcher block of knives in the kitchen, and usually have a few odds/ends laying on the coffee table. My bathroom has a can of shaving cream (think spaceballs for the use), a towel, and the top to the toilet tank.

My bedroom has a few options, such as the souvenir rock from when I went to Canada years ago, or the lamp, or the clothes iron. I can use those to get to the 12 ga. or one of the pistols in the bedroom. I used to keep a small wood bat by the bed when I was in high school, but I broke it playing ball and never replaced it.

The garage has PLENTY of choices. I almost always have a rake/shovel/mop/broom within reach. I also have a full set of golf clubs, and several hammers/large ratchets. Those are in addition to the wd-40, wasp spray, carb. cleaner type fluids that abound in my garage area.

I have put thought into what to do if I need to improvise, and I have no problem doing whatever it takes to win. I heard from an old marine Gunnery Sergeant "always improvise, cheat, adapt, and WIN AT ALL COSTS." I take those words to heart.

 

[Sleasys14]

Big screen thrown down the stairs after I blind them with my surefire.


Sent from my MiPhone !

 

[jon86]

Right now, I'm sitting in a kitchen chair at a small kitchen table. There is a glass bowl next to me with a fork in it. There is a pen on the table. There is a lamp within arms reach.

Make my day.

 

[wep45]

Louisville slugger and a bayonet

 

[TimboKhan]

I guess it depends on where I am in my house, but anything from knives to a bat to fists.

 

[Jaymo]

Saber, cutlass, Bowies, Khukuris, tomahawk, wrist rockets, 4 pound straight peen hammer.

 

[beatledog7]

In my house I could pick up a number of things: baseball bat, cane, solid cherry whomping club, various hammers, a slingshot, knives of various descriptions. Add to those anything I can pick up and throw, break to create a sharp edge, or use as a shield....

But the primary goal of self defense is to stop the attack; a firearm is probably the most reliable means of doing that against all comers.

 

[Jaymo]

Forgot to mention the telescoping baton. That sumbeach hurts.

 

[Browning]

I always have a pocket knife on me, even when I'm sleeping. Only time it's not on me is when I'm in the shower. I guess if I couldn't walk over 10 feet and grab a gun for whatever reason I'd go to that and try to fight my way to my gun.

 

[CWL]

I suppose I could throw cases of ammunition at the BG, that ought to hurt.

 

[ZeSpectre]

The truth is that EVERYTHING can be a weapon if you take a few minutes to think about it.

Triggering a Fire extinguisher is a great distraction and you can hit someone really hard with them as well.

 

[chipcom]

People who know better don't depend on their firearm always being within reach.(that's not living free, that's a prison, IMO). Almost any situation presents potential weapons of opportunity that can be used to effectively defend yourself. While having your trusty firearm at hand is optimal, your brains and mindset are the best weapons you have because they not only can prevent trouble in the first place...they also aide you in creating weapons out of just about anything.

 

[GP100Wii]

Baseball bat, KA-Bar, and Crowbar all all within reach for me.

 

[Jaymo]

USMC Ka-Bar, here too. Also have a cypress knee lamp. A face full of ABC dry chemical powder would temporarily blind someone.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

I'm currently downstairs in my office. There is a CAS Hanwei Tactical Wakizashi that I can reach without getting out of my chair. There's a four foot long octagonal cross section hiking staff made from some nice, hard curly maple a few feet away.

Up in my bedroom there's a 14th Century style longsword in my closet from Museum Replicas, and an aluminum bat on my wife's side of the bed. Of course, there's also a Mossberg 500 in my closet and a SIG P225 in a Mini-Vault on the wife's side of the bed, too.

 

[rcmodel]

You think I'm going to tell the whole Internet world what I have withing easy reach??

Heck no I'm not!!

Thats for me to know and them to find out the hard way!

rc

 

[Jaymo]

But, rcmodel, you're assuming I'm telling the truth and not full of BS.
This is the internet. Nobody tells the truth online. I'm a Navy SEAL, Ranger, Recondo,CIA, MIB, Green Beret.
I don't even own a gun. I use my MIB standard issue neuralizer.
Or, maybe it's an Albuterol nebulizer. I forget. Too much recreational use of the neuralizer.

 

[USAF_Vet]

In my bed room closet I have my Cold Steel Grosse Messer

I have a light machete in my living room by the fire place.

If in my garage, I've got a full length machete, my wood chopping axe, a hatchet and a SOG tomahawk, also various baseball/ softball bats.

I've got my Benchmade AO folder on me as well.

Not to mention non weapons that would be used as weapons, like the mag light, candle sticks, kitchen knives and all the fire place tools that would hurt wicked bad if hit in the face.