Context is everything. “Home defense” might mean keeping multiple rifle-armed opponents from getting into a position to breach the home’s exterior. If one’s opponents are shooting into the home, while using motor vehicles as cover, 7.62 NATO might be a desirable cartridge to use to defend the home.
Our present home is a thin-skinned bungalow, on a small lot, inside a small city, that is surrounded by a sprawling mega-city, Houston, Texas. My wife and her siblings jointly own a parcel of land, one county to the north. What would be my wife’s family’s weekend/vacation home, had it not been ruined by three floods, and then torched by an arsonist*, in the Nineties, is on a slope, in a heavily-wooded area. Defending that location, whether the structure is re-built, or not, might best be done with tools having considerable range and penetration. My wife and sister-in-law have said they have heard what they believed to be rapid rifle fire, in large volume, from the woods behind this parcel of land. Poachers’ blinds have been found, on the property, not far from the house. I have been armed with a rifle, chambered for .308 Winchester, at times, while visiting that location.
Unknown persons tried to steal a substantial portable building, from that land, after Hurricane Harvey. They were thwarted by their large vehicle being stuck in the mud, as evidenced by the huge ruts we found. It could have been interesting, had we arrived while that was happening.
I have never owned an HK long gun, but, did own HK pistols, in the Eighties, and found them to be quite well-made. In a historical context, I know the G3 to be a rugged weapon. So, well, yes, an HK 91 would be a relevant home defense weapon, in such places as rural east Montgomery County, Texas.
*My late father-in-law had received threats, with ultra-right overtones, in the past. Ironically, he had to leave Poland, and then Czechoslovakia, after WW II, because he was anti-communist, and in the USA was active in the Republican party, but he was targeted by haters, who disapproved of his owning land in rural east Texas.
