Most likely a stupid question waiting for a stupid answer...

[kda]

Buy a set of Laser Grips (I like Crimson Trace - CT) for your pistol / revolver. Then, the fact that you may not be able to use your iron sights won't be a hindrance. Just paint the BG (or bad guys) red and game over. One clip will be more than enough.

You can even hold your weapon low, close to you or poke it around a corner with one eye showing and easily hit your target ... exposing yourself enough to get a normal sight pattern is not required. CT gives away a great CDs with use suggestions / training ideas free. Write for it. It will extend the usefulness of your handgun dramatically.

Yeah, I know, there are those who pooh-pooh laser sights. But I can find folks still denying the usefulness of the internal combustion engine. Let them rattle on, uninformed. For my part, I want as much going for me and my family as possible ... if something like this happens to me.

Train with your normal sights, but every so often, use the laser sights and be prepared to be amazed at the stunning accuracy with which you can shoot. I've made a lot of converts when I've had folks watch that CD and handle my handguns, all of which are CT equipped. Prices have fallen for CT Laser grips ... not the financial burden they once were.

And NO, I don't work for them, sell anything for CT or any of that. Just retired and looking out as best I can for my wife and I.

 

[rs999]

If your bed gun is a Glock, why not try a 30 round mag?

 

[jcwit]

If the 1st 8 don't cut it I don't think I'll have any use for the 2nd 8.

 

[Officers'Wife]

This sounds too much like the story my Dad tells of his brother hearing thieves in his gasoline storage at three am. Supposedly my uncle came running out of the house with his BVD's and a 45-70 Marlin. In a pinch said uncle would have left the BVDs.

Seriously, unless the intruders are serious meth users the idea you are committed enough to defend your home in your undies will give them reason enough to believe you are not inclined to warning shots and leave at a high rate of speed. If they are meth users the spare mag isn't going to do you much good anyway.


Item last: there are no stupid questions only unasked questions.

 

[CredoUtIntelligam]

Assuming you specifically want a *device* to fill this role:

Get a fanny pack. You could sew some mag specific pouches in it, maybe?

Draw it tight, and it should stay on you well enough for room to room concerns.

Anyways, it's cheap, and if you're seriously considering engaging a home intruder in your skivvies then I doubt very much you, the family, or the bad guy will be all that worried about the potential De-Masculinizing* effects of said packs.

*No it isn't a word. Yes it should be.

ETA: The more I think about it, the better of an idea it sounds. Flashlight and cellphone would likely also fit easily enough in there. Something I may have to bounce around upstairs for my own home use...

 

[KenWP]

The chances of ever needing one mag are pretty high so that if it happend a person better buy a lottery ticket also. Has anybody ever heard of anybody actually in real life getting broken into like this. I am also wondering why you can't just carry a extra mag in the other hand. Unless you have some kind of hand cannon that needs two hands I have yet to see one that needs both hands anyways especially in the confines of a house where your in spitting distance.

 

[Zach S]

Spare mags are always a good idea. You carry a spare tire in your car because tires are the weakest link. Mags are the weak link in firearms.

You could get a shoulder holster just to throw on if something does go bump in the night.

 

[kingpin008]

Seriously, unless the intruders are serious meth users the idea you are committed enough to defend your home in your undies will give them reason enough to believe you are not inclined to warning shots and leave at a high rate of speed.

No offense, but this rates up there with "Just racking a shotgun will send badguys running" and other famously nonsensical statements.

If it's night time, what else am I supposed to be defending my home in? I'm not generally in the habit of tucking myself into bed at night wearing a three-piece versace suit with tails and tophat (no matter how sexy my fiancee tells me I look in it.).

Seriously. Go take a poll of criminals convicted of home invasions, and ask them how many times they were sent running by a startled homeowner who caught them in the act. Then ask them if it was the sight of said homeowner running after them in their unmentionables, or the fact that they had a pistol or shotgun in their hands that convinced them to vamoose. I bet I know which option they're gonna choose.

 

[cchris]

Honestly, if it was someone I didn't expect that may/may not be an intruder (I live in a college town, so ya never know - might be a drunk person stumbling in the wrong door), I'd hit 'em with one of those million candlepower flashlights. It blinds you for at least a second, long enough for you to identify them.

 

[Paul82]

Well if your using a mag, like AK47 mag or AR-15 mag you can duck tape them together like they do in the movies/video games. Even a .22 10-15 round mag can be ducktaped together in place.

 

[chuckusaret]

If I should need more than 12 rounds it is time to take up a defensive position or retreat

 

[cslinger]

You know this reminds me of a good friend of mine who recently passed, RIP Ray, that looked like the stereotypical Hells Angels biker. Big, Strong guy, long hair, beard, your basic Viking/Klingon hybrid kind of dude, although with a heart of gold (Don't judge books.......).

At any rate he had a thing for medieval weapons and his favorite was a good sized double bladed battle axe. We got to talking one day and I just got to thinking and brought up the fact that if I run down the stairs in my BVD's with 9mm handgun I MIGHT scare off an intruder. If he runs down the stairs screaming bloody murder in his BVD's with a friggen battle axe he was gonna scare the bejuzzus out of just about anybody and make them rethink breaking into the crazy viking's house.

Sorry about the drift, just felt the need to share as we miss him terribly.

Chris

 

[ThrottleJockey72]

At any rate he had a thing for medieval weapons and his favorite was a good sized double bladed battle axe. We got to talking one day and I just got to thinking and brought up the fact that if I run down the stairs in my BVD's with 9mm handgun I MIGHT scare off an intruder. If he runs down the stairs screaming bloody murder in his BVD's with a friggen battle axe he was gonna scare the bejuzzus out of just about anybody and make them rethink breaking into the crazy viking's house.

LOL, I get the funniest mental image from this, Oleg should use it. Sorry about his loss, sounds like he was a fun guy.

 

[Dannix]

Just go dual gun, Chow Yun Fat style.

Seriously though, if you are really concerned about it and it's a pistol you are referring to, you may want to pickup a Saiga12 with two 10/12rounders duck-taped together.

 

[jojo200517]

To all the people that say you never need more than one mag I wish you good luck. You never know when a malfunction can take place.

That being said, 1 in the chamber 5 in the tube, 5 more in the holder on the stock. *in billy mays voice* "it has pump and go action"


My pistol stays in car, and yeah there is a spare mag right beside it in the center too. Ya never know 11 rounds of .45 might not be enough, that is what the other 10 are for. Hope i'm never that far up **** creek but i'd rather be ready none the less.

 

[gunnutery]

Hows about a shoulder holster? It would be fairly silent and nylon ones aren't too expensive if that's an issue.

 

[Dravur]

How about this....

ON a spare mage, glue a ring or similar to the bottom and loop a cord through it.

Now you have a necklace and you can toss it over your head. Make the cord so it easily breaks and you can grab the mag, give it a tug and Bob's your uncle.


Might work...

 

[Birdmang]

So much for sleeping in my birthday suit!

 

[c919]

Ok I have solution. Sort of....

This may or may not hold up against lot's of Walker Texas Ranger somersaults, but it's an idea that popped into my head awhile back for the same purpose of which you inquire.

I know this is a really goofy way to start a recommendation response to a tactical question, but the minute I read your question I thought of the way my wife carries her phone..... I know, I know.... Hear me out....

When she's hangin around the house at night she often wears boxers for PJ bottom's (as I'm sure many of your SO's do as well), and she has a habit of toting around her cell phone as well (as I'm sure many of your SO's do as well). So here's her method: she rolls the waistband by folding it down over the phone, thus holding the phone above the folded-over portion of the waistband. It's actually a decently secure way to carry smaller objects.

I know that's one obscure answer to your question.... but hey, it's better than trying to just simply tuck it in your waistband or carrying it in hand. It's probably what I would do with my spare mag as well (if I felt the need to bring it out of my room).

 

[ScareyH22A]

I tried the spare mag between my finger thing and it's surprisingly effective! The cellphone carry in the waistband...

 

[armoredman]

Finally a use for Thunderwear!

 

[psychogoc]

That would be pretty darn funny (not so much for the bad guy)! You come out wearing nothing but a hat. Explain that one to the cops when they get there!

 

[cchris]

That would be pretty darn funny (not so much for the bad guy)! You come out wearing nothing but a hat. Explain that one to the cops when they get there!

Reminds me of a guy I knew a few years ago (okay, so a while back) when I was living in a dorm. Some people down our hall were being loud, so this guy comes out of the shower, puts on his cowboy boots and a hat, and walks down the hallway away from them. Needless to say there was a full moon that night.

So if you do go with the boots-and-hat-only approach, strap a mag to your boots.

 

[ironcode]

Get a Glock. If you're really worried that 15+1 (G19) or 17+1 (G17) rounds are not enough, get one of those 33-round magazines. 33+1 should be enough for any situation (or if not - you're screwed, and not because of mag capacity).

 

[Jed Carter]

If you are looking for a Stupid answer then this forum is the right place.
If you can't kill them with 15- 17 rounds then God want's you dead.