The Best Bad Choice for Home Defense

[Saddlebag Preacher]

1995 after going through a bad divorce and loosing everything, I was starting over staying at a secluded cabin at a local lake. All my guns were gone and I was broke. I finally was able to go to a LGS and afford a brass framed .44 percussion revolver, a box of caps, some round balls and a can of powder, all for about $115.00. I actually got pretty good with it and could kill snakes with a snap shot if needed. I used it for my home protection gun for quite a while before I got back on my feet and rebuilt my gun supply.

It actually got me interested in BP and the rest is history.

 

[76shuvlinoff]

I think my personal best worst is the 1930ish? rattle canned Wards Hercules single shot 12ga cut down to 26" OAL with a homemade firing pin and a buttcuff full of 00.

 

[BLB68]

. Uhhhhh.......I'd have to see that out of a pistol to believe it.

My .40 S&W operates at maybe 40k PSI and launches a 180 at maybe 1,200 fps. A shotgun operates at about 1/3rd of that pressure and is gonna push 2x the weight just as fast?

Laws of physics say otherwise. Maybe I' wrong. Don't think so.

He was referring to his Model 500 Mossberg there. ("M500")