What is your CURRENT home protection round?

What is your CURRENT home protection round

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Necessary_Nutrient said:
40/357 Sig? Kinda weird that those are combined yet 41 Mag and 45 Colt get their own option.

Who knew 357 Sig was still so popular?!
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I ran out of slots for possible choices. It took a bit of work to get what I felt was representative. There is a good chance that I might have a P32 in my pocket at any particular time but I had to exclude the 32 acp round because of space reasons. 40 S&W / 357 sig is a weird paring but I kind of figured anyone with a 357 sig is going to have a 40 S&W barrel for the same gun... probably bad logic. 41 mag... they just seem like a vocal group I was wondering if anyone actually had one as the first gun they would grab. 45 Colt.. I always wanted a S&W 625 in .45 LC. but ended up using the money to purchase a used Dan Wesson 744 (44 mag) instead. I was just curious about this round.

I would be interested in any suggest changes you would make to the list?

I find it interesting that at this time shotguns (12 gauge + other gauges) comprise about 1/3 of the selected firearms.
 
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.455_Hunter said:
an unhappy bear coming in one of our at-grade bedroom windows at our mountain home is far more likely than a raid by the mythical ex-Spetsnaz team many forum members seem to believe lurks around every corner.
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Since some of the people who read that probably think you're kidding.

 
MikeInOr said:
I live in a two story house with a great room and master bedroom upstairs. I work from home and my office is in my bedroom. Between my teenage daughter and all of her teenage friends I don't feel comfortable scattering guns throughout the house even though I have plenty to do so. In my situation I feel scattering guns throughout the house would have a much higher probability of an accident than a solution.

I usually carry a pocket pistol with me when I go out to the shop instead of keeping a half dozen guns stashed out there so that there would always be one in easy reach. When I take out the garbage I usually slip the XD mod 2 into a jacket pocket if it is cold outside or a smaller gun if it is warm and I am not wearing a jacket. I worry much more about an onery buck whitetail during the rut than a human in my neighborhood. I have had run ins with bucks but never a human.

Honestly my first line of defense is Piper, my German Shepherd, that is always at my side. She would undoubtedly buy me a few seconds to grab a gun. My daughter's friends love her and are in no danger of getting hurt while she is around.
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I never mentioned having several guns scattered throughout the house.

My question was "What would you grab if somebody kicked in your door and your XD was on the other side of the house from you?"

So, if you're in the kitchen on the first floor and your XD was sitting on your nightstand and the person kicking in your front door is between you and the gun, now what?

What if the few seconds your dog buys you isn't enough to get around the intruder and access your gun?
 
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My truck/pocket guns come in and serve as bedroom guns at night. That’s a Ruger EC9s, and a 223/5.56 ar I built this past winter. Also handy are a pump 20ga and a 10mm 1911 and a Taurus pt99 which of the whole pile is the one I would likely go to first, simply because I have had one handy for nearly 20 years and trust them completely. 16rd and 17rd aftermarket beretta mags converted to the Taurus fat catch hole, and they are all dead reliable too. Literally the only issue I have ever had with any 92 family gun is self inflicted, and with the Taurus guns the issue is often bump firing off a string of ammo. I should probably put an overtravel stop behind my trigger, but I’m not worried much about that.
 
Night Rider said:
I never mentioned having several guns scattered throughout the house.

My question was "What would you grab if somebody kicked in your door and your XD was on the other side of the house from you?"

So, if you're in the kitchen on the first floor and your XD was sitting on your nightstand and the person kicking in your front door is between you and the gun, now what?

What if the few seconds your dog buys you isn't enough to get around the intruder and access your gun?
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If you are trying to imply that I am not 100% covered by a gun within 3 feet of me at any time of the day you are correct. At most any point in the kitchen / dinning room / living room is within 12 feet of my night stand gun with no entry access in between. I am comfortable with this. When I go out I always have a gun on me and it will remain on me for the rest of the day until I go to bed. Since I work at home I don't wear a gun for the 6 feet between my bed and my workstation so I am more likely to NOT being wearing a gun than to be wearing a gun on any particular day.

I feel very safe and well defended in my own home... as much as practical for my situation.

Does this answer your question?
 
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MikeInOr said:
The "BEST" home defense weapon threads have been done to death... I was really interested in what the reality of what people would grab at this moment in a home defense situation.
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If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.

We fight like we train and practice makes perfect. And in my book, deliberate practice (fast point shooting at multiple targets) makes more perfect.

Before retirement, when we lived in high crime city with gang banger home invasions, we were armed at all times (Wife carried two pistols) in and around the house/yard as prison inmates were being paroled to empty house across the street (This was 2008-2014 when there were a lot of houses that were squatted by multiple occupants/families) with several multi-police car busts each week ... 14 patrol cars pulled up as we drove off in our moving van in 2014.

In anticipation of multiple gang bangers armed with pistols/AKs, we went from pistol/shotgun to pistols/multiple magazines on tactical vest set up with ARs (.223 then .300 BLK) to end up with 3 guard dogs and 180 feet of welded powder coated metal fencing around the property with metal security doors.

Now retired at our retirement property at the end of quiet private road surrounded by several other properties with acreages, our dogs alert to different noise made by tires/cars (They don't bark at neighbors' cars/trucks) so our door being kicked in would be very out of ordinary.

What are the chances of gang bangers kicking in our front door? Very low.

Could gang bangers looking for somebody who owes them drug money across the state kick in the wrong door? Perhaps.

For most situations, our dogs alert to any strangers and when I confront the "lost" travelers (Google map shows the private road going through but it doesn't in real life), they promptly exit out the private road if they were "scoping out/casing" the neighborhood. I make sure to tell them that I am retired and I am home ALL THE TIME with my barking dogs. :)

But I train with fast point shooting drills using pistols and PCCs/ARs ... just in case. I have bought CMMG 22LR conversion bolts for my ARs and Advantage Arms 22LR slide kit for my Glock 22 so I can run these fast shooting drills at multiple targets using the same firearms/triggers for that exact purpose ... just in case ... some gang banger gets the wrong house. ;)
 
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Immediate reaction gun is a Sig 365xl with 17 round mag which is always close.

If I have a minute, a .223 carbine is easy to get to.

less relevant at this moment but I’m trialing a 1911 for EDC again to see if some of the work I’ve done on my back will allow me to carry one again daily, only 3 days in and things seem very promising, so in a week or so the main pistol may be a .45
 
99% of my waking, out of bed time it'll be a 1911 .45. Bathrobe pocket carries a p365. 12ga in easy reach.

Layered/hardened exterior. Kicking my door in? Unless you're driving a tank, good luck.

And mind the cat. Sneaky, vicious, fang and claw filled furry bag of pure mean. The last unannounced visitor was a pair of LDS doing the good work. I'm still paying the hospital bills.

The cat is still licking chops and looking far too pleased with himself. Pure meaness.
 
I was a 12 gauge pump guy for the past 15+ years. I have kids now so the Mossberg that always leaned up in the corner is in the safe and a glock 20 with a weapon light has taken it's place. I typically have my g30 (45 acp) on my belt but if I'm in bed the closest thing is the good old g20 with its 15+1 rds of 10mm. I keep it loaded with Underwoods 165 grain gold dot. It's a supremely reliable handgun and a potent round for 2 legged varmint . I feel just as safe as I did with 5 shots of 15 pellet 00 buck. Maybe more so.
 
Pit bull rotty mix. Husky mixed with jack rustle. And a mini Dachshund. She's the loud mouth lol. The husky is very protective of the property. The other one learning from him. My wife and i are deep sleepers. So we hope they keep a robber or robbers busy until we wake up. I have steel doors double locked. And steel framed. Bars on the down stairs windows too. As far as guns on hand a 9mm and 12 ga with #4 turkey loads.

10 years ago we didn't have to worry if we didn't lock the doors. We got a lot of big city folks come to the area. The bad kind and good folks.
 
At the moment, an old model (6-shot) 357 Magnum Taurus revolver Model 66-4, loaded with Federal 125 gr jacketed hollow point, #357B.

I didn't vote in the poll because I have a few of the above in close proximity that I might use depending on the circumstances... 38 Special, 9mm, 12 Gauge, 7.62x39.

I don't leave firearms hidden around the house because I don't want to inadvertently arm an intruder who might be good at hide and seek.
 
In a drawer next to the bed is an SP-101 snub in .38 Special. Hanging on a gunrack next to the bed is a 12 ga. SxS, an AK47, and a GP-100 in .357 in its holster.
Then there is the gun cabinet with a pair of handguns, a 12 ga. pump, and 5 more rifles - all loaded. :D
 
MikeInOr said:
If you were at home right now and you heard a window break or a door being kicked in what would you pickup to defend yourself and your family? I am not asking your favorite home protection round I am asking what you would grab if you heard a strange sound right this second?

Why?

I would also be interested in the model of the actual weapon you would grab? And if a rifle round, is it in a long gun (16" or longer) or a short barrel < 16"?
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My wife’s meatloaf….. woof powerful stuff. Lol
 
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Right now, the one next to me in the nightstand is a .40 S&W. That's what I would grab.

The 9s and smaller are my carry guns. The long guns are currently in limbo until I move out of where I'm currently living and/or get a new car.
 
I would grab my 7.5” suppressed 300aac sbr with eotech. Maneuverable, quiet, doesn’t overpenatrate, super fast target acquisition, and might deter the perpetrators into running when they have a 30 cal staring at them, preventing them from getting vaporized! Just kidding, there would just be a big exit wound!
 
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