When it absolutely has to go bang, you reach for a...

[bannockburn]

When it absolutely has to go bang...I'd reach for a S&W K frame, probably a 4" Model 10.

krs

Your sig line has got to be: "So many guns, so little time".

 

[possum]

When it absolutely has to go bang, you reach for a...

my sa xd service model.

 

[23Glock]

When it absolutely has to go bang, you reach for a...

...phone, dial 911 and politely ask the criminal to leave before the police arrive. They wouldn't want to get arrested after all... The "beep-bop-bop" of 9-1-1 being punched into the phone, and the threat of arrest can be quite a convincing "bang" for most homicidal thugs.

Wait, sorry. That was my "Blue State Brainwashing" foaming up again...
I'd reach for my Glock G23 which is always chambered with 180gr Federal Tactical HST jhp's. I'd still have to do a lot of talking and warning before said "bang" due to CT's wonderfully poetic castle doctrine, but I know the G23 would absolutely bang when I finally needed to - probably after I'm hoarse from pleading for my life... :banghead:

 

[Peter M. Eick]

I would grab my 1939 38/44 Heavy Duty shooter. Dead nuts reliable, accurate and if nothing else I could beat some one silly with it.

 

[Javelin]

Glock.

 

[stuii]

well well well

Kimber Custom II 45. ACP

 

[gbran]

Nuther Glock vote.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Cymbals.

 

[Pilot]

Any gun I own. If it doesn't always go bang, I get rid of it.

 

[nero45acp]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

As above.


nero

 

[Javelin]

If you want it to go bang [quietly] a whole lot...

Glock

 

[chieftain]

Javelin,

that is an interesting set up. Looks good.

Personally I am a retro guy. If things get such that I must arm myself, these days my Mossy 590 stays in the open safe, loaded, next to the XCR set up for home defense, loaded, next to the Beretta Storm, set up for home defense loaded.

Next to the bed is the 12ga double barrel hammer gun, loaded with #1 Buck (Per FBI smallest buckshot for a firefight). If those two barrels don't work, based on the tactical situation, I would either just drop the gun, use it as a most effective base ball bat, or lastly if given time reload with 00Buck.

My home defense hand gun is a one of my two Kimber Warriors set up with a SureFire X200'B' model weapons light.

If I was already up and about I would be carrying one of my two government model Colt Gunsite Pistols. I don't carry my SIG's or Brownings much anymore.

Most important to all of this is the 6PL (for LED) SureFire that goes with me which ever weapon I grab. And the fighting BOB (bug out bag, one for fighting and one for other stuff which is a pack.) I keep at bedside.

In it is additional flashlights, batteries, The cell phone I tossed in with the additional charger I keep there, and of course magazines. It containes three additional magazines for the Carbine, three for the Beretta Storm, 10 extra rounds of 00buck, and three additional magazines for which ever 1911 I have with me at the time I grab the bag. First aid kit yadda yadda yadda. Small compact and can grab it as I run out of my room.

Oh I should say I also keep a loaded J frame. Up until recently it was the 638. (I carry the 642 with laser for my BUG) But I just bought a S&W 940 in 9mm of course.

That 940 will proably become the BOB J frame. I like the relatively fast reloads from moon clips. I keep 2 extra loaded clips, and am planning to put 6 additional unloaded moon clips in the BOB. Besides already loaded clips and the 5 in the gun, I also have the three 20 round Beretta magazines to draw from if I should need to.

There is my old fart long winded answer to the question.

Good luck.

Fred

 

[SwampWolf]

chieftain, I pity the Avon girl that rings your doorbell after hours.

 

[searcher451]

Let's see: a Walther P5, or a P5C, or a P88, or a P88C, or a P99, or a P99C. Any one of them will work, along with a P.38 and a P1 and a P4, comes to that. Like those Walthers.

 

[Supertac45]

A Sig or Baer.

 

[RedneckCopsWife]

I'd normally reach for my Glock 27 but I got a new Springfield XD9 for Valentine's Day. Went to the shooting range yesterday and I couldn't believe how well it shot! It out performed my G27. Now I will grab my XD9!

 

[mrt949]

Revolver IT ALWAYS GOES BANG

 

[earlthegoat2]

Glock

 

[hemiram]

If I had to pick one of them, I guess it would be my Dan Wesson Model 715 .357, or my Model 44 .44 Mag. But any and all my guns, revolver and semiauto are pretty much 100% reliable. If I had to choose one of the semiautos, it would be the Beretta 92FS. I don't keep them if I can't trust them. If they "limp wrist" or have any other issues, they are gone.

 

[10-Ring]

I haven't kept a firearm that even hinted at being reliable, so I'd feel confident w/ anything/ everything I own

 

[2ndamd]

DA Ruger revolvers.

 

[wep45]

Smith & Wesson 686............it will NEVER let you down

 

[Javelin]

Chieftan - they're just toys my SD firearm of choice is a very short suppressed AR.



But if it has to make a HUGE but reliable bang I might choose my Tromix Saiga-12 (20 round capacity 11" 12-gauge goodness that never gets old). And always a hoot to take to the range.

 

[ComradeBurg]

Probably the XD Compact I always have at my side. It hasn't failed me yet.

There is also my Smith and Wesson 686. The nice thing about revolvers is that they really don't fail you.

 

[cliffy]

Bang every time . . . A Handloading exclusive

My .243 Winchester has never missed a beat. I exclusively handload with the finest ingredients available. Never would I accept a misfire; since those could kill me quite rapidly. cliffy, the still alive