Which of these handguns would you use for home defense? Please don't respond if you want to say a shotgun, my Kimber etc. I am only interested in opinions and reasons regarding these choices.
1. Stainless 5 1/2" Ruger Redhawk .44 magnum loaded with 200 grain Gold Dot .44 specials.
2. Glock 23 loaded with 40 S&W 165 grain Remington Golden Sabers or other equivalent round.
3. S&W 2 1/2" 66 .357 magnum loaded with 125 grain Speer Gold Dot .38+P's or other round.
The reason I am asking this is because I normally use my 2 1/2" 66 For HD duty but this past weekend my wife and I had a yard sale where we had to leave some relatively valuable items out on the driveway for a couple of nights. I did set up some trip wires to alarm us should anyone come in the middle of the night to try and steal something. I opted to load up my Redhawk for the express purpose of its intimidation factor should I need to confront anyone. I felt that by just showing the Redhawk through the kitchen window would certainly scare any would be thief away. As it was, no one came by and everything went fine but it did get me thinking that if I were going to use the Redhawk for this situation maybe I should start using it consistently. I tossed the Glock 23 in there as I have used it in the past for home defense and consider it to be a contender.
1. Stainless 5 1/2" Ruger Redhawk .44 magnum loaded with 200 grain Gold Dot .44 specials.
2. Glock 23 loaded with 40 S&W 165 grain Remington Golden Sabers or other equivalent round.
3. S&W 2 1/2" 66 .357 magnum loaded with 125 grain Speer Gold Dot .38+P's or other round.
The reason I am asking this is because I normally use my 2 1/2" 66 For HD duty but this past weekend my wife and I had a yard sale where we had to leave some relatively valuable items out on the driveway for a couple of nights. I did set up some trip wires to alarm us should anyone come in the middle of the night to try and steal something. I opted to load up my Redhawk for the express purpose of its intimidation factor should I need to confront anyone. I felt that by just showing the Redhawk through the kitchen window would certainly scare any would be thief away. As it was, no one came by and everything went fine but it did get me thinking that if I were going to use the Redhawk for this situation maybe I should start using it consistently. I tossed the Glock 23 in there as I have used it in the past for home defense and consider it to be a contender.