Beauty of the 357 revolver. You can load 38 special in it. LOTS of 38 self defense loads available. It also has weight, if you arent going to carry its better for handling recoil than a polymer frame.
Advice on bang bang
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Ive been a gun owner for over 45 years. No handguns. Too much BS to get one in my area. There used to be a 6-8 month wait and now I hear it can take up to 18 months to get a license now and its not even a CC.
That being said, over the years Ive had a few guns close by. The most recent was my Winchester Defender. Old school. These days pretty much everything is locked in the safe. House has LED motion lights on every side. Same with the garage. House and garage are alarmed. I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood. Only issues lately are a-holes opening up cars at night looking for change.
If I lived in a different area my first choice would probably be some sort of high capacity 9MM. A shotgun is kind of tough to use in a house without exposing a large part of your own body. Rifle too. Plus if you miss your intended target the round might kill one of your neighbors sleeping in the house next door.
Just last week I went with one of my old work friends to a local range to show him the basics of shooting his new AR. Hes never owned a gun before and only shot a few shotguns in his life. It was interesting. I havent been to this range in close to 2 years. I wished I was wearing body armor. People that have never owned a firearm were there without anyone showing them how to properly shoot. No idea of basic gun safety. It might be a long time before I go back.
My advice is to buy something with a magazine for more rounds. Powerful enough to take down a large person. Then take your wife to a range and practice. A lot !!! Torso targets and bringing the gun up from a holster.
I used to shoot at a local sandpit until the owner got too many complaints about the noise. Not just shooting at a target 50 yards away but also practicing inserting the loaded magazine and chambering the first round. In a bad situation seconds count. Just my opinions though.
Good luck with your choice.
That being said, over the years Ive had a few guns close by. The most recent was my Winchester Defender. Old school. These days pretty much everything is locked in the safe. House has LED motion lights on every side. Same with the garage. House and garage are alarmed. I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood. Only issues lately are a-holes opening up cars at night looking for change.
If I lived in a different area my first choice would probably be some sort of high capacity 9MM. A shotgun is kind of tough to use in a house without exposing a large part of your own body. Rifle too. Plus if you miss your intended target the round might kill one of your neighbors sleeping in the house next door.
Just last week I went with one of my old work friends to a local range to show him the basics of shooting his new AR. Hes never owned a gun before and only shot a few shotguns in his life. It was interesting. I havent been to this range in close to 2 years. I wished I was wearing body armor. People that have never owned a firearm were there without anyone showing them how to properly shoot. No idea of basic gun safety. It might be a long time before I go back.
My advice is to buy something with a magazine for more rounds. Powerful enough to take down a large person. Then take your wife to a range and practice. A lot !!! Torso targets and bringing the gun up from a holster.
I used to shoot at a local sandpit until the owner got too many complaints about the noise. Not just shooting at a target 50 yards away but also practicing inserting the loaded magazine and chambering the first round. In a bad situation seconds count. Just my opinions though.
Good luck with your choice.
I personally like a 120mm M1A2 SEPV3. That's what i had for a bunch of years.
GEN 3 Glock 19 with G17 backup mags (for the extra 2 rounds). It conceals well, and 9mm is a good round. THE problem will be finding one. In the era of the Coof you may find a Unicorn first. I may have bought the last Remington 12 ga SG in North America.
Find a local shop that doesn't have an internet footprint. All the internet gun shops are practically sold out of all stock (it's been a few months since I last looked, maybe it's getting better). Ammo is getting to be a bear to get at a decent price as well.
If they can't keep you from buying the gun, make the ammo bloody expensive!
Find a local shop that doesn't have an internet footprint. All the internet gun shops are practically sold out of all stock (it's been a few months since I last looked, maybe it's getting better). Ammo is getting to be a bear to get at a decent price as well.
If they can't keep you from buying the gun, make the ammo bloody expensive!
Agree x10.
I keep a potato gun handy and have my kevlar transmission blanket in the closet to throw over my wife if things start getting ugly.
For now I opted for a used kimber aegis elite ultra as a learning unit to teach the wife. Not the highest capacity, kind of a compromise piece, but the price, immediate availability, made it basically a no brainer. I think we should easily get what we spent back as a trade-in down the road as well, with a possibility of getting more.
The yukon wound up converted into a camper unit with the rear seat out for a few nights. Meanwhile, a network of game cameras at the gate and roadside frontage of fencing, some other security improvements, I think we're in OK shape and wound up back down the coast till next week.
Believe the culprits behind the damage have been identified, or at least some of them. For this time anyways.
I agree with motorheadmike about knowing and being willing to do what it takes. We had a family friend when I was first learning to shoot my first shotgun at about 6 years old. He was an officer in the next town over. Eventually killed in the line of duty when I was in high school. He used to always say, you don't draw your weapon unless you're ready to use it. If I ever wind up in trouble, dont point it at an intruder and talk, that just gets you into trouble. That always stuck with me.
Do I think I could? I expect so. Wife? Less sure. Until you're there in the moment you don't really know. But I've seen some scary people and situations from when I worked in Bridgeport CT and New Orleans LA. Pepper spray and the like doesn't stop someone high out of their mind, and I've seen or heard some bad things happening, enough so to have the alternative firm in my mind.
The yukon wound up converted into a camper unit with the rear seat out for a few nights. Meanwhile, a network of game cameras at the gate and roadside frontage of fencing, some other security improvements, I think we're in OK shape and wound up back down the coast till next week.
Believe the culprits behind the damage have been identified, or at least some of them. For this time anyways.
I agree with motorheadmike about knowing and being willing to do what it takes. We had a family friend when I was first learning to shoot my first shotgun at about 6 years old. He was an officer in the next town over. Eventually killed in the line of duty when I was in high school. He used to always say, you don't draw your weapon unless you're ready to use it. If I ever wind up in trouble, dont point it at an intruder and talk, that just gets you into trouble. That always stuck with me.
Do I think I could? I expect so. Wife? Less sure. Until you're there in the moment you don't really know. But I've seen some scary people and situations from when I worked in Bridgeport CT and New Orleans LA. Pepper spray and the like doesn't stop someone high out of their mind, and I've seen or heard some bad things happening, enough so to have the alternative firm in my mind.
.22 will kill you dead as midnight just as well as anything else, but...
