Best weapon type for home defense?

[Danny]

the only flaw i can see is racking an empty shotgun.....

Just a few off the top of my head:

- you give your position away, the element of surprise is one of the best advantages you can have.
- your either racking out a perfectly good round onto the floor or your storing your gun as less than its full capacity. either options is not acceptable imo.
- mindset. gun fights are mental fights mostly. Picking up a gun hoping that the sight, or sound of your weapon solves the problem is a common misconception. Normally its safe to assume that the situation will escalate after a weapon is introduced by either party. A great source on mindsetl is Jeff Cooper.

To kind of go off on a tangent. There is a process the brain has and a word phrase given to it by an old fighter pilot (cant remember, sorry) where your brain essentially has to take the visual and audible information, compile and analyze it, and react in that order. Racking a shotgun can put u on the bad end of this, his movement in reaction to the sound will reset your brains loop, dramatically decreasing your reaction time to pull the trigger. The idea is to reset the opponents loop, not yours. This can be accomplished by turning on your tac light, and taking 1-3 steps to your side, then firing (just one of many examples). The light, and movement on your part will reset his loop and give you a split seconds advantage before his brain can recalculate whats going and where his threat (you) is and traveling to.

Wish i could remember the name of that brain process but i cant.

[SL65AMG]

Just a few off the top of my head:

- you give your position away, the element of surprise is one of the best advantages you can have.
- your either racking out a perfectly good round onto the floor or your storing your gun as less than its full capacity. either options is not acceptable imo.
- mindset. gun fights are mental fights mostly. Picking up a gun hoping that the sight, or sound of your weapon solves the problem is a common misconception. Normally its safe to assume that the situation will escalate after a weapon is introduced by either party. A great source on mindsetl is Jeff Cooper.

To kind of go off on a tangent. There is a process the brain has and a word phrase given to it by an old fighter pilot (cant remember, sorry) where your brain essentially has to take the visual and audible information, compile and analyze it, and react in that order. Racking a shotgun can put u on the bad end of this, his movement in reaction to the sound will reset your brains loop, dramatically decreasing your reaction time to pull the trigger. The idea is to reset the opponents loop, not yours. This can be accomplished by turning on your tac light, and taking 1-3 steps to your side, then firing (just one of many examples). The light, and movement on your part will reset his loop and give you a split seconds advantage before his brain can recalculate whats going and where his threat (you) is and traveling to.

Wish i could remember the name of that brain process but i cant.

both are valid points, but they dont mean that the sound wont intimidate someone..... you may lose your element of surprise, only partially maybe but the intruder definitely knows you mean business....


and as far as magazine capacity goes.... if you cant hit the sum'bitch with 5 rounds at 10 yards you have a SERIOUS problem.....

the only problem i can see if you dont have your 5+1 or 7+1 on you is when theres more than a few intruders.