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Best Inexpensive Guns for Home Defense
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| 9/24/12
| Thoreau
Posted on 09/24/2012 6:24:41 PM PDT by Kartographer
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1. Reliable
2. Accurate
3. Moderate power
4. Moderate range
5. Inexpensive gun
6. Availability of ammo
7. Ammo capacity
To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
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For your consideration, discussion and critique.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:26:03 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
If you insist on the moderate power and range, the Ruger 10/22 is probably the closest match.
If you simply want the best gun, I would say a Remington 1187 or some of the other nice 12 gauge automatics.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:27:58 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Kartographer
7.62 x 25 Russian for $200-250.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:28:13 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Kartographer
H&R Pardner - an 870 clone.
perfect home defense shotgun.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:28:45 PM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
To: Kartographer
Mossberg 12 ga pump shotgun. Thus sayeth Mr. Trimom.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:28:50 PM PDT
by
trimom
To: Kartographer
5. Inexpensive gun A Hi-Point gun.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:30:19 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
To: Kartographer
Used pump shotgun, 20 or 12 gauge.
If you want new, the Chinese are making very good knock-offs of the Remington 870. (They’re so good that parts and accessories are interchangeable)
Norinco, IAC, also being offered as the Harrington & Richardson (H&R) “Pardner”.
Under $200 new.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:31:49 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(aim small, miss small)
To: Kartographer
You cannot beat a good old fashioned 12 gauge shotgun. We like the Mossberg 500.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:32:13 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Kartographer
Mr. Trimom also wanted me to mention that the Mossberg is 100% American made.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:32:36 PM PDT
by
trimom
To: yarddog
If I could have only one survival gun, the Ruger 10/22 would be it. You can hunt for food with it, 22’s are dirt cheap. It can head shot larger game in a pinch. It is rather quiet vs a full power rifle, is accurate.
In a urban setting when you might want to “eat Chinese” and have meow tacos, you can fire the squirrel rounds that are subsonic and it is as if the rifle had a silencer.
Strictly survival though, very un-kosher to hunt larger game with a 22, unless your life depended on it. I have killed quite a few coons with subsonics that were trapped in havaharts to not "disturb" my liberal neighbor.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:32:55 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: Kartographer
I have been thinking about a 420 gage shotgun for home defense
take down anything and not take out structural walls
What do you think?
Small enough to teach my young daughters to practice with a real shotgun
And the ammo is so tiny its almost CUTE
I know.. I'm weird
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:34:48 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
("The only thing the World would hate more than the USA in charge is the USA NOT in charge")
To: Kartographer
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:35:31 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:35:31 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Obama gives us the gift of downward mobility)
To: Kartographer
Before I even read the other responses ... Ruger 10/22
(it is a must have)
TT
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:36:34 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
To: Mr. K
A person could get by with a .410 but a 20 gauge would be better if you don’t want to go 12.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:38:07 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: TexasTransplant
plus the 10/22 is just plain fun and dirt cheap to shoot
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:38:23 PM PDT
by
al baby
(“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
To: Kartographer
Mossberg 500.
Nothing says you’ve entered the wrong house like the sound a pump shotgun being jacked. (Except maybe a slightly worn slide on a 1911).
If I had only one gun a 10/22 would be high the list but the question had do do with inexpensive home defense.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:39:29 PM PDT
by
lrdg
To: Mr. K
I think you mean a .410 gauge Mr. K, and I concur. I bought my daughter a nice used Ithaca Model 66 super single 20 gauge, and it’s too much for her.
Shoulda went lighter....
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:39:43 PM PDT
by
onona
(This space for rent....cheep)
To: Kartographer
300 bucks will get you a Winchester Defender in 12 or 20 gauge. 18inch barrel, 8 shell pump. They work.
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posted on
09/24/2012 6:40:29 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
(.)
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