Home Defense

[Grim 82]

I am a huge fan of flashlights on firearms, but just remember that whatever you point that light at, you are also pointing a gun at it.

That's right velojym, that's how accidents can happen. LtDel, your tactic on printing light away from you (the target) with your weak hand is textbook good practice, especially for the line of work you are in. I mention my favorable opinion on weapon mounted lights only because having the package deal in a home defense situation where you have next to no time to react, it's one less thing to fumble around looking for when you are woken up in the middle of the night to danger. I also prefer the .40 cal for next to the bed, a Springfield XD tactical with a streamlight TLR-1. The Rem 870 with buckshot stays in the walk-through closet for the wife to grab on our way to the saferoom.

[choptop]

My wife is an expert shot with any of them, tho her favorite is the .45 acp.

Whoa!!! I love a woman who is not afraid of a .45 ACP!! Awesome. The next step from there would the Smith and Wesson 500 revolver .50 cal. 

The S&W 500 is definately on my wish list. I love that gun

[thirsty]

A couple years ago we had a S&W 500 visit the garage. The picture really doesn't show the size and brute strength of the gun. It is an awesome gun just to look at.

[bladerunner]

All the best things in one picture!

[Lt.Del]

My face would have a smile that big too if I held a gun that big.  The recoil on a S&W 500 with that .50 cal magnum is so much they had to vent the gases upward on the barrel to counteract the recoil to a degree....man, that's a gun!  If I had a spare $1200, I'd be in possession of one now. Only 5 rounds in the cylinder because the rounds are so big.

[Grim 82]

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