What's your HD gun?

[Caveman Jim]

I realized I had about 4 different pistols in my nightstand safe for home defense.

This was in case a normal bad guy broke in.. or a bear.. or a small gang.. or a lightly armored vehicle.

I'm using a CZ SP-01 w/ a TLR-1s... I'm mainly worried about over penetration or I'd be using something in 10mm.

So what pistol is pulling home defense duty for you? Why? What's it wearing?

This right here is the exact reason that I consolidated HG calibers to one (40S&W) When you get older you can't think as fast as you used to, when you're trying to fit a double stack magazine into a single stack gun you spend more time thinking about why the hell isn't this working and you could be dead..

 

[The Heretic]

Shotgun - loaded alternately with slugs and buckshot.

I have no worries about home invasion - I just need something that could deal with a feral dog, coyote, bear or cougar coming out of the darkness when I step outside to see what tripped the motion detector lights. Never seen anything but deer, but I know coyote, bear and cougars are out there, and bear have been within 100 feet of the house (seen the scat numerous times).

Just the same, even when it is dark, I almost always go outside unarmed.

 

[etrain16]

M&P 40 full size with light/lazer combo in a bedside quick access safe. On the wife's side, Ruger SP101 loaded with .38's Would love to add a shotlock vault to bring a shotgun into the bedroom at some point, just haven't done it yet. Got a Mossberg 500 and 590A1 both available and ready to go as HD guns at that point.

Oh, and the daily carry gun is elsewhere in the house, secure and concealed, but readily available should I be away from the bedside guns.

 

[Caveman Jim]

For those who have neighbors really close by and choosing an AR for HD, might I suggest to go the extra mile to protect them too.

Bulletproof Dry Wall: Fibrolux GmbH

 

[djharteloo]

We live on land and have cows, partial pasture, partial wooded, no neighbors super close. Currently on my side of the bed is a CZ Scorpion evo carbine loaded with 30 147gr speed gold dots, wearing a streamlight polytac. When I come up with the funds, it'll be getting a red dot of some kind (aimpoint pro or trijicon mro).

On the girlfriends side is a GP100 with 6 .357 mag 125gr Hornady xtps and another streamlight polytac.

 

[B5Ben]

590 with a G30S in a quick access safe.

 

[USMC1911]

M&P 45 w/TLR-1 in the nighstand and extra fenix flashlight, 870 on the bedside and whatever gun I had on me that day on the dresser.

 

[No_Regerts]

I used to keep several Glock 22s with TLR1s in various locations around the house. Now that I have a family, I get home and lock up my duty gun and replace it on my hip with something else. Usually a Sig P226 with a X300 attached.

I have a lockbox upstairs and downstairs, each with an M&P9 in them for the wife while she is home alone.

 

[kato pup dog]

4566 on the nightstand, 4506, 686+ and a 10-7 play backup. All 4 pistols carry hornady self defense rounds. Also keep a 5.55AR by the nightstand and a maverick 88 loaded with #6 birdshot handy. Neighbors are a hundred yards off...

 

[Diamondback]

Right now, it's a basic GI-style 1911 .45 full of Gold Dots, with a 10.3" AR pistol carrying a 450-lumen Olight weaponlight, green-beam Lasermax, RDS and ninety rounds of M855 or better under construction.

 

[cigars]

I'm not tellin'. You'll have to find out...

 

[5nmay5]

Glock 19 nightsights crimson trace rail mater pro and 2 mags... that should allow me to fight my way to my carbine in the safe and continue the fight eh?

 

[Howard1955]

XDM .45 with a CT light/laser and a 13-round magazine. Two more 13-round mags standing by.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

XDM .45 with a CT light/laser and a 13-round magazine. Two more 13-round mags standing by.

I need more coffee...
First read that as :
"XDM .45 with a CT Lightsaber..."
( Which would be very cool by the way )
Andy

 

[Howard1955]

I need more coffee...
First read that as :
"XDM .45 with a CT Lightsaber..."
( Which would be very cool by the way )
Andy

I'm on it, Andy. But the R&D is going to be expensive.

 

[SA Shooter]

SA Champion Lightweight Operator & FENIX LED

 

[Will_White]

9mm sub2000 with 33 round mags, and tlr2

 

[Sgt Nambu]

10" .300 BLK SBR. It's my only .300, and it's only for HD, and it only shoots subsonic 220-grain ammunition.

It wears an EoTech, a TLR-4, and a Silencerco Octane .45 can, and it lives in a wall-mounted lock made for a patrol car.

This works for me for a couple of reasons:
1) I have a few acres, some wooded, some landscaped, and can easily be looking at a 100-yard shot in most directions.
2) The house is long and open, with 2 30-yard spans.
3) We get critters. Opossums and coyotes have both been on the porch, have both gotten tangled up with the dog, and the .300 has been nice to end the ill-fated scenarios from an animal welfare standpoint, relatively quietly.

I will likely ditch the Eotech for iron night sights, as the Eotech was just sitting around...anybody have any suggestions?

Hey, Erock! Like to see a photo of the cop lock box!

 

[MrRob96]

View attachment 412247 View attachment 412249 Browning Hi Power Mk III with night sights and Crimson Trace Lasergrips and another 9mm pistol just in case its more than a bump in the night...

Why the 9mm AR platform? Why not just the handgun? The velocity improvement is minimal and it seems like you lose mobility.

 

[Will_White]

Why the 9mm AR platform? Why not just the handgun? The velocity improvement is minimal and it seems like you lose mobility.

I can't answer for Jordan but the reason I went with a 9mm carbine is controlability, capacity, and I wanted something my wife could easily use if I wasn't there.

Btw the velocity gains between a 4" pistol and 16" carbine is not insignificant, it's 200+fps in most cases. BBTI - Ballistics by the Inch :: 9mm Luger Results