harmonica
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shoulder fired = longer to aim.....well, I would always say go with the pistol for inside the home...I can see how the article says the rifle is more accurate, and it is .....but, we go back to the realism issue:.....home defense..well....what would be a realistic situation where you are at? inside the house usually means home defense....but I would think the majority of encounters [ near the home ] with jackasses would be outside the house......and what would the jackasses be armed with?Since you already made up your mind why did you start the thread?They also travel through walls and across the street and demand pinpoint accuracyLow recoil, faster muzzle velocities and hollow point rounds sound like a good home defense weapon
and unless your wife is proficient a semi-auto rifle or handgun is more difficult to use under stress and more prone to accidental discharge
if a 12 ga intimidates her get a 20 ga break barrel with external hammer
home invaders will run away at first sight of a shotgun and she wont even have to fire it
I don't worry about a hollow point or any round penetrating walls. I live in the middle of an 8 acre plot and have no neighbors within eyesight.
And my wife is a dead shot at 15 yards with a .380.
I haven't already made up my mind I said i was leaning towards one. I will not have made up my mind until I actually decide to buy one.
I was looking for negatives that I might not be seeing.
I don't see that it is very likely that a bunch of armed people will lay siege to my home where I would be shooting back at them over distances of more than 50 yards.
Realistically the only time I think I would shoot anyone is if they actually broke in to my house.
--would you really be holding up the rifle aiming in at a jackass, or keeping it at the low carry? it's going to be a dynamic, confusing,etc situation at first...I don't see myself getting our of bed, shower, etc putting the rifle at the aiming position
---and here's the key = much faster to bring the pistol up to a GOOD aiming position = especially in a dynamic situation
That's the idea behind using a pistol caliber carbine. It's a shoulder fired weapon with a longer barrel than a pistol but usually shorter than a rifle or shotgun. So you get a higher muzzle velocity that you would from a pistol with very little recoil and better accuracy