Home Defense Opinions
POSTED BY: AnthonyT
UPDATED: Friday, October 24, 2025 16:55
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I have a Heritage as well. A Rough Rider with bird-head grip. From checking around and reading reviews of it, apparently it was marketed to Western recreationists and trick-shooters. That would seem to imply they are accurate. The one I have also has interchangeable cylinders for .22 or .22 Magnum rounds. The .22 Magnum Hollow-Point gives more bang for the buck than expected from such a small gun. Overall, I rather like it.
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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
If not, what's your preferred defense tool?
Danish Long Axe, but you need a bit of room to swing it (figure of Eight style).
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Hey there Raven's Shadow,
I hardly ever meet another Heritage owner. Huzzah! I love it because it's an inexpensive (and fairly accurate) plinker.
Good for evil empty water bottles and pepsi cans at up to twenty paces. ;-)
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Originally posted by Geezer:
Lots to consider.
1. Are you willing to take a person's life? You must make this decision, and be sure of it,
This is the number one thing to consider in my opinion. I think Geezer gives some very good advise on this topic. I would take what he has to say to heart.
A deputy sheriff friend once told me that if you pull a gun on another person you'd better have a damn good reason and you'd better be willing to shoot to kill. Often people who have a gun in the home for defense, end up being shot or killed by their own gun.
I live in a rural area where crime is not as rampant as some urban settings. I do own a home defense shotgun - a simple Mossberg model 500, 6-shot, 18 inch barrel - good for nothing but close range. Recently I added Crimson Trace laser sighting to my Sig-Sauer P229 .40 cal. S&W - which aids in night sighting.
Take a gun safety course or at least learn to use your firearm from an experienced gun owner. And lastly, pray you never have to use it.
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I hope all you guys are sure you have the guts and quick thinking to keep those guns from being used on yourselves.
Are you familiar with the writings of Shan Lu?
"You can believe your eyes...or you can believe me." -Groucho Marx
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Originally posted by Malbadinlatin:
I hope all you guys are sure you have the guts and quick thinking to keep those guns from being used on yourselves.
Are you familiar with the writings of Shan Lu?
"You can believe your eyes...or you can believe me." -Groucho Marx
It's a good caution, but one that can't be tested except under fire. Hopefully it will never be tested.
You can train. You can practice and imagine and think about it in your head. That's the most anyone can do. The rest is the moment and your will.
However, the alternative does not appeal to me. Anyone who would break into my home and take my gun and use it on me... would be the same sort who would take advantage of me if there was no gun.
Your money or your life was the old cliche.
Modern times replaces 'or' with 'and.'
--Anthony
"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner
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Often people who have a gun in the home for defense, end up being shot or killed by their own gun.
Common myth perpetuated by anti-gun folk.
Rate of occurance is statistically insignificant.
If it's so damned easy to take a gun from someone, then just take it back and shoot them with it.
My only advice is thus - should you have to draw on a home intruder, make sure there's only one story.
Yours
Anything less, in todays culture and society, and you might as well have put the barrel in your mouth when you pulled the trigger.
-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
My only advice is thus - should you have to draw on a home intruder, make sure there's only one story.
Yours
And if all you leave of them is a pink mist you don't even need that
(M82 man, M82).
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Can't help but notice how many replies revolve (yes, I am a punster. I would say, "so shoot me," but in this particular thread...) around a firearm.
I've never owned one. Got nothin' against 'em, don't much care one way or the other unless it's pointed at me - which has happened...the little opening seems sooo much bigger...
But I have been on the receiving end of an intruder in my house, and I'm here to tell ya that standing naked in a darkened doorway holding an unplugged 2 ft portable flourescent shoplight and screaming like a Banshee does have the effect of making an intruder change their mind and leave. Quickly.
A tip: Remember to put on a bathrobe if you decide to give chase...
Anyway, that's what I think...
MT
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Common myth perpetuated by anti-gun folk.
Rate of occurance is statistically insignificant.
I am not anti-gun folk, but when you start talking about a single life as statistically insignificant - you do us a disservice....
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