That's a good point. One area that a handgun might beat out a long gun is if you can't afford a weapon mounted light for your long gun (yet). A mounted weapon light is far better for home defense whether it's on a handgun or long arm but you have to know the right way to use that light.
I always take self-defense advice from the Vice President of the United States.Originally Posted by DocGKR
Tam - so you agree with Joe that AR's are too hard to shoot and aim for a woman? Haha - He is such a putz!!
As far as the shotgun wonder weapon, we had a three gun match this past weekend and watching a couple of new folk missing steel with birdshot at three gun distances and then running out of ammo and struggling with reloading always makes me laugh at the shotgun for beginners - ENUF SAID crowd.
Between shot recovery time - so slow. Now some folks really run the gun but it isn't an innate skill. Certainly not for me.
All those buttons and knobs and dials and levers and switches that have to be set just so are too complicated for my delicate ladybrain.
Well, yeah, everyone knows that all wimmin can't run nuthin other than a j-frame [/idiot]All those buttons and knobs and dials and levers and switches that have to be set just so are too complicated for my delicate ladybrain.
Heh. I've known folks who consider anything more complicated than a crossbar safety on a break-barrel shotgun to be outrageously baroque. I'm pretty sure that saying AR-15 to them invokes this sort of image in their mind:All those buttons and knobs and dials and levers and switches that have to be set just so are too complicated for my delicate ladybrain.
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I have found women are better shooters much of the time, because they don't have as many wrongly learned things to correct. My wife outshoots most of the guys we shoot with. Most anyone can be a great shot (assuming no unusual physical problems) so long as recoil is not to high and the firearm is ergonomic for them.
Andrew Wiggin,
I had a Surefire forend on my shotgun, and I thought it made the shotgun feel top-heavy, unbalanced and too heavy overall. Besides, I have a decent amount of light at night even inside my home, thanks to street lights and neighbor's security lights being positioned just right for me. The fiber optic front sight also helps a lot. I have chosen to NOT have a light on my shotgun for home defense.
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