Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 21, 2012 - 11:10am PT
Ok, all this gun stuff has got me thinking. I need some home protection.
My situation and thinking:
1. I live in a rural area with mostly burglary crimes to fuel meth purchases.
So I'm thinking something that will fit in a bath robe and can be used on a burglar. But I also want something with accuracy at range, since them Meth guys are fast and can run, even carrying a T.V.
2. I live well away from people.
Things like a silencer are not needed. Nobody is around to hear either the shots or the perps.
3. I'm not afraid of close contact interactions with perps.
Maybe a gun with a knife attached? It gets so boring out here on the sand that any interaction might be fun, and any physicality in the hallway at night probably carries over to my climbing.
4. My house is recently remodeled so I don't want to mess up the walls.
Through and through rounds might be a problem. Unless it is way clean. Last thing I want is a f*#king set of lungs pasted to my livingroom wall. A small hole I can deal with.
5. Must be able to get ammo at Walmart or Big 5
Our retail choices are limited out here. Cheap ammo would be good too.
After contemplating it a bit more.. I think Tiger pits would be the answer. They break into your house, they fall into the trap.. the tiger eats them. No mess.
Bacons good, but tigers are cool. He could have some tiger traps and some wild boar traps. Best of both worlds. Wild kingdom baby.. thats what I'm talking about.
On a different note, I thought Russ kept a passle of dirtbags in the basement making all sorts of doodads for him. Why not just have them patrol the property. Heck.. give them beer and put them out front and no one will ever think of robbing you. One look and the thief's will feel sorry for you and be making donations. Not taking things.
"Here dude.. you need this more then I do. Merry Christmas".
You are going about it the wrong way. Get some mid-eighties cars up on cinder blocks, some old bike frames, couple of old couches in the yard (free on CL), couple of pit bulls (CL again). Any kind of remodel or improvement makes you a target.
Funny, a friend and i were talking about this yesterday and we both came to the conclusion that if we found ourselves living in an area where we felt we actually needed a gun in our homes to feel safe, then it was time to move.
Russ, I think a kill stick is the best option. It's a round deployed from a basically a baton you have to press up against the meth head's offending cranium. Usually used to dispatch crocodiles and the like.
Obvious cool factors: Close quarters. Sporting in only the way a one shot device could be. Probably incomprehensible to the gorked out lil' speed bump to boot. Fires out a nice .410 shotgun shell, rendering 140 pounds of twitching hamburger on your floor without more than one self-contained wound to the old think box.
Think about it.
edit: That or the No Country for Old Men air compressor thing. You'll develop true o dub strength in no time wrasslin' with them feisty varmints while dropping them with unorthodox weapons in close quarters.
Then you can do some real x-fit workouts while you hike the bodies out into the desert for disposal.
Let us know!