Model 15-3 as primary home defense

[K Frame Keith]

Why not? A combat masterpiece was my duty sidearm when I started on the job. Times may have changed but the capabilities of the weapon haven't.

 

[silentflyer]

12 gauge pump and a Model 19, for home defense.

 

[rubiranch]

I have my 28-2 6" on my nightstand and my DSA FN FAL leaning in the corner.

I'm more comfortable with my 28-2 than I am with any of my other handguns.

 

[Walkingwolf]

Usually my HD handgun is the one I am carrying at the time. That varies, when I am riding the motorcycle it is usually a Glock. Most other times it is a revolver.

 

[bubbatime]

Primary home defense gun? Long gun. Always. Always.

 

[hsmith9491]

681 and 12 gauge pump.

 

[rbmac52]

When I went through Basic Police Recruit School in 1978, about 80% of the class carried either a Model 15 or Model 67 4". The K-frame Combat Masterpiece in .38 S&W Special ruled the roost for many years.

 

[notsofast]

I have a lot of choices but I'm comfortable with my 4" 13-3, non magnum hp's

 

[junglefighter]

M69,4.25" bbl.loaded w/Sig 44Spl. with a 12ga. pump next to it.I am a heavy sleeper(when I finally go to sleep) and prefer a revolver for noises that wake me up.

 

[Rudi]

A 12 gauge backed up with pistols would be my input.

 

[saemetric]

Bedside is this new Cobra. Have many Smiths, but my edc is an older Agent.

 

[Birdgun]

Sitting in my wife's nightstand on her side of the bed is her 15-4. It is her primary home defense gun since she claimed it after we took it to the range and she shot it. Great, reliable revolver. She did ask me to put faux pearl grips on it so it would look more feminine and pretty. Yes ma'am.

S&W Model 15-4 "Combat Masterpiece" in 38 Special.

Thanks for looking at my wife's Combat Masterpiece.

God bless,
Birdgun

 

[elm_creek_smith]

These are my primary home defense guns, a 4 inch Model 65-1 and a 2 inch Model 12-2. They are also my primary carry guns. Right now the Mod 12-2 is in my holster.

This is my wife's gun, a Model 681 (no dash with M).

 

[Lobster Picnic]

My nightstand: K-38 4"
Wife's nightstand: Model 67 ND

 

[The Gila Bender]

Only once in my 58 years did I feel compelled to arm myself while in my home. Renters had just moved to the neighborhood two doors down from me. Twenty-somethings that like to party (no problem with that). One night one of them was dropped off in front of my home at 2 am, and boy howdy was he drunk. He managed to get into my backyard, puke on the patio furniture, and then started banging on the glass arcadia door and yelling for someone to let him in. I awoke, peeked through the blinds, and saw someone I did not know trying to get into my home. I yelled that he was at the wrong house but he was so drunk that he could not hear or understand me. I did three things: Grab my phone and call 9-1-1, grab a flashlight, and arm myself with a 13-2 3" loaded with 135 grain .38+P Gold Dots. The police arrived quickly and the young man was safely escorted home. He never knew, and I never volunteered, that I was armed. Long story, sorry, but I was rattled and this was my response. My go-to house firearms are the 13-2 and 640-1 loaded with .38+P, and a HK USP .45 Compact loaded and chambered with .45+P.

 

[amazingflapjack]

For home defense-other than a shotgun, I want something that anyone in the household can use when under a lot of stress-kid-woman-whoever, something that is ready to fire immediately, that is an acceptable physical fit for different sized hands, and nothing with a "shoe safety trigger"-hand gun or rifle-nothing. Also something that won't penetrate the neighbors houses. Checking those things off brings me to a revolver, probably a 38 spl loaded with heavy lead bullets that are on the slower side, and of at least a 4 inch barrel. Our M-65 wears Hogue bantams-they accommodate my big Gorilla paws as well as my Wife's little ones equally well. Magnas would be ok-but anything everyone is comfortable with, having shot the revolver.

 

[ShivasIrons]

90% of the time the revolver on my nightstand is the one I carry all day. 90% of the time that happens to be my J frame. The other 10% of the time it is some other revolver.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

No CCW here, by my bed are my S&W M-57, M-28 4", Ruger 6" Security Six. 38 Specials in the latter, I figure those heavy frames will allow me faster follow up shots, and in the close confines of my apartment a well placed 38 will do the job. Jim Cirillo and Charlie Askins and countless others did OK with the 38.

 

[rct269]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry!!

Let me see if I have this right----------------

It's three o'clock in the morning---you've been awakened from a sound sleep because you thought you heard something. Everything is pretty foggy. Then you hear it again! It's not foggy anymore----it's all hands man your battle stations---and the adrenaline pumps are wide open!! You have never been so terrified in your entire life----and you're going to select a so&so because it has the best trigger---or a such&such because it's the most accurate.

So which is it----laugh or cry?

Did any of you hardened gunfighters hear the guy who said shotgun---or the other guy who said long gun?

Think about it!!

Now think about it again!!!

Ralph Tremaine

 

[Camster]

Primary home defense gun? Long gun. Always. Always.

In my county, that's the only legit answer. Handguns must be stored in a safe, so if you're found to have used one in SD, a wave of doo-doo is headed your way. "Why was it out of the safe?? It's only allowed out of the safe when you're going to the range,so? "