marlin 1895 as a home defense gun

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Greg Koziol

Discussion Starter · Jan 9, 2011

was just thinking today that my .45-70 that i did custom work too which can hold 7+1 would make a good home defense gun with remington 405 or 300 grainers.. the recoil is not too bad and the lever action is fast. I have a red dot on there so it's pretty fast. and knowckown power is obvious

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JNewell

· #7 · Jan 9, 2011

I think the two considerations I would throw out for your thought have already been addressed, but just for the heck of it...

1. Over-penetration. Generally I think this is over-rated but a .45-70 would get me thinking about that. In your case, sounds like it's not an issue.

2. Recoil for efficient and effective follow-up shots. If you're comfortable with it, not an issue.

I guess a third would be weapons familiarity. You need to be as comfortable and familiar with a SD firearm as you are with your skin. If you spend a lot of time with the .45-70, that would be a plus for its use in your case.

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JNewell

· #15 · Jan 11, 2011

I think all that proves is that even a .22 rimfire can be an amazing penetrator. As far as defensive effect, though, remember Frank Serpico. He was shot, IIRC, seven times in the head with a .22LR pistol at near-contact range, and lived.

DEL GUE said:
On Friday morning some knucklehead came home high, having said he'd been ripped off somewhere, and he got his trusty High Standard .22 magnum and pointed it at a female roommate and told her everyone needed to get out of the house because he was gonna start killing people and he didn't care who. The female told him not to point it at her, so he pointed it at his sliding closet door and cranked off a round. The hollow point on that .22 mag bullet clogged up as it went through the closet door and into the bedroom wall, taking on the characteristics of a solid, and it came out the wall in the next bedroom, enterd and exited another sliding closet door, and entered and exited a dresser before hitting the wall behind the dresser and falling to the floor, spent. He went to jail for discharging a weapon in an occupied dwelling, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and violation of injunction.

The point is, people aren't that hard to kill. You are better served with a shotgun with birdshot. At 'across the room' distances, birdshot will kill quite definitively while also dissipating energy rapidly and not overpenetrating.

It's y'alls houses, though, and you can use whatever you want.

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