Quote Originally Posted by Eow View Post
42, you've been a member of this forum for 8 months, and this is your first post!?

I have to say you are no doubt safe and secure with your SHTF strategy. Perhaps you might want to further reduce your risk, and leave your wallet out on the front porch at night so that no one gets hurt.
And you have 143 post and for some reason feel obliged to talk shit and miss sarcasm?

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To our resident ballistics experts... I've said it once and I'll say it 100 more times, I will kill you just as dead with a .22 as I would a .45. It isn't about caliber, its about shot placement girls.

Sure, a shotty gives you a bit more forgiving POI, but it also means you have a greater chance for unaccounted for fragments.

I'm not going to piss and moan like some about penetration or caliber, much of what has been espoused here is anecdotal at best, far from factual and down right negligent at worst.

I'll rely on my real world experience. I too have used 5.56 to end the potential threat of another human to my existence. All of those encounters required a varying number of shots, under varying environmental conditions, none of which was in doors. What I have is 18 years of muscle memory and training with my chosen home defense weapon, the 5.56 throwing AR-15. It is the best weapon I could assemble and afford, equipped with the best optic, light, functional ergonomic accessories and ammunition available to me. I can and am willing to use it to defend my family, property and under other legal circumstances as needed.

That is what I know, that is what cannot be disputed.

Defend your home and family with whatever you can, but by all that is holy and right in this life, train to do so. Train more than you do now, because no matter what you are doing now, know in your heart and mind, that it is NEVER enough.

Stay safe girls