For a home defense situation,

I carry a J-frame often, but a .45 w/185 gr. Cor-Bon and a Bushmaster shorty are my primary home defense weapons.
 
JBest,
Have to agree with Sundance. I have .38 J-frame S&W that I usually use as a carry or travel gun due to its light weight. I feel
comfortable with it and use it sometimes at house. But normally use my 6" barrell .357 at the house because I don't have to worry about the weight of the gun. Both guns are accurate, but the .357 is more accurate and obviously more powerful. If I really expected trouble, I would want the .357, but its just to big to lug around most of the time.
Use 158 grain +P wadcutters for my .38.
I guess I would have to answer that for home defense I prefer more than .38 snub-nose.
Also agree with Greybeard's comments.
 
A snubnose is good for your bedside table in case of a sudden attack. It's more difficult to wrestle away a J-frame than a larger handgun.

However, if you have time to prepare, I suggest a shotgun or even a rifle, depending on where you live.
 
Hmmm.. I agree with Sundance here. A .38 is nice for concealed cary but if you are at home in a bedroom in an "esconced" type situation I pefer something larger.

I have laid a .38 snub on the bedside table at night but prefer the S&W 686 (wife is familar with it), a Colt .45 ACP, or the Mossberg 20-gauge with an Ashley Express front night sight.
 
I would rather have my 5 round J-Frame than a baseball bat or knife. I would even say that I feel more confident with my S&W Model-360Sc, than I do with my Glock-27. I feel totally confident with my J-Frame revolver for anytime, but at home I do have to admit I usually use my S&W Models 386PD or 686+.
 
would you feel under-gunned with 5-shot .38 special?
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LOL! Course not!,,,,,sitting here in the full sunlit morning that is.
Change that to a dark 4:00AM with a weird and rare Easterly wind that played havoc with the front door, and sounded and LOOKED for all the world like someone was trying it,,,,,,
:D
At the time I was wondering if the 4 rounds of 00 Buck in the 870, would buy me enough time to get downstairs and into the safe.

Then there was the time that someone actually did break in the house. My wife heard footsteps downstairs and woke me up. I grabbed my Ruger Blackhawk .45Colt and loaded it up,,stuffed it in the back of my underwear and grabbed both of the dogs (a pure white German Shepherd and a black/brown Great Dane) by the collar to go,,,GET IM Kids!!. What followed was legendary,,,,*sigh*. The Dane decided he'd much rather sleep than fight and decided the time was right to do the ole Alpha Male challange on me (IIRC, he was about a year old at the time and at the feeling his oats stage). The Shep, not really caring for the Dane from the get go, decided it was time to do the Alpha Female thing,,or whatever,, on the Dane for "threating her Daddy"<--me. So here I am,,stuck in the middle of close to 300 pounds of disagreeable dogs,,,heavy S/A revolver stuck in the back of my "elasticly challenged" drawers trying to sort things out. End result, the gun fell on the floor, I fell on the gun and put a real nasty bruise on my back and ended up with a real "kidney killer" ache that lasted for months. Ended up with the drawers at half mast, and the "moon over miami" pointing down towards the living room from the staircase.

5 shots,,,yeah,,that would have done just fine at the time,,one for each dog, and three in the ceiling to shut up my hystericly laughing wife.

The BG? Who the heck cared? I can only imagine what the poor wretch thought... Crazy man lives there,,,wrestles Polar Bears and Grizzle Bears,,,ugly giant of a fella too,,huge black eye and huge swollen lips from fightin them bears.

*For the record,,the above is about 97% true,,it really did happen.
 
>>For the record,,the above is about 97% true,,it really did
>>happen.

Proof positive yet again that truth is stranger than fiction!

justinr1
 
RAE's great story actually serves a very serious point.

"Stuff" happens. I doubt even Massod Ayoob trains in the drawing from your droppy underwhere between your two fighting dogs drill. Actually if the intruder had attacked at that time, drawing from your underwear might have been a even more complicated and unpleasant experience :eek:

If you could plan everything out exactly the way you wanted it you would not be there in the first place right? Things get weird, mistakes happen, people may not act in a tactically sound manner when they wake up out of a sound sleep to find somene trying to empty a Tec-9 at there chest. Heck I myself MIGHT even jerk the trigger instead of squuueeezzzing it ;)

G-17 by my bedside 17 hollowpoints in it locked and loaded, a spare magazine of NATO hardball. Why the hardball reload? I don't know "Stuff Happens"...
 
5-shot snubby

There was - some decades ago - a shooting in a Vienna Jewish church.
2 Palestinensians armed with Polish machine pistols tried to shoot some Jewish people who was there to divine service ( excuse me, I am not member of jewish confession and perhaps do not use the right terms )
The bodyguard of one jew was armed, because it was sabbath with a 5 shot snubby instead of his normally carried big gun.
He managed to wound one aggressor and make the second flee.
But he said afterwards that he had good luck..
 
Under your pillow or in your nightstand isn't the same as carrying it around all day, it doesn't have to be small or concealable.

Then again I'd suggest whatever you keep around it should be something you shoot accurately and practice with regularly. If that's a 5 shot 38, its probably enough. If its all you have, it will have to do.

I'd prefer a shotgun, but that isn't always practical. I've been keeping a six shot 45 revolver around lately.
 
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