take a deep breath
I was just curious how everyone else plans on handling reloads if necessary during a Home Defense situation.
Don't you think that a simple solution is to buy more spare magazines for your primary handgun and for the other firearms? Having to run from one to the other in the bedroom doesn't make sense, does it?
You walk over to the closet. A handgun loaded is on the shelf. Next to it are a pile of loaded magazines for that gun. You scoop some up.
Then you use some imagination.
It is simplier to buy more rounds and fix bullet holes, right?
Do you really have to see people breaking and entering?
Do you have to play a musical instrument (like a trumpet) and yell warnings?
Just start firing. You don't have to have a target. You have already posited (that means "said") that it is a breaking and entering situation, right? Why would anyone want to come into your bedroom when you have just unloaded 13 rounds from your Glock 23, 33 rounds from your super high cap Glock 9mm mag or whatever?
I am not joking about the foregoing.
Once I had an instructor go to the range with me. I put two BGs in a house, drew the walls and had a doorway. Starting at 25 yards, I asked the instructor to clear the house. So, he, having watched a whole bunch of movies, runs up to the house, inches along and then conventionally clears at the doorway.
I then ran the course. I started at 25 yards and walked at 25 yards. I cleared from 25 yards. I can shoot and clear from 25 yards.
I then gave an alternative.
I ran up to the house, inched along the wall to near the doorway. Then I emptied my magazine in the pistol through the wall.
The moral of this response is that you use your noodle.
Think I am too harsh? A fellow classmate, wearing a vest, died on a tactical entry. The guy behind him, wearing a vest, died on a tactical entry. Unfortunately, the BG inside knew how tactical entries were done.
Use your noodle!
Have you been under fire? There is a lot of difference betwen shooting with earmuffs on and without them on. Anyone who thinks that he is going to be cool, calm and collected under stress and without earmuffs has another thought coming.