Your Opinion-Home Defense-Semi Or Pump? Why?

Both, I have a mossy 930 semi auto ready at a moments notice and the wife has a mossys 500 pump if the perp happens to get by me. We are ready for mist situations given the two and will survive one way or another.
 
I haven't read all posts before me so some of this may be re-iterating whats already been said.

A dependable, proven Semi would be better IMO. The reason you see so many pumps is their reliability is generally inherently better because you aren't relying on "automatic" motion for function. Some are recoil operated and others are gas operated. Different loads cause the gun to cycle differently, the way you hold it cause it to cycle differently. If you get a low powder charged round the gun will function differently, in some cases not functioning properly. Pumps will fire any loading from barely getting the load on target to magnums.

The other reason you see alot of pumps in HD roles is cost. A gun that one hopes to never have to use (except for practice/fun) you can get a good HD pump for under $400. The Semi I would deploy in that role exceeds $1000.

All that being said I prefer a pistol to a shotgun for initial HD contact anyway. Pistol fights me to my AR, which fights me to my HD Pump Shotgun.
 
I like a Pump, but in the case your arm gets injured when your attacked the Semi might be easier to use. On the fence, both good options.
 
OK, if u r gonna get the 930 do NOT get that high ghost-ring-sighted tacticool thing -- buy the one with plain bead sight and extend the mag tube or buy the lower-sighted Blackwater model -- they, at least, know better than most posters who have just been defending the SPX sights that deny you a cheek weld.
 
If you get the semi, make sure it's 100% reliable with your selected ammo. Some of the specialty (short case or low recoil) shells may not work properly in a semi.

Make sure of the reliability by taking it out and making noise. Just because somebody on an internet forum says their 1100 worked fine with 'em doesn't mean yours will.
 
Remember that a 12 gauge pump, firing typical buckshot loads has the recoil of firing a rifle on the order of a 30-06 or 300 winmag. As long as you are comfortable with that, get a shotgun.

Personally, I find a handgun and a dog to be a better deterrent
 
Nothings says 'get out of my house' like the racking slide of a pump shotgun.
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Sorry, but that has been debunked all over the Net as false. Additionally, if you have bad guys in your home and your gun is still unloaded - that is not good, especially when that sound just gave away your position
 
I am sure most will recommend a pump. I have 2 shotguns I use for home defense:
1) 20 gauge Stoeger Coach Gun, double barrel.
2) 12 gauge lever shotgun. It holds 7 rounds of buckshot

I do not feel under-gunned with either one of them. :cool:
 
Double barreled and lever action-are you an SASS shooter by chance?

Side question related to topic, people practicing with shotguns: Besides shooting clays, which these guns aren't made for, how do you regularly practice with them?
 
Side question related to topic, people practicing with shotguns: Besides shooting clays, which these guns aren't made for, how do you regularly practice with them?
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You can shoot 3-gun matches if you have the desire, guns, time and money.

You can shoot targets at various ranges with buckshot and slugs... depends what your local range allows.

You can participate in combat and tactical shooting schools and matches... again, contact your local range.

If you have the land and it's legal, you can set up a "course of fire" on a personal outdoor range... an "indoor" range if you have the above and some spare lumber to build a "fun house", "shoot house" or "kill house"... depending on who you're talking to.

Cheers,
C
 
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