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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 914475" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>I think the SxS looks ridiculous because its probably right next to a single-shot in terms of poor choices for a home-defense gun. Sure it can be used and has been to defend stuff throughout history, but it is hardly the best choice when thinking of taking it up against a semi-auto with even marginal capacity or a threat that just happen to be made up of more than one person.</p><p></p><p>The lever gun bugs me because I don't consider Lever guns something I would use for a gun-fight, but that one actually makes some sense since its been used in plenty of gun-fights throughout history and is conceivably a decent gun to use to defend one's self with capacity, speed, and weight considered. I suppose a single-action cowboy revolver could be used in a gunfight too, but again, it wouldn't be my first choice.</p><p></p><p>I would say that aside from bird-hunting or skeet-shooting, the SxS should be on someone's wall or in a safe and ideally not the first thing to grab in a self-defense situation.</p><p></p><p>If its all you got, then cool, but it doesn't make sense (to me) to buy $300-400 worth of stuff for it when that money can get you a shotgun more suited to home-defense.</p><p></p><p>Now I will say this - for all guns there is some degree of collector value and if you're taking a gun that is essentially a piece of history and modifying it beyond the ability to put it back to historically correct form - that's kind of sad in my opinion because that gun does sort of fall into the "collector" more so than it does the "tool" category since we're experiencing fewer and fewer classic historic firearms that are surviving now days.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying any of the guns in this thread fit into that category.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 914475, member: 229"] I think the SxS looks ridiculous because its probably right next to a single-shot in terms of poor choices for a home-defense gun. Sure it can be used and has been to defend stuff throughout history, but it is hardly the best choice when thinking of taking it up against a semi-auto with even marginal capacity or a threat that just happen to be made up of more than one person. The lever gun bugs me because I don't consider Lever guns something I would use for a gun-fight, but that one actually makes some sense since its been used in plenty of gun-fights throughout history and is conceivably a decent gun to use to defend one's self with capacity, speed, and weight considered. I suppose a single-action cowboy revolver could be used in a gunfight too, but again, it wouldn't be my first choice. I would say that aside from bird-hunting or skeet-shooting, the SxS should be on someone's wall or in a safe and ideally not the first thing to grab in a self-defense situation. If its all you got, then cool, but it doesn't make sense (to me) to buy $300-400 worth of stuff for it when that money can get you a shotgun more suited to home-defense. Now I will say this - for all guns there is some degree of collector value and if you're taking a gun that is essentially a piece of history and modifying it beyond the ability to put it back to historically correct form - that's kind of sad in my opinion because that gun does sort of fall into the "collector" more so than it does the "tool" category since we're experiencing fewer and fewer classic historic firearms that are surviving now days. I'm not saying any of the guns in this thread fit into that category. [/QUOTE]
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