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To: Ish who wrote (70121)	2/16/2009 12:14:04 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Wweelll, a 416 for home defense has a number of attributes that would give me pause. 1) Serious overpenetration, unless your assailant is a bull moose held in a frontal aspect by your hallway. 2) Muzzle blast. You'll deafen yourself ... assuming you have any hearing left at all, you can kiss rthe residue good-bye. Also, your windows might blow out. 3) Recoil. That's a "personal preference" thing. I can handle hard-recoil handguns, but I'm an absolute pu$$y when it comes to shoulder weapons. 25-06 is about my limit. 4) Last I checked, they didn't chamber their bolt gun (is that the Mod. 77?) in the big Rig'. The No. 1 is a single-shot, so you'll have to use your Drill Sergeant voice to get the punks to fall into file first... 5) Price per cartridge. 6) Availability of suitable bullets, even if you roll your own. For home defense ALWAYS use factory rounds in an unmodded weapon. Otherwise the defense will paint you as a gun crank, and succeed. I'd use a different excuse for getting the 416, oh, like planning to hunt moose or those big Kodiak fellas. But that is all just my opinion, an'all. If "home defense" were my concern, I'd own something different. I use a .45 auto ... my ears MIGHT still work after touching one such off inside four walls and a ceiling. Sixgunners I'd point at the .45 Colt. Big bullet, low pressure, not so awfully loud as my personal all'round favorite, the .357 magnum, which is an eardrum ripper. cheers js Postscript. This November ... did I mention that i got me a 416 Barrett? I can't remember. I usually don't switch into 100% Gun Nut persona on DAR. I DID join our local Gun Club this past Monday - we have a membership cap and there were 6 slots left. Got one of'em, and there were like ten, uh, contestants. As soon ans I get my card ... I'll be able to shoot a gun for the first time in 8 YEARS... not counting the odd .22 I popped off at Sphere's-End, where we had four acres of gulch, or rthe .357 Freedom Arms I used to put "Cookie" down last September after the Great Sheep Death. First time I ever pulled the trigger on something bigger than a ground squirrel. Wish I could have recovered the bullet.