Best Scopes For Home Defense
Regardless of how many guns we own, most gun owners have that special firearm that they keep close at hand for home defense. We want this gun to be reliable and powerful in order to best protect our families. Assuming that your firearm of choice is already reliable and powerful, we can talk about putting the best optics on it to make it tactically proficient for a nighttime engagement. The best-case scenario is that you are able to acquire an accurate sight picture as quickly as possible. There is no one silver bullet piece of optics that will do that for every firearm, but there are some great options out there.
Here’s a quick view of the available tactical optics that you could use for your home defense weapon.
Red Dot Sight
Perfect for a simple, fast target picture. Since your eye doesn’t have to be exactly in line with the rear sight, you can fire your weapon from just about any position. Useful for simple point ‘n spray target engagement. In a home defense situation, your estimated range of engagement is less than three yards, so with a red dot, you just need to line it up and go.
Since many red dot sights are about two inches tall, they can be unwieldy for placement on a pistol. Red dot sights are tactically more suited to be mounted on a shotgun or short barreled rifle.
Laser Sight
Mounting a high-powered laser to the muzzle of your weapon is about the best way to put your lead downrange where you want it. Just point and click. The advantage of the laser sight is that you don’t have to align your eyes with the aiming reticle in order to acquire an accurate sight picture. You can aim literally from the hip and be just as accurate as if you had the iron sights lined up on the target.
“At night time, a laser dot will strike fear into your opponent.”
I know this article came from somewhere else, but I’d submit that depending on some piece of gear to strike fear into an opponent is a disastrous tactic. Don’t try it. Too many people are cracked-out on their drug of choice, they won’t even notice it.
Just ‘shoot to stop’.
[…] Aaron has a nice read up over at his place about how to scope up your guns for home defense… He has a lot of great points and its a nice starting point if you are considering adding things like lasers, red dots and what not to your home defense tool box. […]