What kind of gun should a home owner choose?
What makes the Highpoint
40 caliber carbine rifle a good choice for the modern day
homesteader? It's affordable...a bit over 200 bucks, it's easy to use with
minimal kick back, and it serves two roles on the farm as a weapon for
home defense and a tool for hunting.
We could have gotten by with hunting our garden raiding deer with the
trusty Winchester shot gun, but that thing has a hard kick to it and
you only get one shot before you need to stop and reload.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Just be careful using a pistol round at distances more than 50 yards or so. Part of the selection process in a hunting weapon is choosing a projectile and gun combination that will ensure a "humane" kill of the animal. Even with the added barrel length of the carbine, I wouldn't be comfortable using it at 100 yards and would be hesitant much over 50.
Check out the ballistics of a 40 S&W versus a typical short-mid range rifle round like the 30-30:
http://www.shootingtimes.com/ballistics/30_30_winchester.html http://www.shootingtimes.com/ballistics/40_s_w.html