Eightball
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There may or may not be a S&W J-frame floating around in the glovebox of my old Jeep Cherokee. Really freakin' small glove box (from when they were a "glove box" instead of a "crap carrier"), so I needed a smallish gun anyway to fit/share space with owner's manual, etc.
Not only is .38 +P fine, so is the barrel length, etc, from distances ranging from "me" to "outside the car door." Never have to worry about the mag getting ejected or unseated, either, and it WILL fire when I pull the trigger.
Call me a screwhead if you want, but I've put some serious thought into putting one of those Taurus Judges out there stoked with some of that Federal Hangun .410 defense ammo....because from "me" to "outside the car window" distances, it'd do plenty w/o much worry of overpenetration.
YMMV, but I want a gun that can handle any temperature extreme w/o worrying about mag spring tension, if the mag is still seated properly, if lint somehow gets on it, etc etc etc, over a period of years of "not checking on it" if need be (I do check it, but still).
Not only is .38 +P fine, so is the barrel length, etc, from distances ranging from "me" to "outside the car door." Never have to worry about the mag getting ejected or unseated, either, and it WILL fire when I pull the trigger.
Call me a screwhead if you want, but I've put some serious thought into putting one of those Taurus Judges out there stoked with some of that Federal Hangun .410 defense ammo....because from "me" to "outside the car window" distances, it'd do plenty w/o much worry of overpenetration.
YMMV, but I want a gun that can handle any temperature extreme w/o worrying about mag spring tension, if the mag is still seated properly, if lint somehow gets on it, etc etc etc, over a period of years of "not checking on it" if need be (I do check it, but still).