Ep. 402 | Defending Your Castle — Carbine, Shotgun, or Pistol?

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The drywall dust has settled. Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn are back in the podcast studio analyzing their respective home defense firearm choices — and how they performed. Gel, drywall, and a move-and-shoot course made for an interesting test yielding interesting results. What are you selecting to defend your castle? This episode may help guide that decision.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast, brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment, and good food.
0:17.6	What is up, everybody, and welcome to cartridge talks fully loaded.
0:22.4	This is Best for Home Defense.
0:26.4	Now, Ryan, a little bit ago in the folks, if they haven't, they can watch on the YouTube machine.
0:33.6	We did a bit of a breakdown, a bit of a selection.
0:39.0	We did some exercises, if you will.
0:42.9	Jazzercise.
0:43.8	A little jazz or size.
0:45.4	Show me your jazz hands.
0:46.4	Show me your jazz hands.
0:51.2	We, uh, we both picked our, our home defense horse, if you will, the implement that we thought would best suit our home defense needs, our home defense situation.
1:04.8	Put them through their paces a little bit.
1:06.7	Shot them through a little course, shot them into gel, shot them through a very nice wall.
1:13.9	It was a good wall.
1:15.3	And if you want to watch all this go down, like I said, go to the YouTube channel.
1:19.6	It's one of our cartridge talks episodes.
1:23.2	And that's what we're recapping right now.
1:27.0	Some caveats. What are they? Well, we're recapping right now. Some caveats.
1:28.4	What are they?
1:29.5	Well, we lift some very popular guns off the table.
1:33.1	Yes.
1:34.0	Namely, the AR-15.
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