IndyGlockMan

If you don't have confidence in 9mm, you could get a Glock 21 (45acp) and couple 27 round mags. Police trade Glock 21's with night sights are available for around $400-425. Mount a flashlight and you've got an incredible home defense tool. Some big dogs help too...

That's a very fortunate outcome for your BIL but it is easily an exception to the rule. Incidents like this are not the norm and does not validate the use of lasers and brandishing your gun to scare somebody off, IMHO. If the teen had been armed and saw the laser, he could have shot first and killed you BIL. Using a laser before shooting can cause a fatal hesitation that will give the bad guy time to respond. It's not wise to show your cards before betting, but in this case it worked out for your BIL.

I have the Utah permit which allows me to carry in Ohio. With Indiana & Utah's combined reciprocity, I'm good to carry in 38 states I think... have to go back and check... Not a fan of lasers. They are not a substitute for skill and are just a gimmick IMHO. If you shine the laser at a bad guy to try and spook him off, that's considered brandishing and could cause you legal issues. Might as well shoot if you already have the gun out and pointed at him.

Fishers/Indy area here... Frozen over, counting the days 'til our first club tournament on April 9th at Patoka Lake...

I use braid for fishing in thick cover. Floro for texas rigged plastics & jerk baits 12lb mono for crank baits. You need a little stretch and a sideways sweeping hook set works best for me

Here in Indiana, the orange belly cranks seem to do better on overcast days with lower daytime light.

For a home defense handgun, it's tough to beat a Glock 17 9mm with a 33 round mag and flashlight attached. By all means, go to a range, try out different guns, and take some training. It's a lot of fun and you will learn a lot. Buy lots of ammo for practice. Not just a couple boxes, I mean a couple cases. You have a lot of learning to do and there's no better teacher than practice, practice, practice. Yes, it's going to cost a lot of money. If you are married, take the wife to training classes too even if she doesn't want to learn how to shoot. If there's a gun in the house, she needs to be up to speed on gun safety. Don't be one of those guys that buys a gun, shoots half a box of ammo and calls it good. 33 round mag... you bet. The average self defense/home invasion is usually against 3+ intruders. You will need more than 5 rounds, so bring enough for everybody plus a few more. Check out www.ingunowners.com Great form here in Indiana and we have lots of members from other states too. Good luck!

I'd go 1/2 ton truck. Probably a Chevy or GMC. Get a 4x2 not a 4x4 if you want better gas mileage and lower maintenance. Also make sure it has the stock size wheels & tires. Big wheels & tires kill your mileage too. Chevy trucks are easy to maintain, there are parts available everywhere and they are inexpensive.

Sweet video! I was also thinking of the black. 1 white, 1 black - covers the bases pretty well.

Ok, that's encouraging. Preytorien... Which color do you like best for Indiana lakes? I was thinking bone white or Gill bone

Can't imagine it would get a lot of strikes unless we could figure out the best time of year, time of day, and conditions to throw it. Seems like early morning just after the spawn when you would normally throw a buzz bait, when the water is stained, or when you know the fish are up shallow on flats... just thinking out loud.

I found this today while browsing fishing videos. Looks like an interesting alternative to using a buzz bait or similar noisy top water lures. so, who's fished it? I'd like to try one, but the $23 price tag is holding me back https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Jackall_Pompadour/descpage-JPOMP.html?from=basres

Where are you in the country? I'd say the 7" Power Bait worm in Green Pumpkin for me. Zoom trick worms work great around here too.

skipping under docks... I can do it 1 out of every 3-4 tries and by that time I've scared off the fish. Almost always back lash too.

I can't wait to try the 6th Sense bait I received in my MTB Pro last month. I got the square bill blue gill pattern. Looks killer!

10" Blue Fleck 'Ole Monster worm

I really like Lews Speed Spool for $90-100 I recently purchased two BPS Pro Qualifiers for $50 each and they are surprisingly nice and smooth

With today's new self defense bullet technology, 9mm can be pretty nasty especially +P rounds. Don't fall prey to the old stereo types about 45 acp 1 shot knock down power crap. 45acp is an awesome round, but big awesome bullets don't take the place of training, practice, shot placement, etc... Today's 9mm rounds are more than capable, so don't worry about which is the biggest & badest. How the heck are you going to conceal carry a FNP 45 Tactical? That's a huge gun. Sure, it's cool, but not practical for CC. Is this your first handgun?? 9mm is better for first time gun owners. It's cheaper, less recoil, and you will need to practice with it a lot to get your skills up. 45acp is also great but more expensive to shoot, and is more for the seasoned experienced gun people IMHO. Make sure you choose a gun you can afford to shoot because you'll want to run at least 300-500 rounds through it for break in and to get to know your gun. After 25 years of shooting, I still love my Glock 19 9mm. I own other guns (Sigs, Rugers, Walther, Les Baer 1911, etc...) but I always seem to feel most at home with the Glock. I did all of my training with Glocks so that's to be expected, but my Glock 19's have never let me down and I'm dead nuts accurate & fast with it.

There's Chigger Craws and there's Crazy Legs Chigger Craws. I prefer the crazy legs and have done better with them than the standard Chigger I love the smell of PowerBait in the morning...

right now, Wal-marts around here have plastics marked down pretty cheap but don't have a big variety. Dick's is starting their clearance stuff too we just had a new Cabelas open here, so it's going to be hard to me to stay out of that place

Right now in the summer, I don't go out with out 7" & 10-11" worms Texas rigged and will probably fish them first. Rage craws are next, then maybe a senko or crank, but will likely use worms and craws all day.

I got to fish for about an hour today after work at a neighborhood pond and broke out the Zoom ole monster 10" worm in June bug. It had just quit raining and the sky was still cloudy. I tossed the worm out around the middle and worked it back, but nothing. On one particular retrieve, I was reeling in the worm across the moss getting ready to make another cast when a bass jumped out of no where and grabbed it! The bass were all up shallow in some nasty moss & grass around the sides of the pond. So I started working the worm over the moss and in a basic slow swimming type retrieve and the bass seemed to bust out of no where to get at it! Caught 1 little one with high hopes, 2 around 1.5-2lb, and 1 about 2.5 lb. the bigger one came out of the moss so fast and grabbed the worm so quick, it startled me. It's that time of year for big worms and I'm going to enjoy it!

I try to keep it simple because I have a sit-inside wilderness systems yak. 2 rods, small drink cooler, small tackle bag with what I need for the day. Clippers on my vest and I keep a pair of needle nose pliers in the tackle bag just in case along with my cell phone & fishing license. Glock 40cal in a mounted plastic holster up under the the front part of the opening with in easy reach.

I've only been bass fishing for about a year or so and when I started out, the first plastic bait I bought was a Berkely Power bait 7" worm in green pumpkin. I had some pretty good success fishing that and then grew my tackle box into more and more baits. I got to using so many other baits (spiners, cranks, rage craws, swim baits, etc...) the 7" worms took a back seat to all the other new baits. Yesterday, I'm fishing in a tournament as co-angler and I'm doing pretty good flipping Rage craws, then the bite went cold. My partner, who is very experienced fisherman, ties on a 10" Zoom worm in blue fleck and catches a 5 pounder with in a few casts, then catches a 2 pounder... After almost a year gathering dust in my tack bag, I broke out a 7" worm and caught a 3 pounder on the 2nd cast, then another 2 pounder. We caught our limit and ended up finishing 5th out of 25 boats, and I'm pretty happy with that... thanks to the good 'ole worm... Worms... I will never forget you again! LOL

I started Bass fishing last year and I barely have a fraction of the time that a lot of these guys have on the water. River fish up here can be tougher to catch and are often smaller on average than lake fish, but I'm in Indiana. Sounds like you have gotten off to a good start. The big ones are coming! Just got to figure out where they are, what they want to eat, and how and when they want to eat it. You might try using some Strike King Rage Craws. I catch most of my bass on those this time of year. Also watch the weather. Weather can be a big factor. I've found that if the weather is great for us, the fish are less active. If the weather sucks for us (raining, cold, windy) the bass are more active. Try fishing early in the morning a couple times vs. evening. You may have better luck. Lastly, look into joining a Bass fishing club.