ot bump in the night.

[block head]

Woke up to the dogs losing their minds. Fumble for glasses to look out back. Car alarm starts going off in the front. Whole thing lasted maybe 30 seconds. My poor neighbor (duplex) was home alone and heard someone trying to enter her backdoor. 911 didn't want to send a car out to my neighbor because she couldn't see anyone. Wasn't a good night. Whoever it was made a very wise decision not try my door. I really don't get it. We've got a very modest duplex. Car is a 07 versa with a factory stereo. My sissy french bird dog made me proud. Poor dog could have woke the dead . She was wearing a bark collar. Each bark gives a good zap.

 

[Jacwil]

Wow!!! Glad no one got hurt and all ended well.

On a side note...is it wrong that I'd dare someone to break into my place?

 

[block head]

I could care less about my stuff. 17 years of marriage has sapped my will to pick a fight. Enter my house uninvited... i' ll make time for drywall repair and paint.

 

[NirvanaFan]

My wife's car got broken into last year. It really makes you think about how much you trust total strangers, and what they will do. I'm still trying to convince my wife (and others I know) to get her CCW.

 

[Jacwil]

I've filled out my ccw so many ties I've lost count...I always stall out at fingerprinting lol. I hear now you actually need to schedule an appt and a subcontractor does the printing...pricey too!

 

[NirvanaFan]

I picked up the application twice in Ontario County and didn't end up finishing it. Monroe Country made me pay for it all up front and I made sure to get it all done.

I highly recommend everyone get theirs, whether you plan on getting a pistol or not. My grandfather died and nobody else in the family had theirs. The old Smith and Wesson was put on consignment at Creekside. When they went out of business, the gun was gone. I would love to have that pistol as a remembrance of my grandfather.

I don't really trust too many people, and carry most places that I go.

 

[Jacwil]

Ugh...that's a bummer re: Gramps' S&W!

Similar story..my step-grandfather passed away and although not as nice as the S&W, he had a Ruger Mark2 .22 pistol...my stepmom turned it over to police. By the time I got out of the Air Force and called the station up to have my uncle p/u the pistol, they had lost it!

 

[NirvanaFan]

Mark II are awesome plinkers. There aren't many pistols that are more accurate than them.

 

[emm0909]

I'm with you Block Head on repairing the drywall. I don't know if I'd waste the time to spare the person. If you're ballsy enough to come through my door you're ballsy enough to harm me and my family. To me that says that you're ballsy enough to run from a shot gun. The first one is target load. The second one is much less than a warning.

Completely unrelated to a thief - My dog was going nuts the other night in the back yard. I thought the neighbors dog had gotten off the leash and had come over to say hello (This happens often). So I leisurely walked out back to find out that she wasn't barking at a just a dog, but a dog being attacked by two raccoons. I'm not 100% if it was a dog but it had a deep growl like a 60lb+ dog and I'd doubt a coyote would challenge two raccoons and a fox wouldn't make that noise. After the two coons ran up the trees I could hear the dog whimpering on the ground. I grabbed a flashlight but it was already gone by the time I got out there. So I hung out with the two raccoons about five feet away from me and had a beer with them. They are comical. I love my raccoons.

 

[NirvanaFan]

The first one is target load. The second one is much less than a warning.

What is the second one?

Have you ever been shot with target load? I used to work at a shooting preserve and was hit a couple times. Even about 100' away, and through a bunch of leaves, it didn't feel very good.

 

[Jacwil]

Lol...raccoons=dumpster vermin!!!

My bro in law and I were coyote hunting this past winter and as we were walking by a tree a 'coon started *****in' at us. We ignored it and setup to call for the 'yotes about 75' past said tree.

We started the electronic call, rabbit distress, and that big boar 'coon came flying dwn the tree and charged us! The first time I simply stood up and yelled and it turned around and went back up the tree. The second time he charged he ended up with a serious headache

 

[emm0909]

Yeah, I'm going to have to take care of them eventually but for now they amuse me. They run around the house at night and trip over the down spouts. The wife flips out thinking someone is trying to break in. They scream at people when they try to walk through my yard at night, including me. HAHA.

 

[Jacwil]

LOL....that's hilarious.

I'm not that fond of them. Probably has something to do with the fact that when i was a young child, my bedroom window opened to the back porch. The back porch had like 364 bird feeders that fed the mass family of about 15 'coons. The noise that came from them as they squabbled over the seed was uh...SPECIAL! lol

 

[NirvanaFan]

I remember throwing marshmallows down the bank at my uncle's cabin as a kid. You would wake up around 3am to them fighting over them.

 

[emm0909]

Block Head, I totally hijacked your thread.

 

[Jacwil]

Block Head, I totally hijacked your thread.

Off topic threads are fair-game!!! :beer:

 

[rjmayes34]

Block head, glad to hear everything is good. Stinks when you hear them stories.

I dont know if i would give the person the curticy (cant spell it and im so far off spell check is no help ) to use a target load for shot 1. You had time to reason with your self while walking up to my house through my lawn and before you came through my door. When it comes to my family i wont play! Dont send the police send the coroner!!

O and thats if my dogs did not tear them up!! A great dane and a mixed mut (whos runs the house)

 

[block head]

No worries on thread jacking. Spent way to much time working in supermax prisons. I dont give warning shots. 12g are messy at close range.

 

[Capt_Cully]

That's what I tell my wife. I won't kill anyone, but dome #4 turkey shot in the shins will get the message across and be tough to explain at the local emergency room. The logistics of someone picking it out at home is even funnier to me.

"this is a Magnum PI. It could get lodged under the skin and leave a very nasty infection!"

Glad you didn't have to make that decision James. Right after my daughter was born someone went through my truck with me asleep on the couch 20 feet away. My wife said she saw the lights come on when the door was opened but she was so delirious from sleep deprivation, she thought she was hallucinating. Then the cops showed up. We were house #10 on a park, smash, grab, run, drive away.

Wish I had that one to do over again.