"So My Alarm Goes Off at 0330."

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I imagine when you pop the lights the perp is going to make some noise, if only in motion or surprise. Gives you the upper hand potentially... that X10 stuff looks cooler and cooler. :)
 
The appropriate verbal challenge when a naked homeowner takes a burglar at gunpoint is of course,
"Now let's you just drop them pants." :what:
 
Just remember one thing about the "pop the lights" senario - what affects the perp ALSO AFFECTS YOU! You will both have that moment of blindness when the lights come on, so I think a weapon mounted flashlight would work better.
 
Because of the nocturnal "no pockets" problem, I keep a belt with holster, spare mags and LED light next to my S&W 669 9mm in the nightstand. The light can go in the holster if necessary (or between the teeth, if I'm not carrying my Bowie there)

I'm currently doing exercses to enable me to turn the flashlight on with my tongue

I'm gonna try to talk Zastrina into that outfit.:D

And could'ya explain those exercises again;)
 
I had one once that was interesting.
Back in like the middle 80's I had put a alarm in one of my cars. It was a old ford state 4 door car with lots of miles on it. Used it for running around town. Anyway I had just got back from a hunting trip on a sunday night and wanted to do some salmon in the smoker. After that I crashed and around midnight my alarm on the old car went off. I put some pants and shoes on and grabed my 45 auto and out I went. I took the long way around and found that someone was still inside my car laying across the front seat.

They were surprized and did not like going to jail.
What I thought was funny is when the cops showed up they said nobody they had run across did what I did.
What I did was I had a alarm that you could shut off the horn if you wished and just used the remote pager with a alarm on it. In other words the crook never new the alarm had gone off as it was silent on the car.

The crook was unhooking the alarm and thought it went with the stereo when I got to him. He had everything else out already.

so I had always used the horn alarm when I would be out away from mycars and the silent alarm when close. Made for a few interesting encounters.
 
I fixed the "no pockets" problem by getting a fanny pack to keep by the bedside. It's got my gun, a flashlight, and a spare mag. The cell phone is plugged into the charger sitting on top of it.

If something wakes me up, I can slap the fanny pack on in a heartbeat and I'm ready to go with all the stuff I need.

Oh, and hso's right. Stupid to be wandering around your house if you think someone's in it. The professionals call that "looking for someone to kill you." Smart hunters sit still and are well-prepared to pounce when their prey appears.

pax
 
I always house-clear (apartment-clear, really) at least twice a day. I have an alarm, but alarms can be cut/cracked/etc. I check the closets and anyplace else big enough to hide someone - first when I come home, second before I go to bed. If the alarm goes off, I'll call the police and keep a bead drawn on the door.

As for the bed gun dilemma, I wear a FS dagger in a drop-leg sheath to bed, since it's thin enough to not bother me. There's a pocket in the sheath that just fits a 7-rd 1911 mag. I keep the 10-rd in the gun, between nightstand and bed. Sometimes put a lanyard on the gun (GI45 model) and wear it over shoulder, so I can just trace that line to find what I need.

Lanyards (I mean plain paracord or something like it, not the PVC line) are unappreciated, in my book. They're very good to have if you're working outdoors, so that if your gun flies out of your holster (had it happed several times with the M7 shoulder holster - wood chopping is probably the ultimate test of a holsters' retention abilities) it won't drop in the mud, and more important still, it won't get lost.
 
Just for peace of mind. It's a gated community, seems to be a in good part of town, but I like to check the place over, in the remote chance that somebody picks my apartment to loot.
 
If you think the bad guy might cut the power before breaking in, you could put a small inexpensive UPS (battery backup) on key strategic lamps. You'd still be able to light up the place.
One thing to consider when doing this in combination with X10-type systems:

X10 modules communicate across the power lines in your house by modulating a high-frequency, low-power signal on the wire. To a UPS or a surge protector, that looks like line noise, and is generally filtered out. In my experience you can't put an X10-controlled device on a UPS and have it work.

The exception to this is if you plug the device into the actual wireless-receiver module, because it gets its signal from the antenna and controls its output directly. But you can only have one of these modules per house-code, so you must be judicious about what you choose to control with it.

-BP
 
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