Car load of punks shows up at my house...

We don't have fences or gates here, but a dog is a great deterrent. One night I heard a car park across the road and heard voices that sounded like young males, so I opened the garage door and walked out with the German Shepard we were babysitting. Car goes peeling off. Since then I got a puppy!

I also like the driveway alarm and plan on getting one.

Slow, you can carry any way you like in 50 states on your property.

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Not in NY. Well, if you have a permit. No permit, you can't even own a handgun.

I can picture granny pulling up in Nio's driveway....

"Woah! is that a gun in your pants or (puts on glasses) WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS?! Kids look away!!!"

I'm reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry's girlfriend did everything naked and in his attempt to explain to her that some things just shouldn't be done au naturale, he rented a power sander and sanded his apartment floors in the nude. Nio, I hope you're not using anything with a PTO cuz just thinking about it is making my eyes water.

Nio posted -
To fully appreciate this picture, you also have to understand that when I worked on my own property here in the deep south, it was my usual habit not to wear any clothes. (Washing clothes was a hell of a drain on my water an electric. Seeing how I was mostly off-grid, it was more efficient to just wash me than wash clothes...)

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Well...I guess a pocket gun is not an option!

Well...I guess a pocket gun is not an option!

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On the plus side, I think I just invented a new kind of holster. On the minus side, I want to claw my eyes out to get the image out of my head. It gives whole new meaning to the concept of guns as phallic symbols.

--Len.

Hmmm, never thought of that. What size? 350? 396? I assume you'd want one of the larger pistons? How do you carry it? Do you have a sling shot to use with it or do you just fling it?

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LOL

I ALWAYS wear a gun outside at home and inside too , one day my son's PO came by and he asked my son if I always wore one .

Tio - Damn that made my day , but at least I wear a pair of ratty old shorts

Biker - Is that steel toe to the crotch comment from the voice of exprience ??

No gates, signs? people can't read I guess, and nothing grafic
enough to get their Attention. Day time solutions a 90# German
Shorthair that believes her property is shared with me. She goes
on alert before a car stops on pavement, before turning down an
400 ft. driveway. Mostly a firearm travels up hill where stupid is
watching the dog steam his window while making clacking noise
on his window glass and toe nail scratches on the paint Usually
leave before I get up the hill on his off side.
Night time, sensored floods with a dog greeting. Mostly I don't
have time to explain that perhaps they are at the wrong address!
Some problems will delivery people; however, they stay in their vehicle
and honk their horns for me to pick up deliveries. The firearm is
only in case of things going badly and there never has been a challege
situation. There are no back ups for this sparsely populated area.
but a lot of CCWs

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carry a piston on u. i do most of the times, even around the house.

Hmmm, never thought of that. What size? 350? 396? I assume you'd want one of the larger pistons?

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I only go with the big bores, at least a 409, but preferably a 429 or 460. You just can't rely on those sub-caliber pistons for a one whack stop.


bob

I also live in the backwoods, about 800' off the main road. We have a no trespassing sign up but the stinking ivy keeps growing over it so we sometimes have un-expected visitors drive down our driveway for U turns & the like. Happily, I've never had a experience similar to the OP.

I'd reccomend getting that gate.

DCPELTON, I'm not trying to jump on your case but it really helps your case when you use proper grammar & spelling.

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I always pocket carry around the house when working, washing the car, mowing etc. I just don't see any reason not to.

I second the gate, and would add some kind of alert, even a simple bell that rings when a vehicle crosses it.

Thirdly, with a pregnant wife and baby out back, what the heck where you thinking going towards the hoodlums in the car?

I've kicked around the idea of a gate. We too live in a rural area with a long driveway, but the driveway only leads to the house, so I don't have through traffic.

We barely get unannounced visitors, and when we do it's usually my neighbor walking over with a stack of gun magazines or to show me a new toy that goes boom... love the neighbors! If someone came down the driveway in a car, I'd be able to hear the gravel moving around under their tires and the dogs would let me know someone was coming. A gate will stop a car, but I've got several hundred feet of unfenced property (heavy woods) on all sides of the house. Someone could stop at the gate and then make it down the driveway on foot... and I'd lose the gravel noise.

People are generally lazy... given a choice, every single one of them will drive right up instead of walking.

Steve

+10,000 for the gate.

I'm in a rather odd living situation where my house is behind a heavy duty remote gate. Normally, the gate keeps out essentally everyone that has no business on the properties beyond the gate. However, the motherboard fried recently and we are waiting for a new one to be installed. In the short time that it's been open, we have TONS of unauthorized traffic at all hours of the day and night.

When the home restoration I am doing is complete, I will still be behind this gate, but I am also installing another one at the entrance to my driveway to add another layer of filter.


-- John

You have a really difficult situation here. A man shouldn't have to go about his own property, armed to the teeth, especially when he wants to wear shorts and go barefoot, and so does his family. Unfortunately, this seems to be what this world is coming to.

I tend to agree with the gate and fence folks. Is there some way to block or direct movement with barriers so that you have direct and uninhibited access to an area where you can store a defensive weapon in short order? Can a decent outbuilding (tool/equipment storage) be placed where you and/or your family can have an alternative location for cover, if direct pathways to the house are blocked?

Would a pepper/cs device be either easier to carry or stash closer to the family outdoor areas? How about a pitchfork, in a pinch? A Wristrocket with .50 or .60 cal lead balls (blackpowder ammunition)? A garden pump sprayer with noxious fluid? Molotov cocktail....okay, I'm getting out of hand, I know.....Anyway, the point being that using improvised weapons might slow down invaders until you can get to your primary defense. There several farming/gardening implements that would have looked natural in your hands as you approached that car.

This is a tough one, and a circumstance I wish you didn't even have to think about. Happy to hear that you and your family are safe.

RR

After some thought ... Tirade deleted by ZeSpectre.

You know, I think I'm just having a bad day and one specific part of BVMR's post set me off. Not very high road and also a thread hijack.

Apologies to all 'specially bvmr. I think I just need to have a walk and let the rest of today's crud slide off of me.

Ze

Geez, maybe I am overly sensitive. Do women still like that?

Navy, sorry for the hijack. I promise not to use your thread off subject again.

bvmr

BVMR,
Do agree about the hijack (sorry to the OP).
Will PM you and we can continue this debate if you'd like.

Good thread NG! Take care of yourself!

Country Living is a blessing but it comes with some strings attached - wandering/rabid critters that creep and crawl, clueless or malicious people that may show up uninvited

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That sounds like subdivision living to me! I'll never go back!! At least I have some buffer around me... my wife says I like it 'cause I can pee off the porch!

Jim in Texas

used to stash a glock under a rock outside. least likely to be found there

I live in a very remote place and I seldom have a gun with me, if I do have a gun it's because of a critter. That being said, I would never had done what you did, I would have got the wife and kid in the house, armed myself and waited to see what they did next.

one other things you may want to consider is a "trip" sensor at the entrance to the road/gate that links to a pager/cell (Gate is still a very good idea) if it's a long driveway they hit the trip. your beeper/cell does it's thing and you have time to get to you little friend. (a company I work with has been installing more and more of these units localy since the meth traffic got worse)

I'm near a half a mile off the paved road on a driveway that ends at my house on my 40 acres. It passes one neighbor down near the highway on the way to my place. Beyond the neighbor I have a gate and I also have sensors (PIR) that are spaced along the driveway at 150 yard intervals. Starting at the bottom furthest from my home if that sensor is tripped it causes an alarm in my bedroom and a repeater in my kitchen to emit one long beep. The next one up the hill produces two beeps, then three and so on until all four have tripped and I not only know someone is coming but I know the speed of their approach. At night they are met with blinding light in their eyes and covered with my 10mm and my wifes 9mm, wife and I are in total darkness looking at the very brightly illuminated intruder(s). We normally do not close the gate except when going away for days, on new years eve and the fourth of July which seem to be major trouble dates in our area. I'd like to install tripwires in some of the draws leading up to my mountain top but even flash bangs could cause injury to our deer and my dogs to say nothing of the fire hazard.

I live in the east mountains outside Albuquerque on ten acres. I carry even if I'm outside in my "shortes'! I have a belt with a Blackhawk holster on it that is perfect to just throw on and go outside with no matter what I'm wearing at home. Even has a Surefire holster and 3Z on it and two extra mags.

I mainly have it on outside for Mountain Lions, or bears but bad guys beware as well!

Originally posted by DCPelton do not use or get an sks. they r not reliable or accurate. u need a revolver of high cal. or a shot gun w/ sum buckshot. i wouldnt leave a gun out side ether. it will get rusty on ya. take one out w/ u when u go and put it up high sum where out of reach of the yung uns. use common sense bout itdick

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Are you for real? Just how long have you been around guns, especially SKSs?

You shouldn't make judgments about a tool of which there have been hundreds of thousands made because your one example failed. Do some research first. The SKS is practically the most reliable self loading firearm ever made, and like most rifles offers way more practical accuracy than any revolver or shotgun.