charlie echo
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- Dec 3, 2010
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Outstanding and thanks!I've got one, kind of. I actually had to draw my weapon, shoot it, and kill a threat. But it was a pack of wild dogs. Still, I was very very grateful that I was armed.
I live on four acres next to a swamp in the panhandle of Florida. My wife called me after lunch and let me know that, while she was taking our pet Greyhound for a walk, she was menaced by a pack of four wild dogs that chased her into the house and she was afraid to leave.
I got home somewhat late that night around 7:30 and it was dusk. I figured the dogs would have left by then so I got out of the car and walked to the backyard without stopping into the house to get my shotgun.
Anyway, as I was heading back around the old horse barn we have, I noticed four dogs lying down behind it. I whistled them up, hoping they would see me and hightail it. Instead, one of the dogs (the Alpha dog I guess) advanced toward me growling and barking with the other three following it. It was a long way back to the house, but fortunately I had a Smith & Wesson 642 J Frame revolver in my pocket. It was getting somewhat dark, and I was extremely glad I had the Crimson Trace grip on it. It gave me a lot more confidence that I could hit what I was aiming at even though it was a longer shot then I would've liked to take with a snub nose revolver.
Anyway, I put the laser on the chest of the lead dog, and pulled the trigger. Killed the alpha dog immediately and the other three disappeared so fast it was like they were teleported. I don't even remember seeing or hearing them leave. They just vanished. And they never came back.
That's my only CCW story, thankfully.
Will buy and install that Crimson aiming device you mentioned.
What bullet load were you using, please?