orangeninja
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Hello All,
last night after work, about 12:30AM or so my wife and I took our dogs out for a quick walk in our neighborhood. We walked about 100 yards or so out and I heard a dog bark. Looked around, didn't see anything, so we walked about 25 or so more yards when a white and brown pit bull about 85lbs comes from between two cars towards us and our dogs. I had a Glock 19, and started to reach for it, but remembered that I brought along my Inova XO3 http://www.inovalight.com/site.html?XO3-ov with a lanyard cord hanging out of my pocket. I had just enough time to get the light out and illuminate the dog about 5 feet from my dog. The pit bull stopped in his tracks, turned around and hauled butt behind a large truck in the driveway. That light in his eyes had a reaction as if he had hit a wall.
My wife noticed the dog's owner watching the whole thing through the front window, yet she did nothing until I lit the dog up. I suppose that owner would have found it real funny if I had not had my flashlight, (which normally I don't) and simply had to shoot the dog. When I illuminated her dog, she came running out and called the pit into the house.
My wife asked me, "would you have shot the dog?" I told her that if it had attacked us or our dogs I would have......our neighborhood is lit, dimly, but lit, so normally I don't carry a light, but last night, for some reason, I felt I should have one. Weird.
Lesson learned, I suppose a light can save some heartburn a shooting would cause.
last night after work, about 12:30AM or so my wife and I took our dogs out for a quick walk in our neighborhood. We walked about 100 yards or so out and I heard a dog bark. Looked around, didn't see anything, so we walked about 25 or so more yards when a white and brown pit bull about 85lbs comes from between two cars towards us and our dogs. I had a Glock 19, and started to reach for it, but remembered that I brought along my Inova XO3 http://www.inovalight.com/site.html?XO3-ov with a lanyard cord hanging out of my pocket. I had just enough time to get the light out and illuminate the dog about 5 feet from my dog. The pit bull stopped in his tracks, turned around and hauled butt behind a large truck in the driveway. That light in his eyes had a reaction as if he had hit a wall.
My wife noticed the dog's owner watching the whole thing through the front window, yet she did nothing until I lit the dog up. I suppose that owner would have found it real funny if I had not had my flashlight, (which normally I don't) and simply had to shoot the dog. When I illuminated her dog, she came running out and called the pit into the house.
My wife asked me, "would you have shot the dog?" I told her that if it had attacked us or our dogs I would have......our neighborhood is lit, dimly, but lit, so normally I don't carry a light, but last night, for some reason, I felt I should have one. Weird.
Lesson learned, I suppose a light can save some heartburn a shooting would cause.