Home intruder drill

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Dogs are really your best friend. Even a little "Fifi" will let you know if someone is hiding in a closet or corner.

My plan - should we ever actually have the misfortune of a break-in at night - is to hold the top of the stairs with a rifle. There is some cover there, fortunately on the left side for a right hander like me. The big old mutt usually sleeps downstairs on the couch, so she will already be engaged ( probably knocking down the intruder and licking his face ;) ). Next step is to call out to my daughter to turn her Belgian Malinois loose from her room :evil:

Deputy response is at least 30-45 minutes, so we really are on our own.
 
While the specific idea sounds a little strange, I think the core training concept behind the idea is quite sound.

WHATEVER your drill is, the more realistically you test it, the better the training.

This idea reminds me somewhat of the old "Hudson Bay Start" practiced by the old time fur trappers. On leaving for the beaver streams, they'd only travel a short distance the first day and set up camp for the night.

Inevitably, the mere practice of setting up camp would bring to the surface a whole slew of things forgotten, while they were still close enough to base to go back to get them.

In a late night breakin, the clock is running fast, a fatal fumble of just having your flashlight three inches in the wrong place can mean your dead, (or whatever).

It is easy to get into denial about just how very FEW seconds the average door will actually delay an intruder. I've not got over the shock of seeing a fireman (years ago) casually kick in an apartment door because smoke was coming from the apartment.

I don't know of any doors (except the very hardest metal ones,) that will delay two determined dudes who bring along some wrecking gear.

I agree that a small territorial dog is your best bet, but every system should have a backup.

I'd try this first when the rest of the family are gone.
 
Do you keep a phone and firearm in the bathroom(s)? Laugh but if intruders catch you off guard and they're not intent on killing you right away, they will most likely hold you in a bathroom. Just food for thought.
 
I say hire a kid to water your plants or something one night during the week, claiming you won't be home...
Forget to leave him the key...
Tell him that if the plants don't get watered, he gets drop kicked in the throat when you get back.
When he's forced to break in, go into defense mode, call 911, clear the house, shoot the kid in the buttox.
When the police arrive, deny everything.


The perfect plan.
 
Hope I don't offend, but I want to ask something I have been wondering for a LONG time.

Just how efficeint in protection are Labs?

All of the Labs I've seen are way too laid back, like they have been smoking doggie dope.

Truly, if it hits the fan,

will a Lab bite a scrote in the scrotum?

Any case histories out there?
 
No case histories, Tex, but I firmly believe that dogs, even those loveable, laid-back labs, bond with the family, given half a chance. My lab/GSD mix will likely lick you to death, once she drops her toy. That is as long as I'm not upset and laughing and telling her "It's OK". Someone busts in with ill-intent will likely be consumed with 100lbs of "tactical black"! Don't know the cause, we weren't home; but only once for some reason known only to her she took out the bottom half of the lauan basement door. Sure would like to know the story behind that!

Stay safe.
Bob
 
AS to dogs. Friend of mine had a mixed breed mutt. Loveable She said she wished he was more protective. I told her that KIE was very protective and not to worry.
Well a month later she calls. Seems a POS tried to break in via sliding door. Kie about had him for lunch before he was able to get over back fence. The family was KIE's family and he protected his family. RIP Kie.
 
Humm

I must be doing something wrong. When the BGs broke down the front door as a kid, I sent the young sibs under their beds, quite hurriedly I might add. I set myself up b/t that bedroom and the front door that was brick- batted in. All I had was .22 revo with 9 shots. Situation ended with us all safe, in one pc. The Front door was another matter...

Working the graveyard shift I arrived home about 8 am, taking a shower, and a new maintanence guy and new Res Mgr entered while I was in the shower...well that was a interesting introduction, they learned I owned at least one firearm as a result...

Learned that alarms can be silenced, and folks do break in and wait on you to come home...and "greet you" at the door - shotguns are great for HD. Only deal is I was and still am more concerned about entering and leaving my abode. CCW is good for this problem.

Some stuff cannot be "practiced". I guess I'll stick with "Thinking outside the Box", color codes, little tips and tricks I have learned the hard way, keep my attention and awareness up, use my brain and wear shoes with good traction...oh a firearm is a good tool along with others.

I'll be the guy in the bedroom , hunkered down in the Bedroom , having dialed the po-po direct with a code word given. If BG comes into Bedroom, and I am in fear...well he just enacted Act II.

Probably wrong tho'.
 
You could just set your vcr or tv or clock radio to a random time between 02:00 and 04:00 and crank the volume to max or min.
 
for those of us who are "unarmed"...

Given that the most brutal murderer in the next county in 40 years has my address (tried to reach out in Christian love, and YEAH, I knew what I was risking when I did it), and I've turned down recruitment from his gang (my PO was half amused and half really alarmed, since I'm NOT the banger type at all), I'm back to the drill when I lived back in Cleveland and worked with gang kids for YFC.

It goes like this:
1] There is a phone within arms reach of my pillow. Cops are armed, I'm not. Plus I serve half the force late nite coffee when they're on duty w/ graveyard shifts. #1 is to call the police.
2] I have a ground floor window, and I'm outta there through the screen if I have to be. Better to avoid a fight than have to hurt someone else or get hurt (which if they're prepared and I'm not, is simply more likely.
3] If #2 is not an option, then it's time to ready the blade and wait in the closet. Again, AVOIDING confrontation is the goal. NoTHING in my place is worth my life or anothers.
4] If #3 is not an option, you can't pull your trigger without a hand, or aim without eyes. No stupid Ki-up or other martial arts garbage, swing w/o warning or hesitation and hope the ambulance gets here in time to plug the hole in my gut. Got 21 years w/ swords, and while it's a pathetic match against an intruder, fighting back is preferable to surrender. Some things (like my life and health) are worth fighting for. To paraphrase Kung Fu the movie: "It is better to cripple than kill, better to maim then cripple, better to wound then maim, and better to flee than wound."

I know that fumbling in the dark is a bad idea, but I wake up faster than I'd want to, and violently after 10 years of being under threat of gang violence. For the record, this is NOT bragging, I regret this as it has frightened the hell out of some very good and peaceful people who don't deserve to get attacked just 'cause they woke me up unexpectedly. Swept a wonderful woman's legs out from under her while she stepped across me crashing on their floor. :confused: :( :banghead:

At least a sword isn't going to go off and blow my leg off, though Martin Luther dropped his through his foot as a law student (earliest 'Accidental Discharge' that I know about) 'cause he was swinging it in time to a song.

Seriously though, I know I'm at a serious disadvantage not having RKBA, but even a dog will bite if you walk into it's cage and try and take its food. But many people here are vastly superior to me tactically and have dozens of years more experience. Didn't know where else to put the question, but any advice on refining the plan is welcome.
 
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Myself I don't thing a blade is anything to skoff at with close quarters. I used to think the idea of getting out was reasonable. Now I realize what a BAD situation that puts you in. (going thru window you have NO defense/likely highlighted/off balance/etc)
You idea of getting in dark/corner and remove hand from gun sounds effective. Plus you never run out of ammo. Someday I will get into short swords but for now find them too $$$ or crap.
 
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