Home invasion last weekend - saved by .22LR

[steelhead]

I had to take a life, last Saturday, during a home invasion....

Saturday morning approx 7:00 am, I hear my wife screaming from the downstairs. I jump up, grab my Kimber Pro Tac II and run down and find her in near hysterics and pointing at the bathroom door which is closed. She finally gets it out that there is a mouse and she wants it out of the house.

Ok, no problem . I grab a small box and a stick and I open the door to find the intruder. I find the mouse sitting behind the toilet and off to one side. I take my stick and start to prod but the tactically well trained mouse (whom I shall name Agent Smith) jumps up and out 6 inches and promptly runs between my legs, into the family room, and under a couch. I proceed to flip over the couch and begin a new search on my hands and knees. There is a lot of exposed framing underneath, so I start jabbing with the stick. A couple seconds go by and then my wife screams as "Agent Smith" falls on top of my head, runs down my back, onto the floor, and under the love seat:banghead:. I then flip up the love seat and immediately the little bugger runs across the room and under a corner bookcase .

Having learned from my previous mistakes, I go to my safe and load up my 317 kit gun with .22 Aguila Colibri's and grab my Surefire light. I then proceed back to the bookcase and lean over and point my light down in the corner. I then cock the revolver and take aim as the little guy
looks up .

With no regrets and no remorse, I pulled the trigger and with one shot from 3.5 feet - I ended it .

I picked up the mouse and the wife does one of these as what is left is not a pretty sight.

That's my story and I'm stickin to it.

 

[CrudeGT]

Did you make sure and notify the local law enforcement that were able to find the intruder and stop the local theif? and that everyone's cheese is now safe?

 

[horge]

Ah.
Another 'mouse gun' story.

Thanks





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[sm]

[James Cagney voice]
You dirty rat...

Another point for the use of right tools for task, and heavy furniture used as shooting lanes...

 

[Travis McGee]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[The_Antibubba]

Don't tell Sarah Brady!

Undoubtedly, this would be considered the gun death of a child!

 

[Preacherman]

Not to mention the use of assault furniture prior to the killing!

 

[Iron Mike]

Home invasion

Here in New Jersey you would have to show proof that your life was threatened and that there was no chance of escape and under no circumstances should you use hollow points!

 

[Ivy Mike]

shooting guns in the house!

My momma always taught me that the fun toys belong outside. I would used a bb gun. Red Ryder to the rescue.

 

[eagle10]

Wasn't there a old book that referred to this - I think it was called 'Of Mice and Men'.

 

[entropy]

I recall a story in 'National Lampoon' about the author's "Uncle Mike", who would sit around in his kitchen at 3:00 AM, drunk and high, with a .25ACP waiting for mice and rats to pop out of the many holes in the wall.....you story was even better!

 

[MLH]

PETA

Will be on your doorstep shortly. It's was wrong to poke the poor thing with a stick. That's abuse and you should be taken out back and given 20 lashes!

 

[FPrice]

FWIW...

I have an attack-trained cat to handle this sort of work for me.

He's good.

Very good.

 

[MrKandiyohi]

The first mistake was to not close the bathroom door and put a towel along the bottom of it. Keep the little bugger trapped in the toidy.

Next time try for a head shot, so you don't ruin the meat.

 

[Delmar]

I hear they taste just like chicken......

 

[shermacman]

I am appalled.
You acted unilaterally, without regard for the feelings of your neighbors, your countrymen or the Europeans. You acted alone, a typical cowboy. Do you have any idea how the rest of the world views your actions? You have lost the respect of France and Germany and Cameroon! International prestige is not easily recovered! You have squandered the good will that so much of the world had for us after 9-11. That mouse was no threat to you, it didn’t have teeth big enough to bite you.
I suspect that you listened to the people who you have chosen to surround yourself, they told you lies about intelligence that links mice and disease, destruction and filthy messes. You could have inspected the mouse and his domain more carefully, but no…Mr. American cowboy, you shot it.
You should have called the UN.

 

[R.H. Lee]

$600+ worth of equipment to get rid of a 3 cent rodent. Sounds like Iraq.

 

[Alfadog]

Having learned from my previous mistakes, I go to my safe and load up my 317 kit gun with .22 Aguila Colibri's and grab my Surefire light. I then proceed back to the bookcase and lean over and point my light down in the corner. I then cock the revolver and take aim as the little guy looks up.

Well did you use the Harries or Rogers technique?

 

[Mikul]

Shoot, shovel and shut up.

Well, if it's a mouse, you can tell us about it. Good job.

FYI, If you ever need to kill a mouse, do not use a weed whacker.

 

[clipse]

My father-in-law had a similar deal about a week ago. Only he didn't have a screaming wife, and he used CCI shot shells in .22lr. Very very little mess. He thought about having taxidermist stuff the little creature and mount him on his wall.

Sounds like you had quite the mini safari. Congrats on your successful hunt.

clipse

 

[Havegunjoe]

Had a similar experience last winter.

The little devil took up residence in my garage. I spotted his behind sticking out from some shelving and I dispatched the little bugger with one shot from a bb gun. One more notch on the old belt.

 

[Justin]

You catch more mice with cheese than with bullets.

 

[sumpnz]

I have an attack-trained cat to handle this sort of work for me.

My German Shepherd/Chows do pretty quick work on rodents themselves. A mouse managed to get in when my wife left the sliding glass door partly open one evening. The girls (i.e. dogs) noticed it first, and within 30 seconds it was dead. They had to work in tandem to get it though. One to flush it out, the other to pounce and chomp. Out in the yard they've killed untold numbers of mice, pack rats, prarie dogs, rabbits and lizards.

 

[RustyHammer]

so, you pulled your "mouse" gun, aye!

 

[Third_Rail]

$600+ worth of equipment to get rid of a 3 cent rodent. Sounds like Iraq.