Horsesense
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I originally posted this on a lesser board, so I thought it would be interesting to bring it over to this one.
What do you guys think of the lay on the floor thing? It was total darkness, on the floor, and from that vantagepoint I would have the BG silhouetted against the sky ,at the time it felt right.
This happened years ago. We had just gotten married and were in the process of moving into our new house. We had a couch, bed, new TV&VCR and a few incidentals. We decided that we would stay the first night in our new home and finish moving everything else the next day.
We had rented a movie and when it went off, I turned off the TV and we went to bed. After about ten minuets, I heard it! Someone was trying to open the storm door! I had sold most all my guns for the down payment on the house and the only gun I had with me was a Mark 2 Ruger .22….why hadn't I sold it and kept my .357? I felt so stupid knowing that I had a perfectly good 12ga at my parent's house….and now when I really needed some firepower all I had was this dinky .22! No phone and it would take the Law half an hour to get hear anyway.
A sense of steely determination overcame me. This is my home and my wife, and NOBODY was going to do this to me!… if 10 shots to the chest will not stop this guy, I'll beat the dude over the head with my Ruger.
It was like everything was in slow motion…my senses were keen. I moved across the empty house like a cat stalking a mouse. I was operating on instinct..this was survival of the fittest and this intruder was about to be removed from the gene pool, with malice!
My eyes were adjusted to the dark and the light from the VCR was all I needed to see everything in the room clearly. Just then I heard the noise again.. he was still at the door…I took cover flat on the floor and partly concealed by a corner. OK.. think… do you really want to kill someone? No… I can see pretty good, if there is anything even remotely resembling a weapon … I will kill…if not, I'm going to yell FREEZE and hope he runs away.
Theirs the noise again, it sounds like he got the door open! This is it…just then…the tape popped out of the VCR! I had been hearing the VCR automatically rewinding!
I thought it would be fun to start a thread of false alarms. I learned a lot about tactics from this experience and figured that maybe some of you all could comment on lessons you have learned in false alarms.
#1 lesson, security is the first order of business.
I should have changed the locks
I should have had a light and a big gun
I should have already had the shoot or not shoot thing worked out before something happened.
What do you guys think of the lay on the floor thing? It was total darkness, on the floor, and from that vantagepoint I would have the BG silhouetted against the sky ,at the time it felt right.
This happened years ago. We had just gotten married and were in the process of moving into our new house. We had a couch, bed, new TV&VCR and a few incidentals. We decided that we would stay the first night in our new home and finish moving everything else the next day.
We had rented a movie and when it went off, I turned off the TV and we went to bed. After about ten minuets, I heard it! Someone was trying to open the storm door! I had sold most all my guns for the down payment on the house and the only gun I had with me was a Mark 2 Ruger .22….why hadn't I sold it and kept my .357? I felt so stupid knowing that I had a perfectly good 12ga at my parent's house….and now when I really needed some firepower all I had was this dinky .22! No phone and it would take the Law half an hour to get hear anyway.
A sense of steely determination overcame me. This is my home and my wife, and NOBODY was going to do this to me!… if 10 shots to the chest will not stop this guy, I'll beat the dude over the head with my Ruger.
It was like everything was in slow motion…my senses were keen. I moved across the empty house like a cat stalking a mouse. I was operating on instinct..this was survival of the fittest and this intruder was about to be removed from the gene pool, with malice!
My eyes were adjusted to the dark and the light from the VCR was all I needed to see everything in the room clearly. Just then I heard the noise again.. he was still at the door…I took cover flat on the floor and partly concealed by a corner. OK.. think… do you really want to kill someone? No… I can see pretty good, if there is anything even remotely resembling a weapon … I will kill…if not, I'm going to yell FREEZE and hope he runs away.
Theirs the noise again, it sounds like he got the door open! This is it…just then…the tape popped out of the VCR! I had been hearing the VCR automatically rewinding!
I thought it would be fun to start a thread of false alarms. I learned a lot about tactics from this experience and figured that maybe some of you all could comment on lessons you have learned in false alarms.
#1 lesson, security is the first order of business.
I should have changed the locks
I should have had a light and a big gun
I should have already had the shoot or not shoot thing worked out before something happened.