Posted by jimmyraythomason: I am 60 years old and I have lived in this general area all of those 60 years. In that time I have investigated countless "bumps in the night" and then went back to sleep. I'm not about to get overly paranoid at this late date. It works for me,you do what works for you.
It
always works when there's no one there.
People have put a lot of effort into deciding and testing what works best under varying circumstances, and the knowledgeable ones have all come to the same conclusion.
Our purpose here is to share that knowledge with others.
The concept of letting the threat come to the defender is not an obvious strategy for the uninformed. It is not the stuff of screen fiction, and it does not seem heroic or valiant. But it is much wiser, a lot safer, and more likely to lead to success.
I too have gone forth armed to investigate a noise, and it "worked for me" also. There was no one there.
I have gone forth armed on more than one occasion.to confront violent criminal actors whose presence in the house was known. On two of those occasions I had no choice; that sometimes happens. On one of them, however, I had a choice, and I made an unwise one. I knew no better at the time, but I was lucky.
I was lucky in that they were not armed with firearms, they were acting alone, and I knew exactly where they were.
Had there been armed accomplices I might well not be here.
I am wiser now, and I try to gain from the knowledge of others.
Particularly when the stakes are high.
This sums it up very well indeed:
Posted by Cosmoline: If there IS a threat there, you want that threat to either leave you alone or walk into your kill zone. If you're in a good spot with a long gun rested, the target area lit, there's very little hope for any bad guy trying to get in there. But his chances improve enormously if you are distracted and trying to move through darkness.
