Your UNCONVENTIONAL door answerer gun

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Stonecutter2 said:
Any unexpected knock on the door puts me on alert.
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Another excellent point. The majority of home invasions in my county that made te local news were in daylight. I carry daily so it is with me if I go near the door, period.
 
I keep a Bulgarian Makarov and spare magazine available and handy in the house so that I can access it between my living room and front door. I also have porch lights, motion-sensing flood lights high up on the garage wall, and I don't answer the door for salespeople.
 
It would depend on what time you are talking about. No one knocks on my door nomally, unless they are a neighboor during the day. I just use my hand on my pocket gun if unsure.Usually bad guys don't knock. Kicking in the average door is very easy, or a pry bar. Standing to one side I have glass with blinds adjacent to the door, so I can peek out with the concrete wall as cover. It would make more sense that a bad guy would try to lure you out in a development like mine, so you turn off your alarm, breaking a window, or making some weird noise like jamming your air conditioner with a stick in the grading.My dog would be going nuts by then if the door was messed with. .
Intercom is a better idea as cosmoline mentioned, and cameras, no crook wants to be on video, and they have sound now also, so you can hear what's going on which could be a big plus.
 
I step out of the house, close the door behind me (door handle locked, so door locks behind me) and proceed to talk.
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I don't know how tactically sound this is. Not something I would do. There are too many variables and being locked out of the house in (what might become) an emergency situation is not on my top ten list. Yeah, you might put them off guard, but to what end. If their intent was to case the place, you might have prevented it. If their intent was to rob, kill rape and steal, you just put yourself out of the frying pan.

Gun in hand, I'll check through the window. If I don't know them, I'll talk through the window. If they say there has been an emergency, I'm calling the cops before I open the door to render aid. the tactic of one person knocking on the door to call for help while another is crawling through a back window is an old, yet effective one. If the cops are already on the way because of an emergency, so much the better. If it turns out to be legit, they are on their way. If it turns out to be some nefarious plot, ditto. Either way, I C my A.
 
I don't answer my door for anyone who isn't my close friend or my family.

I have had neighbors come to my door several times over the years, they better leave a note cause I wont answer.
I even once had 2 police officers knocking at my door a few years ago I didn't answer (to this day I always wonder what they wanted tho)

hell, I don't even answer my phone unless I know personal know the number, even if it is listed like say USAA- I figure if its important enough they will send me a letter or email.



all that being said I always carry a S&W 340PD even around my house so if I answer the door ill have that on me


yeah im a bit of a hermit.
 
Where I live there is no cell service so there are some people who come down but most of them are lost or in the winter drive into the ditch. I use whatever handgun is near and keep it out of sight no need for them to know I am armed. I am not usually that worried though because there is usually someone else at home too and can back me up if things turned nasty but that has never happen and probably never will. Just stay on your toes is all. We also have a dog who barks at anyone who comes near the house so that helps.
 
I step out of the house, close the door behind me (door handle locked, so door locks behind me) and proceed to talk.
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The locked door not only gives you some C&C, it is a very important legal barrier. Someone busting through a locked door, or an LEO doing so, has crossed an important legal threshold. For the cop it means much greater difficulty claiming consent to search. For the criminal it means much less chance of arguing mutual combat or misunderstanding. Once you're out in the yard things can get much more uncertain.
 
Well, elcaminoariba, I guess our responses answered your question in an off-hand way. Most of us don't rely on "unconventional" firearms for SD/HD.
 
I answer the door without opening it. Haven't opened it at night yet. If I did the Glock will do just fine. Oh, and the dogs.



Lock myself outside with the guy? Ha, not a chance. I'll stay in my home, thank you very much.



It is very easy to answer the door without opening it. To the people who say they just ignore whoever is knocking at the door...even if police officers...what is wrong with you/what were you doing illegal at the time?
 
Well pilgrim I answer those late night door nocks with a 10inch barrel 44mag super blackhawk with my tactical 5 cell mag light duct taped to the barrel, and the wife wonders why we don't have trick or treaters anymore. Was that what you were looking for?
 
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Well pilgrim I answer those late night door nocks with a 10inch barrel 44mag super blackhawk with my tactical 5 cell mag light duct taped to the barrel, and the wife wonders why we don't have trick or treaters anymore. Was that what you were looking for?
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Man, it would be a tough choice. Shoot 'em or whop 'em over the head. Not the trick-or-treaters, of course.:D
 
I have a metal bar security door outside of my door. They are not going to kick that in since it opens out like a screen door.
 
A buddy and I answered the door with a large ax (him) and a large broad sword (me). My buddy's room mate collected those times of items. They were decorative reproductions, not sharp, but ALL steel - you could definitely mess someone up with them. The guy had the wrong apartment and we about scared him <removed>. :)
 
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Unconventional: Coffee cup or bottle of water.

Not that there was not a Youth, Single Shot 20 ga which is only 36" total length with a slug in chamber "handy"

This is exactly what I had back where I lived once, when a ex relative showed up after midnight with a butcher knife, looking for a female. I KNOW what a coffee cup with Twining's Irish Breakfast tea will do, and the ex relative male found out also.

I was in a bigger city at the time, and was in fact lost the phone connection to a THR Staff member when that dealie went down.

Chide the youth single shot if you want, but, I can "conceal" that thing behind my leg, or other ways, and in some serious lessons and set ups....as I was mentored on and have countless hours of doing so...

20 bores look a whole lot bigger than 20 bores in some situations. Depends on how you look at 'em, and especially from what "perspective".
 
first off, i have a fenced in hard, gate cannot be opened by hand from the outside, only my landlord, a trusted friend, and of coarse, my wife, can get in the gate.

wife has a key
landlord and friend will always call first

so, if someone knocks on my door, they have no business being there. they either forced there body through the fence (pushing on it hard enough might allow a small person to slide in) or they jumped the fence. i grab my shotgun, check the peep hole, stay put, call the cops. shotgun is onlyt used if the person decides to come in forcefully.

but im willing to bet, that if a BG jumps the fence with two dogs in the yard, and goes up to a house with two more dogs barking inside, and still want to rob me, i doubt he is going to knock.


and im with others, why an unconventional firearm? and if you think you need a gun, why answer the door?
 
I usually take my S&W 64 with me to answer the door at night. I've had it happen at least a half-dozen times over the years. Without fail, due to my position out in the boonies, its been somebody lost just asking for directions on how to get back out to a certain highway. They've never seen the gun - I'll take to them through a cracked door with the gun in my hand behind it. As they say: "Trust, but verify."
 
If it is before 0630 I answer the door with coffee and the lunch money that my son for got.

Aside from that, the only thing "unconventional" that I answer the "middle-of-the-night" knock with is... back-up. I'm not the only person in my home that is armed, nor am I the only person to get up in the middle of the night for things of this nature. They have happened a couple of times. With those considerations in mind, it was decided, because we're already familiar with certain guns and certain platforms, the extra effort would be put into doing so without friendly fire.

Oh, and the "unconventional" Nerf gun I posted earlier is just a backup.
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IMHO, you should really re-think using that thing. Do you have any idea of what a prosecuting attorney could do if you actually used that? Do you know how he could twist it around? Man... I think that's just asking for trouble. :D
 
My CCW gun (Walther PPS 40.) and a Mossberg 835 Turkey gun are the only loaded guns in the house, so I guess it depends on how loud the knock is.
 
I don't answer the door. I want signs of forced entry if I have to shoot. I have a no trespassing sign on a locked gate, so nobody should be knocking anyway.

That said, if I did hear a bump in the night, I'm grabbing my nightstand pistol. It is a very unconventional G21 with a light/laser on it.

I guess if I had zombies knocking, I may go for the flamethrower, I hear those work best, but we don't really have any of those up here in WA. This IS about zombies... Right?
 
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