Have A Plan To Defend Your Home

I'm hoping you only want your phones to contact neighbors for help??? Dialing nine hundred eleven here for help only means they will find you in some form of F'ed up at the crime scene. They would only be needed for medical help and body bags.

I live in the country behind a locked gate, so anyone knocking at the door would get an armed response immediately. Not going to go into any details.

 

100% Correct. Our thinking is now that the grandson is in full blown carpet shark mode it would be better to have empty chambers in the only guns he might be able to get to. While he understands "no" it only takes a second with my back turned and he can be across the room and into another. Seemed to be a good compromise between having to put them up and take them out constantly. We have a "shark gate" across the doorway leading into the room for his visits,but we just felt better with the chambers empty.

 

The first noise they should hear is the shot fired after they have been hit. Racking a pump shotgun only lets the bad guy know where you are so they can shoot you when you come around a corner. Lasers and flashlight are the same unless you know how to use them, on fire off.

 

A wise man would simply say, Yes Dear, What ever you want.

 

I feel as though I have fixed those issues.The shotguns are not the only weapons available, just the only ones in open view if he were to go into the master bedroom as I mentioned before. He will receive firearms instruction when he is old enough-@ 16 months he isn't near ready for anything other than "NO".

 

I agree,but as I said before the only ones that can be seen are the 870's in the master bedroom. If an intruder makes it all the way into there,honestly the gig is most likely up already. You just can't gain access to that room without getting through much of the house.

 

I'm surprised; I really am! I'm certified to teach various aspects of self and home-defense; and, in my opinion, there’s far less, ‘self-defense savvy’ in this thread than I expected to see.

People have told me that I’m unusually knowledgeable at this sort of thing; but, then again, I should be. In 1990 our home was suddenly invaded; and I sincerely believe that my wife and I would have either died or been seriously injured in that attack if it hadn't been for the fact that there were two highly trained guard dogs in the house.

Who would have thought? Two of my best, ‘students’ actually saved our lives! Those two Pit Bulldogs took care of the intruder for us; and it’s a good thing they did, too, because I was on crutches at the time; and all of my guns were upstairs where I couldn’t get at them. Without those two guard dogs I doubt that I'd be typing this right now; and that’s, ‘Why’ their professionally taken photographs are on my desk. They’re, both, gone now; but their memory will always be with me.

I learned my lesson that day. For the past 25 years I've slept, every night, with a loaded pistol underneath my pillow. A fully charged cell phone and a 250 lumen tac light are, also, right next to the bed. Guns should never be kept, ‘by the door’. Neither should they be, ‘salted’ throughout the house. (Where did that insanity come from?) The gun should, either, be in your hand, or inside an open-topped holster on your belt.

When I’m, ‘dressed for success’ the cell phone, at least one extra magazine, and a knife of some sort are, also, always with me. Whenever I'm out of the house a cigarette lighter, and a small (but bright) flashlight are added to my belt load. Neither my wife, nor I have answered, 'the door' in years! We answer the front window, instead. Hasn't anybody ever heard of domestic angles and lines-of-fire? It's your responsibility to know every available line and angle-of-fire in and around your: home, yard, and property.

Never leave guns scattered around your home. In an invasion emergency this might cause one of your own guns to be used against you. Wherever you are inside your home, THAT is where your gun should also be, and within no more than arm's reach, as well. (Which, regardless of the Bulldogs, is where my own gun should have been on the morning that we were attacked, but wasn’t.)

We, now, live in the country; and I have formed the good habit of doing an outside property check once or twice a night; and always shortly before we go to bed. This is how I discovered that one of our miscreant neighbors was using our farm dumpster to off load buckets of methamphetamine waste only hours ahead of our regularly scheduled weekly garbage pickup. (This right next to a hayfield from which beef cattle are fed!)

My biggest worry? I worry most about coming home. I don't want to be caught off-guard either: inside my vehicle, or out in the driveway, (Both primary points-of-attack!) or as we attempt to reenter our home and settle in. (The other big danger point!) To a lesser extent, during the evening, I worry about lighted windows; and, in the same vein, basement windows are always a problem, and warrant some sort of extra lock on the upstairs basement door.

‘Curiosity killed the cat!’ NEVER - as in, 'NEVER' - go to see what that, 'bump in the night' is all about. If the sound is mysterious and alarming enough to warrant investigation then you need to use your cell phone. Do NOT attempt to approach the source of the disturbance. ‘Honker on down’ inside some sort of fortified bedroom position, instead, and wait for the problem to approach you!

YOU DO NOT GO TO IT.

At our home my wife (Perhaps the best of all my students!) and I work as a team. She hangs back, has the phone, and has been taught how to shrewdly operate a tactical light. (Flash on, flash off, and held in front of and away from your body!) If there's any verbal warning to be given, then, she's the one who'll do the talking. I'm the silent one with the gun, waiting just out of sight, and at an oblique angle to her position. (The one whom an intruder isn't going to either see or even suspect is, also, present.)

Instinctively, my wife and I will take up positions at, more or less, a right angle to one another. Anyone approaching her, anyone attempting to line up on her, will have to, first, get past the muzzle of my gun. Like Jim Cirillo, I prefer not to use a shotgun for either self, or home-defense. At room fighting distances I really don't need anything more than a pistol. Racking a slide in order to warn the bad guy off?

THAT IS A SUCKER'S MOVE!

Try this against someone who actually knows what he's doing with a gun in his hands, (Nowadays, there's quite a few of, 'all the wrong people' who do!) and you'll, more than likely, end up by getting yourself promptly shot in the first opening fusillade! It’s sinful that so many of us, now, have to live in our homes like this; but, this is the general social direction in which our society is presently heading. (A sign of the times, I suppose!)

 

Sounds to me as though "Johnny Methhead" learned that all he had to do was wait til you made your last round for the night and then he was free to dump.. Maybe a camera system and a non set (predicable) time line?

 

eazy enough to wire in phone jacks wherever you want them - cheap too .... simple plug in landline phones are selling for 50 cents each at the garage sales .... having phones ready to use in places like the basement or a "safe room" closet isn't the worse part of a security plan ....

 

When a crutch is not a crutch...

 

That was pretty well said. I use the windows to see who is here. I have windows I can see both doors from. We keep our doors locked and we have dogs who are not good attack dogs but let us know when anyone is around the house. People don't even have to knock and my dogs are letting us know we have company.. I also don't use a shotgun in the house. That is my yard clearing tool. We keep two hand guns at the ready close to hand at all times. Bruce has no fear of intruders as he lives in the Alaskan bush. I worry more about people waiting until we leave home , then breaking in and stealing. This is why we leave no guns out for anyone to find. Forced entry is very rare in our area. I practiced several defensive plans and have a couple real good ones for intruders. Training is what matters.

 

Dogs are great tools.

 

I think it's time for me to wash my tactical wheelbarrow now!