I Don't Know If This Subject.........

[PAPA G]

has been covered here or not.

has anyone here ever had to pull their gun on someone on the street or in the home???

[NRAJOE]

Yeah, this was covered awhile ago...had to whip out my shotgun when someone was trying to break in my garage. Seen them out my back window....crept down there...racked the slide and they was gone like jack rabbits. Didn't call the police...what was the use...looked like kids anyways. Ain't had no problems since

[PAPA G]

my bad

[NRAJOE]

Its cool, was a long time ago bro...needs brought up again anyway...lots of new people...you da man Bob!

[PAPA G]

:cheer:

[Big Dog]

Living off-base in my Navy days, I ended up in the "down side" of town. Late one night, I wake up at the sound of someone drunk and angry banging on my door and cussing. Nobody I wanted to talk to, that's for sure! I got behind my dining room wall, with my Ruger Blackhawk .45ACP/.45Colt Convertible in hand, loaded with .45Colt Winny Silvertips. After awhile, the idiot staggered off elsewhere, and I could calm down. If he'd come in the door, chances are he'd have been carried back out - that's a scary situation!

I moved shortly thereafter.

[Oxford]

Quite a while back, during the middle of the night, I heard a heliocopter hovering over my house and neighborhood. Looked outside and they were using a searchlight down on my yard and the neighbors. Figured they were looking for someone so I grabbed my Browning Sweet Sixteen SG, kept my lights off inside, and waited for someone to come crashing through one of my doors.

Eventualy, this situation died down, everything went back to normal, but I wasn't able to sleep the rest of the night.

Heard later that someone had escaped from jail and was lurking in my neighborhood. :nod:

[jerry]

Back last Feb. just before going overseas, I hear the dogs barking at 2AM. Usually a quick "shut up" calls them off the ocasional stray cat or squirrell. They kept at it this time. Tey were looking around the corner of the house, In my underwear, I grab my brothers AR and a mag out of the shooting bag. I had his AR to do some familiarization training. Anyway, I come around the corner to find some guy climbing my 6' high privacy fence. A quick charge of the handle stops him dead in his tracks. I knock on the window for the wife to call 911. I held him there 'till the cops came up the side of the house via the driveway. The cops took him off and my report. They never asked about my gun whatsoever at all. The funny thing was, this was no where near part of my planned home self defense scenerio. The AR was just handy and familiar, I didn't have my halogen spotlight, I didn't have the phone on me. Just my underwear and my brothers AR. It's easy to say such and such, but when it gets to the doing, it's different.

Enclosed is a pic of where I caught the dummy trying to climb the fence (with the dogs inside!)

One other time in Tucson. (Wilmont Vista Apts.) I was working nights. I heard a knock on my first floor apt window while I was sleeping. .357/9mm convertable Blackhawk in hand i fling open the blinds. Some guy with a rake takes off running. I find out later it's a handicap crew cleaning the grounds. I felt like a jackass! The rake stayed there on the ground for two more weeks.

[Stephen A. Camp]

Hello. Yes, but only once off duty. Three dudes tried to rob me in a mult-level hospital parking garage.

Didn't work out for them.

Best.

[MAX7.62]

I've said it before Papa -

I never shot anyone that didn't need it.

Remember when you say "pull it out" - in a defensive situation this is followed by target aquisition and trigger squeeze all in one practiced, reactive motion.
"Pull it out" to intimidate can get you hurt - permanently.

I shot a snake that came crawling out from under my car when I was going to work at my part time job at the gun store..that was 15 years ago..I was carrying a Browning Hi Power 9mm :target:

[Shaun]

On duty when I was a cop almost daily in PRK or as Allen T would say the occupied territories. As a civy with the permit I have drawn it twice once to stop a car jacking of the car in front of me and the second time was to stop a couple of bums from pulling me out of the truck. The car jacker was the most fun the responding officer was an old neighbor of mine and the car owner called 911 for me and informed PD that I was a citizen helping - no shots were fired and the BG wet himself - my guess he didn't like the feel of the muzzle of my 45 in his ear. simply told the guy if he didn't drop the gun he would have no brains within seconds. the gun hit the ground and he was in a felony kneeling position and I was holstered restraining him until PD arrived. the funny part is he asked my old neighbor who I was and when my neighbor told him I was a retired SWAT officer from PRK he cried. Pled guilty the next morning and was sent back to prison for 10 more years.