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Has anyone here shot at an intruder??

BLKSRT8BLKSRT8 Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2014 in General Discussion
With all the topics here about people killing intruders. Has anyone here actually had to shoot at someone breaking into there house (HUMAN)? Or shooting to defend yourself outside the home?

MIKE
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    do mice count?
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No, but I did witness my father shooting a burglar at our gun shop when I was about six back in 1969. I really don't recall a lot about it since I was so young. I remember the loud bang and the police coming, since we were next to the maple shade police dept. Also, I remember the burglar being very dark skinned
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  • NavybatNavybat Member Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shot a possum which was "intruding" into my garage once...
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    I have not (other than the wildlife answer) and I don't shoot "at" things. [;)]
    I actually shoot them.

    I have had a weapon in my hands, ready to engage. More than a few times. And it's not a good feeling in my book. I try to avoid those places where it has happened.

    But I do know several on the boards who have. Some more than a couple of times.
    Some shot at, some shot, some killed.

    I doubt they care to discuss it though.
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  • BLKSRT8BLKSRT8 Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You might be right. It would be a very tramatic event, especially if someone lost their life. My bad, sorry.

    MIKE
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah.
    A few years ago one morning my dogs started barking and a motion light popped on.
    As always I grabbed a pistol and walked down to the shop. I caught two thugs in my car. I must have terrified them smiling as I walked toward them.

    They bailed and ran across the four lane to where an accomplice was parked. The headlights came on and the * drove slowly North so the thugs could jump in.

    I stood on my side of the highway and slowly pumped seven rounds into the car as it rolled by. It was still too dark to tell if I scored any hits (45 yards with a .380) No one ever showed up at the hospital, but I did see the car later and the back glass was shot out.[:p]
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  • TangoSierraTangoSierra Member Posts: 1,248 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a widowed great aunt that took a shot at a man trying to get in her house in the middle of a hot summer night some sixty-odd years ago. Best I remember, she came close to hitting him with her SW 38 revolver.
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  • calrugerfancalrugerfan Member Posts: 18,209 ✭
    edited November -1
    I've drawn. I've never had to fire.
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  • CapnMidnightCapnMidnight Member Posts: 8,038 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not since 1969 in S.E. Asia.
    W.D.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BLKSRT8
    You might be right. It would be a very tramatic event, especially if someone lost their life. My bad, sorry.

    MIKE


    There is no "bad" [:)][:)]
    Just trying to explain why you may not get the responses you expected.

    It's an intriguing question.

    I'd be happy to share my 9mm v 12ga story with you over a beer. I'll even take you to the bar with the hole in the wall where it happened. But it isn't a great internet story. [;)]
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had to shoot a cat that had crawled under the hood of my G.T.O. many years ago. Fan chopped it up and then it went wild on me. It was trying to climb the wall in the garage and running all over the place acting stupid. The .44 with shot cured that.
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  • Ray BRay B Member Posts: 11,822
    edited November -1
    I came out of a bar in Clarkston one night to find some guy in my car, stradling the transmission hump, apparently trying to steal the police radio. Feigning being asleep he had laid over into the passenger seat. As I Opened the driverside door and saw him I heard some of his friends approaching me in the gravel parking lot. I decided my odds were better one to one than surrounded. So I got in the car, started it up and drove quickly to the local police station- went in and told the officers that I had a car prowler in my car. They went out and arrested him about the time his buddies showed up to claim it was all a misunderstanding that he had "mistakenly" got into my car. This was interesting because the cardoor was locked. Through the event I had on a second chance vest and a M66 2 1/2" in a shoulder holster that I could have drawn had the "sleeping" fellow come to life. I was glad that I didn't have to shoot him since blood is awfully hard to get out of the car.
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  • NOAHNOAH Member Posts: 9,690
    edited November -1
    [;)][}:)][;)][:0]
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  • riflemikeriflemike Member Posts: 10,599 ✭
    edited November -1
    i plead the 5th
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  • callktulucallktulu Member Posts: 3,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking

    I stood on my side of the highway and slowly pumped seven rounds into the car as it rolled by. It was still too dark to tell if I scored any hits (45 yards with a .380) No one ever showed up at the hospital, but I did see the car later and the back glass was shot out.[:p]


    So you shot at retreating "innocent until proven guilty" people while there was no risk to your life? I'm thinking had you injured or killed someone at that time, you might be the one facing the judicial system...
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  • zinkzink Member Posts: 6,456 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You hear a lot of people say in a certain situation, whether justified or not, "I'd have blown his * off!" People don't really know if they can or can't until they are actually, physically in that situation.

    I had three emotions one minute so close that it is unreal. First was scared, I mean pee you pants, knee knocking scared.[:I]

    Then the adrenalin hits and you get a peaceful feeling, almost a zen moment where you get tunnel vision and you can hear the little birdies singing. You hear someone hollering for them to stop and drop their weapon, only to later realize it is you doing the hollering![:0]

    Then the sadness when you learn you are capable of taking a human life.[:(]

    There is no such thing as a "good shoot"![xx(]

    Lance

    As Forrest Gump would say,

    "That's all I have to say about that".
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  • bartman45bartman45 Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by callktulu
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking

    I stood on my side of the highway and slowly pumped seven rounds into the car as it rolled by. It was still too dark to tell if I scored any hits (45 yards with a .380) No one ever showed up at the hospital, but I did see the car later and the back glass was shot out.[:p]


    So you shot at retreating "innocent until proven guilty" people while there was no risk to your life? I'm thinking had you injured or killed someone at that time, you might be the one facing the judicial system...

    +1 In Ohio that is not a legal thing to do, and would make a civil suit for the bad guys.
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by callktulu
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking

    I stood on my side of the highway and slowly pumped seven rounds into the car as it rolled by. It was still too dark to tell if I scored any hits (45 yards with a .380) No one ever showed up at the hospital, but I did see the car later and the back glass was shot out.[:p]


    So you shot at retreating "innocent until proven guilty" people while there was no risk to your life? I'm thinking had you injured or killed someone at that time, you might be the one facing the judicial system...


    Not around here. A thief is still a thief and numerous juries have confirmed that. Unlike some * states, Alabama has an open season on thugs with no bag limit. Google "Summer Moody" and read what happened.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    No, though my mother did.

    First year my mom and dad were married, living in an apartment. Dad showed her how to load his double barrel 16 gauge and disengage the safety. He also had her shoot it at a quarry a few times to make sure she was comfortable with it. His old rabbit gun from when he was a teen (which at that point, was only 10 years previous) it was their only gun.

    She was at home alone, when she hears someone in the hall outside trying the door handle. She went and got and loaded the gun. As the person continued to try the door, she called out, "I have a gun."

    With that the guy kicked in the door and came in anyhow.

    Both barrels of #4 shot to the chest at a range of 5 feet. Dead before he hit the floor. Not much left of his upper body, as I hear it.

    This was the 60s. Questions were... rather fewer then, than they would be now. Police said that the guy was a known drug addict who had been in and out of jail for years, probably looking to come in to rob the place, and probably high.

    I hope if I ever find myself in that situation, I can react as well as she did.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A cousin of mine did. This happened a long time ago when the independent truck drivers and teamsters were having problems so it may have been that instead of a robbery. He was, I believe in New Jersey, checking his rig when he was jumped by three guys. He had to fight his way to the cab to get his firearm. He killed one, one ran away and it is believed he got lead into the third guy. I don't remember if the third guy was caught but the second was not. There were no charges and he drove to Bakersfield Ca before having his eye looked at. Most of the talk was about him being stupid because he waited to have his eye injury fixed but I can understand him wanting to be out of New Jersey after killing that guy with the possibility of the law changing it's mind or the guy's friend's trying again.
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  • lew07lew07 Member Posts: 1,053 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    do mice count?



    It depends how big they were[:D]
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking
    quote:Originally posted by callktulu
    quote:Originally posted by p3skyking

    I stood on my side of the highway and slowly pumped seven rounds into the car as it rolled by. It was still too dark to tell if I scored any hits (45 yards with a .380) No one ever showed up at the hospital, but I did see the car later and the back glass was shot out.[:p]


    So you shot at retreating "innocent until proven guilty" people while there was no risk to your life? I'm thinking had you injured or killed someone at that time, you might be the one facing the judicial system...


    Not around here. A thief is still a thief and numerous juries have confirmed that. Unlike some * states, Alabama has an open season on thugs with no bag limit. Google "Summer Moody" and read what happened.
    Sky King I second it!...hate the young girl got killed,but when you are in the process of committing a felony,thats a risk you take...BTW that group stole a battery out of our pontoon boat.
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  • texdottexdot Member Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was a youngster a buddy and I got into a disturbance at a bar and the cops broke it up. About an hour later as we were driving on the outskirts of town we saw two of the culprits again just as they finished fixing a flat tire, and I told my buddy to pull in there and we'll finish this. As I got out of the car I laid a derringer on the hood unbetonst to the culprits. They wanted no more confrontation from us and we turned to walk back to the car. One of those buggers must have grabbed a chain or something cause whatever it was wrapped around my head and blackened both my eyes. As I hit the hood of the car my hand landed on the pistol and I came around with it up and I told him in no uncertain terms he was a dead man and cocked the hammer. He peed his pants and all the while my buddy was saying,"don't do it,don't do it." So I didn't. That was the closest I ever came.
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