I have had to use my gun one time against an intruder in my life. No i didn't kill the intruder but got a good wound in that disabled the intruder. This was years ago when I was living in the city in Dallas, before I moved back out into the country side were I prefer to live.

R.F.

I have not used a gun on an intruder.. but I have had cause to enter into a situation with my gun in hand. ( It was my mothers house and not mine...) The "intruder" was  man she hired to so some work. He was attempting to "shake her down" for more money.. when my presence convinced him it was time to move on.

I also was in route to a situation.. with my double barrel 12 ga in tow. My sisters boyfriend stated on the phone that he had a .357. I decided it was time for her to come home (and she at that point was agreeable). Her boyfriend decided to run away (on foot) rather than deal with the situation at hand. (note: double barrel shotguns with 28" barrels will not fit in the front seat of a '76 Pinto... and therefore you drive around with the side window down and the barrel sticking out.) Welcome to Mississippi.  

I cannot tell by your query, what you expect to show. I am in favor of personal ownship of legal fire-arms. I have equipped them as indicated above, and was well ready to use the tool needed for the job at the time. I suspect, that you hope to indicate that ownership exceeds the need. I tried that with my Algebra teacher, history teacher, and literature teacher... I failed.

More than once. No fatalities.

I carry every day on my farm. I've had to pull several times to run off trespassers, poachers and scrappers raiding my iron pile (I have a blacksmith shop, what they see as scrap to swap for crack, fortified wine  and malt liquor is money coming out of my pocket). I've had to run people out of our gardens and orchards at harvest time, they see that we've started shaking the trees and decide to help themselves to high dollar pecans. Or to the heirloom organic produce.

If I'm faced with the choice of pull and bluff or pull and shoot, no problems with either option. My standard farm carry large bore handgun can hit a paper plate at 100 yards. I practice, a lot. With a target sight equipped 7.5" barrel single action .45 revolver that has been modified to hold between 50 and 60 grains by volume FFFg black powder... that's rifle specs.

With the cost of ammunition these days, if I need to shoot, there are no warning shots.

6'2" and 230lbs, I have just started to carry but did dislocate some guy's sholder when in a quick fight a few years ago but I was a different person then. Now I will try to walk away if possible, there are too many crazies out there so I'm not picking fights anymore.
To answer the question, no I've never pulled a gun or shot a human being yet.

Just being offensive doesnt make one a "weapon"..

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 04/05/13 at 20:03:41:


This wasn't directed @ me was it ?

If so - I guess disagreeing with your point of view makes me disagreeable ? Yea sure, the whole world revolves around you ...

The underlying reason people dont mess with me is that there is always a reason to hope that I can help them. I've had cops stop by and ask me if I can help them get their bike working ... I've also had drug dealers ask me if I can help their scooter/car ... and I say I cant work on it, I'm not a "mechanic" but try this or that ... in fact I tell cops that too.

I am useful to both sides, and I am likely armed to the teeth as they look @ me. Its like, there is no way this guy cant blow us away dialing the right number on his phone ... so we better not give him a reason to. It does not make sense to try to fight me.

Cool.
Srinath.

WD wrote on 04/08/13 at 10:18:29:



What ? I am not sikh, no idea what Thuggi is, hassishstan ? No Idea, but I am not from any of em "stan's"

I am from South India. I have the reputation I do in my hood cos I have been outside every daylight hour in the 10 years I've lived here that I have seen everything. I have achieved "grand old man" status inspite of being only 44.
No idea if any of this was what you were asking, but there it is.

Cool.
Srinath.