Tuesday morning feel good stories
Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for this chilly morning. The first is from North Carolina where Michael Holliday met his reward during his home invasion along with three other playmates who all survived;
Deputies say it started around 7:30 p.m. when four people broke into a home on Abbotts Branch Lane.
A news release says Holliday and Brian Bailey went into the home to rob John Moore of cash and drugs, while two others waited nearby in a getaway vehicle.
Warrants say the suspects were after prescription drugs and cash worth about $200.
Holliday and Bailey pointed a shotgun at Moore, who deputies say pulled out a .22 caliber pistol and demanded they leave his home. Deputies say Holliday was shot, and Bailey ran from the home.
The three were taking the 21-year-old Holliday to the hospital when their vehicle collided with another vehicle on Highway 172 in Hubert. Holliday was taken to Naval Hospital and later died, according to a news release.
The second story comes from SJ and Chief Tango ad it is also from North Carolina where 19-year-old Chris Ludwick survived his second robbery attack in two weeks better than his first, because this time he gunned, bro;
Ludwick said he shot at the men four times with a .22-caliber pistol that his father gave him after the first home invasion on February 7. He was prepared when the men broke down the back door just before 4:30 a.m. Sunday.
“I was sleeping and was woken up to a disturbing outrage,” said Ludwick, “and they came inside my house and started trying to beat me up.”
Ludwick has cuts on his face and four staples in the back of his head from where one of the men grabbed the gun and pistol whipped him after the shooting.
He doesn’t know why he was targeted twice in as many weeks.
“The first time they took a lot of hats and my phone and some of my money, and the second time all they got was my watches,” he said.
Kannapolis police arrested two men shortly after the attack, after Ludwick gave police a description of their car.
Yeah, Chris, you have to up the caliber unless you get more range time and aim for the face with the .22 caliber. Just the sound of a .45 puts most bad guys on the ground.
Category: Feel Good Stories
I’m thinking that shot placement was better in the first story, since in both stories, they used a .22.
Yep, using a .45 makes shot placement a little less critical.
just goes to show, a .22 may not have shock power but can certainly kill. I told my recoil-phobic sister to get two 30 round mags for her 10-22, load 25 into ’em only, and if anyone came into her house to start putting holes in them as they came up the stairs – and don’t stop till they fell down or she ran dry. Reload and repeat as needed…
I’m not a fan of .22 and think it is best for teaching children how to shoot, but if you have to use it aim for somewhere soft. The abdomen, thighs, and face are the best targets. However, as others have said, with a .45 (or even a 9mm in some cases), shot placement is not as critical as just hitting meat and letting the hydrostatic shock do the rest.
.410 pistol loaded with #4 buck works fine. any hit leaves multiple holes. (.41 long colt, commonly called a “snake gun”)
Looks like an Amish Mafia initiation challenge gone bad.
Recoil is brief , dead is forever. A 12 or 20 guage shotgun loaded with 7&half shot will stop a crook. DFW metro SWAT teams have been using this for about 20 years now. Reason good knockdown and will not pass Thru drywalls. Joe