Saturday morning feel good story
This morning’s story comes from Tennessee;
The residents told police they were sleeping when they heard a crashing noise. One of them then picked up a gun he kept next to his bed, according to Keck.
A suspect emerged through the bedroom doorway within seconds and appeared to have a handgun, according to Keck.
The resident then fired at least five times from his bed, and the suspect fled.
Investigators said it appeared the home was entered by breaking a rear window. Several items were out of place in the room where the window was broken, according to Keck.
Dude needs some serious range time – fired five times at someone in the bedroom door and didn’t hit him? C’mon. Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Feel Good Stories
Range time, daily, daylight and dark, tactical.
If you are going to hunt that which goes Bump in the Night, you must practice in the night.
Lasers look cool but I have a light on my home defender instead – so I can actually see what I’m shooting. Keeps me from shooting the dog or an overnight guest looking for the latrine in addition to blinding the target.
He either needs more range time, or substitute the handgun by his bed for a shotgun. You ain’t gonna miss with that.
actually, at bedroom distances the pattern from most shotguns is only a coupla inches wide. Lots of power and somewhat easier to aim, but the old two-foot wide pattern a coupla yards away is pretty much a myth.
Speaking of Feel Good stories, it seems ISIS may have Ebola in its midst
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2894154/ISIS-fighters-contracted-Ebola-World-Health-Organisation-investigating-reports-Islamist-militants-disease-showed-Iraqi-hospital.html
“Range time”….
How many nit-pickers here could even FIND their sidearm and crank off five rounds in the correct direction only seconds after being woken from a sound sleep?
That’s why I mentioned the shotgun.
Range time will give you reaction muscle memory, if you go often enough, so that when you do have one of these situations, you have a better chance of hitting your target. Practicing combat shooting (point shooting) is a good way to gain that reaction muscle memory. Even when a person is wide awake and in a shooting situation, their heartbeat goes waaaaay up and they start to get tunnel vision. After a shooting situation, most of the people admit that they didn’t even see their own firearm. That’s why I practice point shooting.
Yes, range time does matter. Just food for thought.
No shit. I bet it takes a good 10 minutes for most of these old balls to even sit up let alone stand up after waking up.
So many AARP commandos here.
Folks,
A shotgun requires just as much “aim” at close range as does a rifle. At one yard, it will make a hole about 1 inch. At three yards, it will be 1-2 inches. At five yards, you can cover the pattern with your hand, possibly just the palm of it.
You did pattern your defensive shotgun, right? At the likely “indoor” encounter distances, right?
If not, please do so. It will be eye opening.
Standard paper plates make a good cheap target for this purpose. You can consider the shotgun decisively effective to the distance it will keep all pellets in the circle. It is marginally effective if half stay in.
You really have to practice point-shooting in low light, even with a long gun.
Perhaps Navy SEAL Master Chief Hershel Davis can help our friend here to shoot a little straighter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOg1jbu7Dk4 Be sure to listen closely from 5:56 to 6:30 of the video. Extremely sound advice.