Friday morning feel good stories
Tim sends us a link from Buckeye, Arizona where a resident encountered a teenage burglar in his home. When the youngster came at him, the homeowner felt threatened and shot him twice. The teenager is in the hospital recovering from his experience with reality.
A homeowner in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, caught a burglar stealing some golf clubs and thought he heard gunfire, so he fired about 16 times at the criminal, missing every time. Police couldn’t find any evidence that he’d been shot at anyway.
In Corpus Christi, Texas, three men forced their way into a home where a homeowner got into a firefight with the trio. No one was injured, but the thieves left empty-handed.
A grocery store clerk in Sherman, Texas was threatened by a machete-wielding crook in the parking lot. The clerk shot at the crook who fled the area. The clerk told police that he wasn’t sure that he’d hit his target, but when police found the criminal nearby, he had a wound to his abdomen. The crook is now recovering in the hospital.
Kim and Frank of Rogers County, Oklahoma were tired of being the victims, so they ambushed a thief they saw breaking into their stuff and held him at gun point for the police.
Category: Feel Good Stories
If you are big enough, old enough to try to play the thug life, then you are big enough to feel the heat of a white hot bullet. Think before you do the wannabe gangster thing. It could keep you alive.
SIXTEEN shots fired and not one hit? Somebody needs some RANGE TIME!!
I saw a LT fire an entire 30 rd mag at a truck less than 50 meters away….he hit the truck a total of ZERO times.
From then on he was “Commandante Zero”
then there was the SAW gunner who sent about 100 rounds at a building…every single round went high…
What a maroon…
The LT and the SAW gunner needed to be battle buddies, it sounds like.
Man – if I missed a truck or a building and knew my sights were on, I’d be too ashamed to show my face anywhere.
Was it LT Lars?
What, did he qualify by correspondence course? Online basic? Geeez.
He should have used his Deer rifle and waited thirty minutes to check on the thief. Did he get his golf clubs back? Side note,I have two Does and one Buck in the freezer. Two taken with crossbow and the Buck with black power rifle. Joe
Black power rifle?
Yep, used by the Biathlon Team at the 68 Grenoble Winter Olympics, then sold off as government excess, and it somehow filtered its way down to Joe out there in fly over country.
That’s the story I heard.
What load do you use? Fella with more experience than I swears a round ball with 50 grains behind it will go through ANYTHING. Sounds a bit light to me – what’s your take?
oh, and that being asked… unlike many here I have been shot at only twice, both times as a civilian before I joined up…and there was never an instant’s confusion, I KNEW I was was being shot at in a very, very fundamental way. Not one lick of doubt.
It was my experience using a .54 smokepole that the guideline was for 120 grains of powder to drop an elk.
50 grains, sounds to me, won’t hardly get the ball to the end of the barrel, let alone actually dropping something.
So, yeah, 50 grains might be all right if the ball is no bigger than a Daisy BB and you’re shooting chipmunks.
I have a Kentucky percussion in .50, and use 50 grains FFG Pyrodex behind a wadded round-ball.
It will not “go through anything”, I’m afraid. I’d used it on whitetails, but want to up it to 90 grains and a conical for an elk.
With 50 grains and a round ball it does have a good punch at East Texas Pineywoods range (less than 100 yards). I have had the pleasure of introducing visiting Japanese girls to shooting with that – and it doesn’t kick enough to scare them away from future shooting.
It also does a spectacular job on a gallon jug of water, btw.
Any more powder and you might have to see a Doctor about your shoulder. The crossbow I used shoots the bolt about 425 FSP, Wricked Ridge(a sub of Ten Points crossbows. The thing most People do wrong is pulling off the target when the pan powder ingites. I do have 2 in-lines smokeless rifles. I was able to get one of the Musets not enough time in service . Joe
Fifty grains sounds about right for a .36 squirrel rifle. My .50 Hawken uses 100/110 grains to throw a 375 gr maxi bullet at 1400 fps. It will kill any big game animal on the continent. As always, shot placement is critical.
I’ve got a nifty 43 Spanish Rolling Block most of 100yrs old that takes 60 or so grains of BP and shoots a 370gr lead bullet. Makes a very satisfying boom with lots of nice smoke.
Range time? Sounds to me like someone needs a short-barreled shotgun – and lessons.
Hondo, possible drunk Indian in that Town. Joe
Sometimes, in my dreams, I get into firefights. The trigger pull is always unbearably heavy and, without exception, I never hit shit. Then I wake up, realize it was all a dream and think to myself “Thank God! I still know how to shoot!”
I feel bad for the Oklahoma homeowner who knows that this is very much not a dream and that he very much does not know how to shoot. At least there’s an excuse for some range time, I suppose.
I have a similar dream, and it’s always a Glock, with that god-awful gritty trigger.
Before the fan-bois come out of the woodwork … I carried one on duty for years, and it was a Gen-1 Glock. Hated it, but never had any mechanical issues, and always qualified at the range. But that Gen-1 trigger, YUCK!!!
Some genius tried to steal golf clubs?
Well, the Callaway Big Bertha woodie is worth about $300 retail, and the Callaway Apex 16 graphite iron comes in at around $1400. Depending on the number of clubs in that bag, the thief could expect to hock those beauties at a nearby pawn shop for at least 50% of the retail and rake in a considerable sun. Let’s see: three graphite irons could have brought the thief approximately $2000 alone, never mind the woodies raking in about $800, depending on how many there were.
Let’s discard the putters, because they’re important, yes, but the irons and the woodies are the Force Behind It All.
If I were the homeowner, I’d get more practice and give the next golf club thief a lessen in how many holes-in-one you can get with a handgun.
N.B.: No compensation was distributed for differentiating between woodies and irons.
At least there weren’t any “iron” in your “woody” jokes …
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Range time would be nice for a number of these good guys.
Saying that knowing that I’ve not been on the pistol range in nearly a year… dealing with life will do that to ya.
Although I did get some rifle time with the new squirrel gun… just no squirrels when I got in the woods – yet.