Actual Shootout against armed killers.

[mbt2001]

But, calling someone a liar from behind a screen name is a low risk endeavor.

Sadely this is true...

My Advice:

Move to Texas! All of you who still believe this, come to Texas, where women do their hair and makeup even to run basic errands, where carrying a rifle in your truck isn't cause for an interdiction, where Mexican food is really spicy and (most importantly) many companies are still hiring!

 

[SsevenN]

Good story, glad you are alive.

How bad were your arms hurt from the 7.62x21's?

 

[Vern Humphrey]

What should we call people who try to rob and kill us? "Angles of mercy?"

 

[Dragk913]

I do apologize for my comments, while I may be a skeptic - I have no place to try to discredit you, as I do not know you.
As I stated before, I am very glad you and yours made it through without getting too badly injured.

I hope myself, and others' comments have not been too inconsiderate as to keep you from posting more on this awesome forum.


Be careful!
Drag

 

[TexasRedneck]

Drag, you're free to challenge anyone you want - but if you did such to me, you'd not do it again. That's not meant as a challenge, or "macho talk", but rather as a statement. The last time someone called me a liar, I was less than kind in my response, and frankly embarassed them beyond their wildest imagination. Never lifted a hand - there's more than one way to "fight" someone. And in MOST states, any self-respecting individual that's called a liar WILL take umbrage to such, IMO.

 

[Delford]

Drag
read the OPs link and the previous posts. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=13...2726622C293344

 

[batjka]

Well, that NAA saved Boer's life before blowing up. So we must give that gun a little credit...

Boer, so you fired 4 shots in total? 2 hits on one guy, 1 hit on another and the "blowing up" shot? That's some impressive shooting! Any idea what might have caused your mini to disintegrate like that? Was it an obstructed barrel? If you had fired 5 times and it blew up on the 5th, then possible the 4th shot was a dud and a bullet was stuck in the barrel. That's the only thing I can think off.
So much for all the condescending talk about minis and how the bad guys will laugh about it. Guess the guys from this story didn't laugh.

Boer, if you don't mind I'll post this story on NAA forums. I'm pretty sure you're entitled to a free replacement for your gun. Have you talked to them about it?

HardKnocks, is your companion .22lr or .22Mag version? NAA should replace your cylender for free as well. I read many stories of people loading their Companions with smokeless and guns being fine after hundreds of such loadings.
If you want to get rid of it I might give it a shot.

 

[amflyer]

There is nothing wrong with a healthy dose of skepticism. Especially on the "World Wide Interweb"...

Calling someone a liar is one thing, saying you don't believe their story in such a situation is another. If I had to fight or mentally bombast every person that didn't believe the things I was telling them, I would be too busy to do anything else. Plus, opinions are like...well you know. Call me a liar; I don't give a crap. I, and the people that know me know better.

The OP came to the board, wrote his story, and posted a link to a an article that is pretty similar. The way it is written kind of makes one wonder. If true, it is truly an incredible bit of luck that he wasn't seriously hurt or killed. The verbiage he uses does read like a backward generated fictionalization from the story he posted a link to in the original post.

Perhaps a better approach would have been: "Here is link to an interesting story, and it's about me. Want to hear what I learned form it?"

 

[TexasRedneck]

Well, mebbe ah was jest brought up different, but to me it's like accusin' someone of usin' a "summer name".<look it up, yankees...>

 

[mbt2001]

Fine, don't believe it, call the dude a troll. But don't call someone a liar.

 

[Zundfolge]

Based on the linked news story and Mal H's post I'd say there is a greater than 50% chance the story is true as presented.

At any rate the story clearly happened to SOMEONE (even if not Proud Boer himself).


So Boer, can y'all get KelTecs in South Africa? I'm thinking my wife's little P3AT would have been a little more effective than that little .22mag

If I lived in Dodge City in the mid 1800,s I would recommend a Walker Colt above Derringer for the same reason.

Ironically Dodge City in the mid 1800s was actually safer than it is today (and clearly safer than SA)

 

[Grey_Mana]

Every story of courage, valor, or manliness must be fake. And I can quote personal experience to back that up. Guns are only ever used to commit suicide, to accidentally kill loved ones while cleaning, and to beat the Axis Powers. All this talk about hunting, self-defense, and ongoing conflicts is just a big conspiracy by Reagan-Bush-Dole-Cheney-Bush-McCain. Hope & Change!

 

[DeathByCactus]

Well, I enjoyed the story. Not many people can write out a story like that and make it fun to read. I must admit, at first I was skeptical, but I have no reason to think this is false. Good work and glad you are still alive friend.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Glad to hear that you're healing up well. Those 7.62x25s tend to make clean holes.

Standing between the attacker and the loved ones - that's what a man is for.

 

[chilie]

There are some here who need to read THR TOS, and it is not the Proud Boer. The story sounds plausible. How many here have been to cape town south africa? do you know the tensions and problems that face tht county everyday? It's amazing that some of you seek to destory someone's story and credbility with little more than your own thoughts and opinions. If you don't know for a fact that this isn't true than please keep your skepticism to yourself. You are furthering only the image of you being vastly ignorant to how things work outside of the US's borders.

Boer i'm glad you survied and were able to take a disadvantaged situation and make the best of it. Call em gremlins, goblins, devils or just plain jerks, but there is nothing overtly offensive about any of those names. Live and let live, call em how you see em. Please fellow High Roaders, take the high road.

 

[Yositomo Wiskisito]

This whole story is fake

/end

A little quick on the draw?

I believe you can/should express your opinion about the story. Even if the story sounds "fishy" to you. Its all a matter of respect. Having people post fake stuff in the forums is not unheard off. They should make a protocol for this stuff.

Anyway. Like someone wrote. Choose the highroad and respect the other people in the board. KISS - don't write something you wouldn't say to someone face to face.

 

[Sam Adams]

Proud Boer - kudos to you for being able to think on your feet, and for protecting yourself and your family. While none of us would really like to be in a similar situation, we all hope that IF we were to be, we'd do at least as well as you.

As for the accusation of "slur," etc. - utter bilge. "Goblin" is, as others have pointed out, a well-known term for "bad guy" coined by Col. Jeff Cooper. "Boer" is as offensive as "Irishman," "Russian," "Italian" or a whole host of names that people call themselves based on where they are (or their families were) from...and I can see nothing inherently wrong with being proud of one's origins.

 

[Phydeaux642]

Move to Texas!

No thanks. My ex-wife lives there.

 

[amflyer]

No thanks. My ex-wife lives there.

All of them, or just this one? Great song, by the way.

 

[Matrix187]

Not sure if anyone said this, but: Practice/skill is far more important than caliber, evident by this story.

 

[Leanwolf]

PROUD BOER - "... I had just returned from a formal business function to launch the head office of a new dental insurance in Cape Town and was wearing a tuxedo and therefore only carrying single action .22 Magnum N.A.A. revolver."

Proud Boer, I have a suggestion. I imagine you have some very good tailors in your metropolitan cities. If I were you, I'd have a good tailor craft my tuxedo so I could wear my Star .45 ACP, in a good concealment holster.

I lived in Los Angeles for 35 years, and knew several people who were often at functions where they wore tuxedos. They'd had fine tailors create their tuxedos so they could wear medium sized, larger caliber handguns in good concealment holsters. Even when I knew they were "carrying," I could not tell they were wearing a handgun.

A good tailor can do it, while measuring you as you wear your handgun.

As for your use of "goblins" to describe vicious criminals, you were far more subtle than I would have been. My term for vicious criminals is scatalogical and very crude.

Doesn't bother me a bit.

As I said on the tailored tuxedo, just a suggestion.

Good luck.

L.W.

 

[Gamera]

Wow I'm glad it turned out well. I've been to South Africa and parts of it are indeed like the wild west, so as of now I have no reason to doubt his story.

 

[CaptMac]

A .22 in your hand when you need it is far better than having two .45's at home in a drawer.

 

[MT GUNNY]

Could it have been that your pistol Blew up, Because it was hit buy a Bullet?

 

[Jungo2]

Quote:
In many places, such an accusation is not only rude, but tantamount to "fighting words".
I think that we Texans are (for the most part) the only ones that still feel that way.

I'm Italian and I still feel that way

...glad the OP was able to protect himself and his family.