Have you ever used your sidearm in self defense?

[Impureclient]

Welcome in Flash.

I also think you'd have some good input in this thread for sure: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=493137

 

[JMtoolman]

self defence

I can think of two time in my life where I used a gun to keep from being injured. The first time I was about twelve, I was walking along a country lane with my 20 gauge shotgun going duck hunting. A car came up behind me at a high rate of speed, and crossed the road to hit me from the rear. I glanced back at the noise just in time to leap off of the road and roll in the ditch. Picked myself up, and started walking down the road when here the same car comes back in the other direction. From a hundred yards away he aims the car at me again! I raised up the shotgun and tracked the driver with it. At about fifteen yards he horsed it back across the road and sped away. He would have killed me if I haden't looked back at the last moment.

The second time my wife and I an child were camping in the forest of Oregon. A bunch of hells angles on motercycles came into the campground and started driving circles around our camp cussing us and hollering at what they were going to do to us. I walked to the front of our car and opening our glove box, pulled out a 1911 and racked a shell into it. When I turned around the bunch was gone! So it ended OK after all. The toolman

 

[FRJ]

About 30 years ago I was going to my office late at nite to get in some paperwork that I wanted my secretary to process in the A.M. before I got to the office. Two punks armed with a scatchet confronted me and demanded my wallet. I explained that it was in the glovebox. They told me to get it or get fd up. I didn't tell them I also kept a 1911 cocked and locked in there also. When I came out with the gun pointed in the first ones face he wet his pants. His friend jumped behind him and I explained that that was exactly what I wanted as I could kill both of them with one shot that way. Needless to say they ran like satan himself was after them.Haven't seen the scatchets on sale in a lot of years but they were a mean weapon. FRJ

 

[rainbowbob]

What's a scatchet? Neither Google nor Wikipedia can enlighten me.

 

[Impureclient]

It took some digging but, I finally found this. First it was misspelled, I suppose, and second it's the only thing that I could come up with anywhere.
I'm guessing it's just an axe head without the handle that is more portable? Seems like the kind of thing MacGyver would have laying around.

This Schatchet has been a woodland, hunting and camping companion of mine since 1974. It carries well on the belt with or without handle. I can craft a green stick handle in less than 10 minutes that is virtually unbreakable and totally functional. This handle shown here is a dead stick handle that went together iin less that 3 minutes. The inside of the hammer potion is taper threaded so you can wind the handle on. I have used this tool to chop firewood, split kindling, split deer and mule deer pelvis, chop leg bones in two, hammer nails and drive tent stakes. It has a gutting notch that will un-zip a deer like it had a zipper. The curved section of the blade is razor sharp and is a good skinner. The flat section of the blade is hatchet ground and designed for heavy work.

 

[Maddox]

Didnt happen to me, but a guy that works for me:

He left work early one night only to arrive home and find a guy trying to steal his daughters car. He was able to pull his sig but before he could use it he was attacked by a 2nd guy that was lookout for the 1st guy. He was struck in the head 2 times, the 2nd hit brought him to the ground. With the SIG still in his hand he was able to put 1 round in the attackers hip, thus stopping the attack.

After hearing the gunshot his neighbors came to his aid and held the first guy at gun point until the police arrived.

1 week later while exiting his daughters car in front of his house he was shot in the stomach by a .22lr round fired from a truck parked down the road. Even after being shot he was able to get the plate numbers and description of the truck.

The truck was registered to the family of the first attacker that was shot in the hip. Police went to the registered address where they found the truck with the rifle still in the back seat. The guy is now being charged with attempted murder.

 

[Kind of Blued]

They get away with beer this time, cash the next, and the counter guys life after that. Unchecked, they always get worse. Always!

There are preachers, nuns, doctors, lawyers, and judges who stole beer from garages when they were kids and never got caught or reprimanded. Whether you want to shoot at them or not is your deal, but your reasoning behind it, and the statement above are, quite simply, incorrect.

 

[rainbowbob]

There are preachers, nuns, doctors, lawyers, and judges who stole beer from garages when they were kids...

K.O.B.: Without reviewing this entire thread to re-read Griz44's post...I believe he was referring to those who would rob a store - not the kids who sneak into a garage and pilfer.

As one who snuck into the basement of a friend's absent neighbor as a 14-year-old to pilfer their stash of home-made "champagne" (45 years ago), I can tell you I would not have been willing to risk confronting them, or a store clerk, to commit the crime.

Doing so would indicate a lack of care for one's own safety and/or the safety of others. Such an uncaring attitude might lead to a future of escalating crimes.

By-the-way...ironically, I met the victims of my crime through an unrelated connection 40 years later and was a able to confess and apologize.

 

[Shadow Man]

Yeah, I have. There is really no way to tell you when is the right time, and when isn't. It's a situational decision, pure and simple. Alot of it is intuition if you are not in an intrinsically hostile zone. When you get your CCW and you make that decision to start carrying, you have to understand that lethal force on your part is now a responsibility you carry along with that handgun.

 

[wishin]

Yes, but that was in Vietnam a long time ago!

 

[Cornbred]

A few years back my parents and I were traveling from Texas to Tennessee for vacation. We had stopped for gas somewhere in Arkansas to get some gas. As soon as my dad put the car in park, this idiot opened up the drivers side door yelling and screaming at my dad about something. I don't think that the guy got the door completely open before my dad had drawn his 357 revolver (I had no idea he was carrying or where it came from) and drove the barrel deep into his chest and pushed him away from my mother and I in the car. The only words I heard my dad say was "THATS A GOOD WAY TO GET YOUR BLEEP KILLED". The guy began apoligizing while he ran back to his car and drove away extremely fast. My father holstered, filed up with gas and continued our trip. I was totally amazed at my father.

 

[gym]

When you say "used" does that mean fired, or does it include stoping a threat?

 

[dstoke]

About four years ago I was riding in the car with my dad in a pretty safe city (Addison, TX), we were about three blocks from home when a car behind us cut into oncoming traffic passed us going about 60 in a 40 and almost hit us as it swerved into our lane. My dad honked his horn and both cars turned left. At the next red light that car moved over to the right lane, we were in the middle lane. Well the right lane was for right turn only so it wasn't occupied, we were about 10 cars behind the intersection in the middle lane. That car had two Hispanic gangster looking guys in it and stopped right next to us. They were blocking a bunch of cars behind them and the driver stared at me with probably one of the most evil stares I have ever seen. My dad looks over and asks me to open the glove box and quietly hand him the .38 special he's got in there. A few seconds later the driver and the passenger of that car both exit and walks toward my side of the car, the passenger had an iron bar in his hand or something like that. My dad told me to lean back and he proceeded to point his revolver at the two idiots. They ran back to the car pretty fast and drove off.