roval
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I'm putting this here don't know if it belongs to strategies etc...
My wife and woke up at 3:15 am with a phone call and the house alarm ringing. it was the security company asking if we were ok. i've considered myself a light sleeper but i must've been in the deep phase of sleep because i didn't wake up till the phone call(biked 27 miles that am after no biking for a a few months).
got my 9 mm from the small electronic safe. a)waking up from deep sleep. it took me 2 tries to punch in the number. b)i store my gun with a loaded magazine not inserted in the gun but i don't think it would have added anything to me keeping it loaded and then press checking it. our alarm company said the alarm came from the living room zone/kitchen. i turned on all the lights cautiously moved into the space and checked the sliding door, the windows in the affected zone , turned on all the outside lights. after checking the affected zone i opened the door to the garage(not the garage door). everything good. i went to the second floor and checked all the windows and the rooms and closets. everything good. left all the outside lights on for the rest of the night.
for a couple of my self critiques-realized this later. c)since i knew the alarm wasn't on for long and the affected zone wasn't in the upstairs. i was less stringent about slicing the pie.d) I did keep my finger off the trigger the whole time except when i switched from my strong hand to weak hand but i noted later that briefly i had the finger inside the trigger guard immediately after the switch.( i would have covered my arm with the muzzle if i kept the muzzle at the closet(potential threat) and didn't switch hands). e) weapon didn't have a mounted weapon light but not sure if it would have been an advantage(still reconsidering it now). I did use a flashlight later to recheck the windows.
i purposefully didn't step outside to look around in case there was somebody out there. one of the tactics suggested by the best defense show. my family was in the same room when this happened (my son had wanted to sleep with us- don't ask me how hold he is) so i didn't have to gather the family.
I already knew from before i could never open the main gun safe in an emergency situation and this bears this out. keeping a gun ready without a safe is not an option in my house even if my son knows never to touch them unless i allow him.
this am i checked the outside and everything was ok. window screens were not tampered with. still don't know what caused the alarm.
my wife is antigun but now is asking for a gun she could handle but i doubt she'll practice adequately. I've invited her regularly to the range but has only gone with me a couple of times. if I was away and it happened , i don't know if it will be safer for her to cower like sheep and have police come and check things out than cower with a gun she hasn't practiced with(maybe this will change things)
for others that have been in a similar situation have you found yourself doing something stupid or less than ideal since you weren't fully with it when it happened?
My wife and woke up at 3:15 am with a phone call and the house alarm ringing. it was the security company asking if we were ok. i've considered myself a light sleeper but i must've been in the deep phase of sleep because i didn't wake up till the phone call(biked 27 miles that am after no biking for a a few months).
got my 9 mm from the small electronic safe. a)waking up from deep sleep. it took me 2 tries to punch in the number. b)i store my gun with a loaded magazine not inserted in the gun but i don't think it would have added anything to me keeping it loaded and then press checking it. our alarm company said the alarm came from the living room zone/kitchen. i turned on all the lights cautiously moved into the space and checked the sliding door, the windows in the affected zone , turned on all the outside lights. after checking the affected zone i opened the door to the garage(not the garage door). everything good. i went to the second floor and checked all the windows and the rooms and closets. everything good. left all the outside lights on for the rest of the night.
for a couple of my self critiques-realized this later. c)since i knew the alarm wasn't on for long and the affected zone wasn't in the upstairs. i was less stringent about slicing the pie.d) I did keep my finger off the trigger the whole time except when i switched from my strong hand to weak hand but i noted later that briefly i had the finger inside the trigger guard immediately after the switch.( i would have covered my arm with the muzzle if i kept the muzzle at the closet(potential threat) and didn't switch hands). e) weapon didn't have a mounted weapon light but not sure if it would have been an advantage(still reconsidering it now). I did use a flashlight later to recheck the windows.
i purposefully didn't step outside to look around in case there was somebody out there. one of the tactics suggested by the best defense show. my family was in the same room when this happened (my son had wanted to sleep with us- don't ask me how hold he is) so i didn't have to gather the family.
I already knew from before i could never open the main gun safe in an emergency situation and this bears this out. keeping a gun ready without a safe is not an option in my house even if my son knows never to touch them unless i allow him.
this am i checked the outside and everything was ok. window screens were not tampered with. still don't know what caused the alarm.
my wife is antigun but now is asking for a gun she could handle but i doubt she'll practice adequately. I've invited her regularly to the range but has only gone with me a couple of times. if I was away and it happened , i don't know if it will be safer for her to cower like sheep and have police come and check things out than cower with a gun she hasn't practiced with(maybe this will change things)
for others that have been in a similar situation have you found yourself doing something stupid or less than ideal since you weren't fully with it when it happened?