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Posted: 9/6/2005 4:55:36 PM EDT
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Had someone cover me , and hit him with a spotlight saying WTF stop.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 4:55:51 PM EDT
[#2]
exactly as you had done. filed a report with the local dept. and only confront if threatend.
could have been someone dui and lost. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 4:56:56 PM EDT
[#3]
got out the 10 million candlelight flashlight and light them up to get a description of the vehicle and called the sheriff.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 4:58:46 PM EDT
[#4]
I'd do what you did except the call the sheriff part.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:03:51 PM EDT
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Well folks, there's more to the story. As my wife was on the phone with the sheriff, I jumped in my pickup (with 10 mm glock and .357 Colt) and followed the vehicle. I followed the driver to another country home where they turned off their headlights. As I was parked in the road in front of the house, the sheriff's office called me on the cell phone and told me to go home, which I did.
I realized I made a couple of mistakes (1) following someone at night with a gun in the vehicle was not smart and (2) leaving my family alone without a handgun was stupid (because the driver or associate could have come back to the house to do whatever they wanted). I plan to buy a spotlight. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:06:47 PM EDT
[#6]
A motion light on your driveway would be a good addition too.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:08:32 PM EDT
[#7]
A motion light and a motion camera at the end of your driveway is a good idea. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:19:13 PM EDT
[#8]
A Bar Gate is cheap and inexpensive.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:23:32 PM EDT
[#9]
When I had a trespasser, I went out and checked the property without a light, and kept my cover and concealment.
When I thought that they were still lurking, I went back out with a DR-200, 3 loaded mags, a backup handgun and a 2 Mill CP spotlight and illuminated the woods. After I shined the light, I dumped all 90 rounds in to the woods. No trespassers since then. TRG |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:26:59 PM EDT
[#10]
Those guys were crooks, that's for sure.
Nobody turns their lights off at night unless they're up to something. Put one in the chamber, stay in the house, call the cops. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:27:44 PM EDT
[#11]
I thought about going out of the house and using my trees for cover, but didn't. I told my wife that no one, NO ONE, will ever get in the house while I am home. That's one of the reasons I own guns. The other reasons are for hunting and target shooting.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:28:13 PM EDT
[#12]
Now see, this is why I need a grenade launcher.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:30:36 PM EDT
[#13]
I tend to agree. No reason for having the lights off...they were up to no good, and I wouldn't be surprised if they made another visit sometime soon. Be watchful and carefull. HH |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:32:13 PM EDT
[#14]
Claymores are less likely to reveal your position. TRG |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:32:14 PM EDT
[#15]
Could have been something as innocent as kids looking for a place to grope each other, or have a couple beers. Could have been bad guys too.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:33:34 PM EDT
[#16]
That is what a laser pointer is for around here.
Target one with a laser pointer and watch'em run. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:33:34 PM EDT
[#17]
Called in for an air strike or heavy artillery fire mission.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:35:28 PM EDT
[#18]
A friend of mine who also lives in the country said the cops told him that punks case out country homes and look to steal four-wheelers and snowmobiles on trailers. I have neither, but my teardrop trailer was parked outside that night.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:36:18 PM EDT
[#19]
About the only thing I would have done different is to grab a long gun instead of the pistol.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:41:40 PM EDT
[#20]
Leaving your family was a mistake. The police get paid to chase criminals around, if they leave the property let the cops earn their pay, you should be protecting your family (as I think you decided later).
Personally I would've grabbed a rifle instead of a pistol. If you are in an area where there are isolated hunting cabins that are not inhabited, those get broken into pretty frequently. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 5:58:08 PM EDT
[#21]
Howdy Aimless! My brother (23 years in the Air Force) said he would have confronted the invaders and scared the shit out of them.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:02:42 PM EDT
[#22]
A guy in my county took off after two bank robbers, get this, with his wife in the car
 He came over a hill to find that they had stopped, one of them was standing in the road with a scoped 30-06. He fired once, the bullet went through the windshield, though the tip of one of his fingers, through the steering wheel, through the rest of the same finger and hit him in the chest but just barely peirced his chest.Like a deputy told a homeowner near here who shot a burglar with a 10/22. "You need to get a bigger rifle.." 
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:07:43 PM EDT
[#23]
+1 Got one of these 10 MCP Thor's to light up whatever might be running in the woods behind my house.   |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:10:05 PM EDT
[#24]
Is your address posted at the end of your driveway? Could be someone lost looking for an address.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:12:34 PM EDT
[#25]
Name and address are on the mailbox. My friend said it could have been some young guy getting a quickie blow job from his lady friend.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:13:44 PM EDT
[#26]
I don't think so, if you are just lost you aren't sneaking around in the dark. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:20:01 PM EDT
[#27]
Did the windows fog up? |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 6:48:03 PM EDT
[#28]
I wouldn't have followed and I sure would have lit them up. I'ld let all the neighbors know. They were casing. Restate that let the known trusted neighbors know.
My parents had a mountain place and the door locks were to keep the doors shut in the wind storms. Didn't keep anything of value in it. Most valuable item was a framed out of print USFS map that showed the County Ordinance shooting -No Shooting boundaries and locations of old mines. Most of the part-timer neighbors did likewise. The full-timers for the most part kept an eye out, but one of them was busted for drugs and a whole bunch of receiving stolen property charges. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 9:07:05 PM EDT
[#29]
Next time can you add in a camcorder to your list. I know it would probably be too dark to see much of anything but still it would be awesome. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 9:09:03 PM EDT
[#30]
Nah...the locals are going to know the good hiding places in the area to go do that type of stuff. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 9:21:55 PM EDT
[#31]
That would give me great cause for concern.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 10:04:49 PM EDT
[#32]
run people out of my folks back pasture once with the windows fogged up hey i wasn't getting any that night so neither was he dammit 
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