Again, anyone who knows me personally will attest that I am nothing like Mick. He’s not an “I-guy” in this series. Frankly, I think he’s a bit of a whiny bitch. But this will change, oh yes. Quite a bit.
There are traces of my divorce, ten years ago, in his moping. But I’ve made him ten years younger than me, and even more dopey than I was at that age. Perhaps he just needs the right woman?
I do not personally sleep with a gun under my pillow. I keep my .357 in the bedframe, on the side of the mattress, where my hand naturally falls over the side of the bed if I roll that way. As a couple people in my life have discovered, including Mel one night, when she came back late from a party and startled me, I can get to it in about .5 seconds, ready to rock. It’s my favorite gun ever. I call it my teddy bear. It’s a black Taurus model 669 that I am lethal with at both long distances, and short. Pulled off hitting a gong one-handed, 10″ steel, at just over 100 yards one day – witnesses were awed. I love, love, love this pistol. Woe betide the home intruder who rouses my anger while I’m in bed.
So, where do you keep YOUR home defense weapon?
My first shots, years ago, with this revolver:
I’d suggest he get a dog, they’d be more than happy to hop up and share the bed, but it wouldn’t be fair to the dog with how many hours he works and is away from home. As much as I hate to say it, maybe a cat would fill the empty home better. I know after my ex moved out, I was glad to have the dogs at home. Also I didn’t wait more than one weekend to visit with my dad and bring back home one of my guns, my SKS, since my ex didn’t want any guns in the house b/c of her mental health problems and didn’t trust herself around them.
Hope you can figure out something with the comments and registration, that WP login wasn’t working for me, never got an email after signing up here (since it didn’t like my WP account for other blogs, dunno why not).
My bedroom gun is a Mossberg 500, 18.5″ barrel, loaded with #1 buck. I live in a townhouse, so the shot size is a compromise between over-penetration worries, and stopping power. The gun sits in the corner, and is about 2 feet from my hand when I’m in bed.
Good call. #1 for 12 gauge or #3 for 20 ga both have been proven to penetrate well, especially at across-the-room distances, but without quite the force of 00.
Our backyard is two hundred acres of tree farm. I’ve bought triple-ought in the past (though it’s not my standard load; double-ought is cheaper, dammit) and I too am a fan of the inexpensive, readily-available Mossberg. (Though I have been known to ogle Saigas online.)
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Mossberg JIC2, with home defender shells. Before that, Hi-Power 9mm with Cor-Bons.
Heh. Mel’s Home def piece is her Hi-Power Mk 1, a relic (in beautiful shape) from WWII that still fires as beautifully today as it did coming off the assembly line.
I’m not known as being particularly “quick on the draw” when awoken from a sound sleep. For that reason, the duty weapon is about 2 steps away from my bed. If something goes bump in the night, the plan is to get up, take those two steps, shut the bedroom door, lock it, and then get the weapon. Hopefully, the synapses will have aligned by then. Cross to the wife’s side of the bed, hunker down, grab the Mossy, and call the cop’s dispatch line on the cell phone.
’bout a year+ ago we had the chance to put it into effect. In the middle of the night, our two dogs let loose with the racket only two enraged German Shepherds can make. I woke up after kicking the door shut, while reaching for the weapon. I was about to knock off the safety — when my wife spied the neighbor’s fearsome 3/4 pound kitten playing in our backyard.
Dumb dogs.
A good (un)dressed rehearsal.
Personally, I’d be worried having a Condition One gun so close when I’m sleeping.
Ehn. My Taurus is a revolver with a DA pull of about 11 lbs.