Home invasion. I didn't carry at the time but I was able to grab my 590 after the physical fight and got a few rounds of birdshot into one of them. The 590 stays loaded with 00 Buck and I have access to a pistol at different points inside my home.
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Similar thing happened to me. I headed out with kids in the truck Taking them to school. Was one morning at barely dawn. Doe ran out and struck my door pretty hard, never saw her. She was struggling to walk so I went ahead and took the now shaken kids to school (2 miles away) and headed back. There was the doe in the street with a car stopped, occupant was a sweet woman who was very distressed at the struggling animal. Then another car stopped With kids glued to the window.I actually had an experience fairly recently that made me glad I had my G43 in my waistband. Granted, as you'll note in this story, nearly any firearm would have been suitable and the means it was carried was irrelevant.
Coming home from seeing the new Top Gun, the sun was already set, my wife and I were nearly home on a rural backroad, and there were some cars stopped in the road up ahead on both sides.
I approached cautiously but as I got closer saw why they were there. A doe was laying down with her head up on the center lines.
I got out, asked if everyone (3 ladies) was alright and they explained that none of them hit it but didn't know what to do.
Skipping some details it was clear there was nothing to be done for the poor thing. So I told them that whoever was too squeamish should go ahead and leave, which one of them did. So I unholstered and spared it more suffering, drug it to the ditch and called it a night.
I hunt and don't mind killing animals but none of them deserve to suffer for any amount of time that can be circumvented. I'm glad I didn't have to get all the way home, grab a gun, and come back to do what was necessary.
Did you shoot him?My petite 9mm model 539 trumped a Virginian Dragoon 44 mag one fine summers eve when he decided to come in and kill everyone at the house. He saw up my barrel (from nose tip level) before he could level the huge 7" barreled behemoth. (We had bandaged the wife, he was beating driving by the house when she wrecked and ran to the nearest house for help.)
That is the best way to cool down after a heated encounterAbout 10 years or so ago when I worked at the Kroger I saw to guys get into a shouting match and one of them threatened to shot the other. He put his hand of the gun and everything. Apparently they had had a run in in the parking lot with guy with the gun insulted other dudes wife. I was unarmed so I ran and hid in the walk in cooler.
While I'm 100000% sure you saved yourself a ton of hassle, financial mess, and emotional problems by not shooting.......No, he froze as I had commanded, slowly laid the gun down and retreated backwards to the wrecked car about 100 yards away. I called locals and they took 30 min, he had walked off. Gun fetched a hefty $400 many yr ago, it was engraved.