Have Any of You Daily Concealed/Open Carriers Ever Needed It????

[talkstosquirrels]

Nice. I like that last one. I fortunately haven't. Kinda like the guy at Walmart, I think knowing you can take the upper hand sends a clear confidence that can not be explained, nor mistaken and can be felt by even the biggest, gnarliest a$$holes out there. Had a guy once tell me to give him my money, I just said "you've got the wrong guy, move on to somebody else buddy" and surprisingly that was all it took.

 

[No2sc2]

These stories are great! But I have a question, I see some of you guys situations where you are making the criminal stay/lay while the police come, ok say what if the criminal has only a knife but when you draw the gun they get surprised and refuse to lay down and makes a run for it, would it be your responsibility to give chase or just let it go or shoot? I know shooting wouldn't be the legal answer but what criminal who already committed the crime would stay back and waited to be arrested? Lol

 

[Ken Ford]

Man I love ODT!!!!

Reading through some of the threads on here got me wondering...

Have any of you guys that carry regularly ever actually used your weapon to stop/deter a crime in progress?

Whether you fired it or not, have you ever directed it or pulled it in order to halt a criminal?

How 'bout home defense? Have you ever used a weapon to stop an intrusion or protect your property?

POST UP!!! I want to hear your stories!!!

Yes.

 

[NWSharpshooter]

The one time I thought I might have to draw my gun, the thought that kept running through my head was, "I am going to draw, and he is going to take my gun from me and kill me with it." I kept telling myself that as soon as I cleared leather, pull the trigger, but I couldn't make the thought that I was about to be killed with my own gun go away.


It scared me enough that I did everything I could possibly think of to de-escelate the situation. As luck would have it, it worked.


Really scared me though. Not so much the situation, but the thought of being shot with my own gun. I started taking every training class I could afford after that.

Scary stuff. I hope I NEVER have to clear leather.

 

[chopper duke]

Many times when I was in Law Enforcement. Came very close to having to use on two occasions. Both long stories. One occasion I did. Very long story I don't like to talk about.

Tonight, however, the wife and I come home and three juveniles are walking in our yard between our house and our neighbors. We live on the corner so as we round it, we hit the garage door opener. It must have spooked them because all three took off down the 24" wife alley between my privacy fence and the neighbors. There's only one ext (around the side of the house) so I jumped out and ran around the house to that exit and surprised the first one to emerge. I had my shirt pulled back and my hand on my 1911. Scared the the kid so bad he jumped back and stumbled. When he recovered, he asked if I had seen a little girl come through there. I hadn't (since we had just got home) so he and the other two continued their search. Luckily, everything was fine. This time.

 

[protective measures]

The one time I thought I might have to draw my gun, the thought that kept running through my head was, "I am going to draw, and he is going to take my gun from me and kill me with it." I kept telling myself that as soon as I cleared leather, pull the trigger, but I couldn't make the thought that I was about to be killed with my own gun go away.


It scared me enough that I did everything I could possibly think of to de-escelate the situation. As luck would have it, it worked.


Really scared me though. Not so much the situation, but the thought of being shot with my own gun. I started taking every training class I could afford after that.

Scary stuff. I hope I NEVER have to clear leather.

Smart man. As of late I'm having quite a few active duty military personnel coming out to have customized classes built around their specific needs.
It strikes me as very ironic that so many people on this forum place so much emphasis on buying the latest "magic" gun in the belief that they automatically will be proficient with it in the event of an attack whereas men who most would consider highly trained keep training to MAINTAIN proficiency.

Good for you to recognize that problem & correct it.
I went through a somewhat similar process.

It just further drives home the fact that amateurs focus on hardware whereas professionals focus on software.

Sure..... as you found out in your training, anyone can shoot a gun.... but fighting with one, especially at close range is a totally different matter.

 

[NWSharpshooter]

Smart man. As of late I'm having quite a few active duty military personnel coming out to have customized classes built around their specific needs.It strikes me as very ironic that so many people on this forum place so much emphasis on buying the latest "magic" gun in the belief that they automatically will be proficient with it in the event of an attack whereas men who most would consider highly trained keep training to MAINTAIN proficiency.Good for you to recognize that problem & correct it.I went through a somewhat similar process.It just further drives home the fact that amateurs focus on hardware whereas professionals focus on software.

Funny you should say that. That night, I was carrying the prettiest inox 96 beretta I had ever seen. I owned berettas, 1911s, sigs, hks, czs,you name it. The beretta was the prettiest though, so I carried it the most.

Once I started taking classes, I discovered I cannot shoot a DA/DA for crap under stress. Slowly my collection turned from a bit of everything to nothing but striker fired, da only or sa only. Eventually I stopped shooting everything but what I carried, and stopped changing what I carried all together.

I still have 1911s and smith revolvers in the safe, and would like to add more, but you will more than likely never see me at a range shooting anything other than my 9mm glocks I carry every day. Every time I take a 1911 to the range I feel like I am undoing something that I may need one day to save my life.

 

[protective measures]

Funny you should say that. That night, I was carrying the prettiest inox 96 beretta I had ever seen. I owned berettas, 1911s, sigs, hks, czs,you name it. The beretta was the prettiest though, so I carried it the most.

Once I started taking classes, I discovered I cannot shoot a DA/DA for crap under stress. Slowly my collection turned from a bit of everything to nothing but striker fired, da only or sa only. Eventually I stopped shooting everything but what I carried, and stopped changing what I carried all together.

I still have 1911s and smith revolvers in the safe, and would like to add more, but you will more than likely never see me at a range shooting anything other than my 9mm glocks I carry every day. Every time I take a 1911 to the range I feel like I am undoing something that I may need one day to save my life.

If I had a dime from every person who told me that AFTER they went through a violent encounter or near death encounter I would have a facility like "Thunder Ranch".
That's almost verbatim what happened to me only it was a Sig 226.
The transition from double to single is very tough to master.
As you & I both found out, the less complicated the manual of arms relative to running a gun the more "mental focus" that can be directed toward evaluating the threat & dealing with it. Which is why most of the modern gun designs have passive safeties & consistent trigger pulls making them so instinctive to use.

But as you stated, the key is picking one primary platform & becoming extremely familiar with it.

 

[NWSharpshooter]

I shoot at johns mountain mostly. They have target racks at 25, 50, and 100, so I bring my own target stands.

I get a lot of snickers when I set my stands up at 7 yards, 3 yards, and 2 feet. I have actually had people laugh at me and ask me what the hell I'm doing when I practice shooting from retention at 2 feet.

I had one guy tell me if I would ditch my glock and buy a Sig like his, I could shoot at 25 like the rest of them.


That's ok though. I'm not there for target practice.

 

[talkstosquirrels]

Yes.

That was a awe inspiring story Ken! Loved it. Brief, but good!