This just happened to me as I was perusing through the forums this afternoon.
I was sitting at my computer in the basement reading through my favorite forums (this one :danceban: ). My 2 year old is asleep in the next room.
Suddenly I heard a vehicle pull into the driveway. I looked out the window to see it was a strange van. Now I have a 180 ft deep driveway with a 6 foot fence surrounding my whole lot. Unknown people do not just pull all the way into my driveway for fun.
I instantly go into full alert. My dog is instantly on alert as well, but stays quiet because the child is asleep. I immediately move up to my masterbedroom loft, where my glock 23 is secured in a bedside vault. (reference that I have a child, my firearms are always secured) The dog does as she is supposed to do and moves up to the main floor, but stays near the stairs so that she can respond to the back to the basement if need be.
As I retreive my gun and an extra mag, I begin moving back down the stairs to the main floor. I take a good breath and quickly run through my mind all things I need at the immediate moment, and I swear under my breath as I realize I forgot my phone at the computer. Despite that, I still move forward to check the driveway through the window and then the rest of the property. It turns out that someone was just turning around and had allready left. I will still be cautious now because I may have just been cruised by a BG. I tend to err on the cautious armed side since in the time we have lived here we have had an attempted break in, a visit by a drunk man, and a visit by a meth head.
I guess what bothered me, and I take as a lesson learned, is that I forgot my phone. I try to keep the option of calling in the calvary on me at all times. Everything else went smooth for such an immediate call to action. No nerves, shaking, loss of motor action.
Your thoughts and opinions?
I was sitting at my computer in the basement reading through my favorite forums (this one :danceban: ). My 2 year old is asleep in the next room.
Suddenly I heard a vehicle pull into the driveway. I looked out the window to see it was a strange van. Now I have a 180 ft deep driveway with a 6 foot fence surrounding my whole lot. Unknown people do not just pull all the way into my driveway for fun.
I instantly go into full alert. My dog is instantly on alert as well, but stays quiet because the child is asleep. I immediately move up to my masterbedroom loft, where my glock 23 is secured in a bedside vault. (reference that I have a child, my firearms are always secured) The dog does as she is supposed to do and moves up to the main floor, but stays near the stairs so that she can respond to the back to the basement if need be.
As I retreive my gun and an extra mag, I begin moving back down the stairs to the main floor. I take a good breath and quickly run through my mind all things I need at the immediate moment, and I swear under my breath as I realize I forgot my phone at the computer. Despite that, I still move forward to check the driveway through the window and then the rest of the property. It turns out that someone was just turning around and had allready left. I will still be cautious now because I may have just been cruised by a BG. I tend to err on the cautious armed side since in the time we have lived here we have had an attempted break in, a visit by a drunk man, and a visit by a meth head.
I guess what bothered me, and I take as a lesson learned, is that I forgot my phone. I try to keep the option of calling in the calvary on me at all times. Everything else went smooth for such an immediate call to action. No nerves, shaking, loss of motor action.
Your thoughts and opinions?