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re: Keep your head on a swivel and your doors locked
Posted on 6/30/14 at 6:53 pm to shawnlsu
Posted on 6/30/14 at 6:53 pm to shawnlsu
Nothing like the look on their face when they realize just how close to death they are. Similar thing happened to me one time on my way back from hog hunting. I guess staring down the barrel of a Mossberg will do that to you though
Congrats on the draw down!!down!!
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Posted on 6/30/14 at 6:58 pm to VetteGuy
I am very pleasantly surprised at how calm I was, although the adrenaline started to flow a little, my finger went straight to the side of the guard and thumb just under the saftey lever. Muscle memory is a crazy thing
This post was edited on 6/30/14 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:01 pm to shawnlsu
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I am very pleasantly surprised at how calm I was, althougn the started to flow a little, my fingerwent straight to the side of the guard and thumb just under the saftey lever. Muscle memory is a crazy thing
I am drifting off topic just a touch, but I remember reading how during some police shootouts some cops were stopping to pick up dropped magazines or similar due to the common practice at their training range.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:01 pm to shawnlsu
Honestly, I'd rather face a trained person that had a gun on me than an emotional numbnuts.
Good day for him, all in all.
Good day for him, all in all.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:13 pm to shawnlsu
A Baton Rouge news station recently ran a story on this. They showed video of people walking up to cars at gas pumps, opening the passenger door and stealing things.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:21 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I'm of the opinion that the odds of somebody trying something in broad daylight at a busy gas station are very low.
Then go to the Shell station in Laplace and prepare to be bombarded with drug addicts, beggers and hitchhikers!
frick that place!!!
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:22 pm to VetteGuy
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But while the confrontation is happening, I find everything gets very quiet and still. Like its easy to focus.
I definitely fond that to be the case when I had my experience with a similar situation
This post was edited on 6/30/14 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 6/30/14 at 7:37 pm to VetteGuy
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I've had more conflicts and confrontations at busy gas stations in broad daylight than any other place.
Aggressive beggars like to get up on you real close and surprise you
Same here. I tuck my carry pistol in every time I stop at a gas station. I've never had to draw it, but I've been very glad I had it several times.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:11 pm to shawnlsu
You are such a badass
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:14 pm to Coach in Waiting
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A Baton Rouge news station recently ran a story on this. They showed video of people walking up to cars at gas pumps, opening the passenger door and stealing things
This is an ABC news story, showing surveillance videos of how thieves will open passenger doors to steal stuff. LINK
I always lock my doors when I'm by myself & get out to pump gas.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:15 pm to CBDTigerFan
I know, want me to teach you how? 
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:16 pm to VetteGuy
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I've had more conflicts and confrontations at busy gas stations in broad daylight than any other place. Aggressive beggars like to get up on you real close and surprise you.
damn sure true...bums and shite always like to be where they can buy a beer or a cig as soon as someone hands them money...
Posted on 6/30/14 at 8:19 pm to shawnlsu
Had something similar happen to me years ago in Sunset. On way to watch a HS football game and pull into 7-11 type place for gf to piss. I go behind store.
Come back pretty quickly to notice a black dude had opened my door and was about to hop in my truck. He takes off running. I started truck and took off (gf still inside).
Catch him down the road (teenager)and tell him he's very lucky cause I have a .357. I know I was wrong when I went after him but was young and full of piss & vinegar back then.
Come back pretty quickly to notice a black dude had opened my door and was about to hop in my truck. He takes off running. I started truck and took off (gf still inside).
Catch him down the road (teenager)and tell him he's very lucky cause I have a .357. I know I was wrong when I went after him but was young and full of piss & vinegar back then.
Posted on 6/30/14 at 9:06 pm to weagle99
At that class I took, they were yelling at me every time I'd take the mag out instead of just dropping it to the ground. Hard to do with a $50 mag, and the habit of taking it out came from years of doing it. It's basically just "frick it, drop it"
Posted on 7/1/14 at 9:52 am to shawnlsu
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If my door hadn't been locked, I very well could be "speaking with my lawyer" right now. I am VERY aware of my surroundings and this is proof that it only takes a second of dropping your guard for someone to come up on you
Congrats on:
1. Being alert.
2. Not having to shoot.
Life will get very complicated if you end up having to shoot somebody.
As you no doubt know, the meth & bath salt smokers can walk around with (the remains of) their brains in another solar system.
And there is an extremely high incidence of schizophrenia among the homeless.
And it's estimated that roughly 4% of the adult population in this country are sociopaths.
Toss in the gangbanging thugs, and we have lots of reasons to be in condition yellow.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:04 am to shawnlsu
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grab my .45 that is right next to my change bag. While I'm drawing I look to see who/what it was and its a straggly looking obvious druggie so I continue my draw and line him up.
I think a simple "what the frick do you think you are doing" would have been enough
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:43 am to Topwater Trout
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I think a simple "what the frick do you think you are doing" would have been enough
and I'm sure many drowning victims thought they would have time to grab a life vest in the locker too. If you carry a gun, it's because you want to be the most prepared possible. He obviously took the time to train his mind and body to act accordingly, no sense in not using a critical tool of that training and preparation.
to the OP, job well done!
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:49 am to VetteGuy
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But while the confrontation is happening, I find everything gets very quiet and still. Like its easy to focus.
(Never been in a combat situation so I don't know if it's like that there-doubtful)
It is like that for me and most people with training pummeled in until it becomes muscle memory. Some, very few, who have been trained still freeze up. I have always sweated like a pig after everything has settled down. I have never seen this happen to anyone else so maybe I am wired wrong.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:54 am to Hammertime
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At that class I took, they were yelling at me every time I'd take the mag out instead of just dropping it to the ground. Hard to do with a $50 mag, and the habit of taking it out came from years of doing it. It's basically just "frick it, drop it"
This is how you should be trained. The post above that mentioned cops sticking empty mags into pockets is accurate. Now everyone is taught to drop the mag to the ground, unless you are doing a combat reload. What you do in training is what you will do when it counts.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:59 am to shawnlsu
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If my door hadn't been locked, I very well could be "speaking with my lawyer" right now.
A buddy of mine, while working in a plainclothes job with a parish - was in a substation parking lot. He had just picked up a batch of warrants to serve. He's shining his 3-cell Maglite on the warrants to try to sort them by address and create a route for the shift - he hears rustling and a guy is trying to get in the locked passenger side door, and he looks up and comes face to face with ole boy who had just opened his driver's side door.
He said - "Good thing for them the passenger door was locked - if they had come at me from both sides, I would have shot both of them. As it is, they only got stitches from the maglite."
Incredible how brazen criminals can be - in the parking lot of a substation.
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