Soo....out of curiosity, how many of you lovely TCS people have been trained how to use a shotgun? I can. Pretty well too - Colin tought me well.
I actually like shotguns better than pistols- to me they're easier to use and easier to shoot. When Colin got back in town last night he made me show him how I would "use" it again since the whole "gargage scare" this week when he was out of town. After I showed him, he said he was proud of me and felt sorry for any idiot if they ever tried to hurt me while I have a shotgun. He showed me a few more cool moves last night (like what to do depending on each room of the house i'm in, how to keep a VERY low profile, how to distract them ....etc...good stuff to know if I should ever need it.) I don't like the idea of shooting someone, but if it came down to someone breaking in and trying to harm me- darn straight I would save my life by defending myself. Thankfully, I have had a bit of training and I'm able to responsibly use and store all guns (I would NEVER have a gun without the proper storage area for it....ever. I am SUPER responsible with it) Also, I train only at the range (never hunt or anything like that.) / So anyways, I was just curious how many of you out there know how to use a shotgun, or pistol, what brand you like the best? I use a Mosseberg Maverick (12 gauge shotgun...with low recoil shells so that the recoil isn't too bad...I really love it and feel very comfortable with it should I ever need to defend myself. Especially since my little scare a few nights ago. What do you use???
(Here's what happened with the whole garage thing a few nights ago
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when I was sitting down in the living room on the couch around 4am, the garage door opened. Nobody has the garage door openers- there is one in my car and one in Colins. Also, nobody has the code to the garage door to open it. At first I thought maybe Colin flew home early...but then I was like "wait"...it's almost 4:00 in the morning, no way that's Colin and beside, his truck is in the garage-he couldn't have come home from the airport. At that point I started to flip out. I called Colin in tears and then I went on telling him that the garage door was open and that nobody has access to open it except us. The thing that freaked me out is that Colin is a cop and has arrested a lot of ppl- if someone has an agenda against him...the squad car in front of the house is like a big red target. Colin asked me if i saw or heard anyone outside and I told him that I didn't, but that didn't mean they couldn't be there....so at this point I was crying hysterically and having a hard time breathing (I was already sick and crying before this, so that definitely didn't help.) Colin told me to go in the closet and get the shotgun and the pistol....so I ran in the bedroom closet, go get them and ran back into the kitchen by the garage door and looked out the window...at this point I ran into the kitchen (out of sight of the window, flipped the garage light on, and turned off all of the lights inside the house-that way if there were someone in the garage, I could see them and take aim, but they couldn't see me...the door is a choke point....they have to go through it,and if they do- they will make themselves acquainted with the barrel of a shotgun and a nice little buckshot
)...I ran into the living room and picked out a good shot and had the shotgun cocked and ready to fire. Colin convienced me to get off the phone for 2 seconds so he could call his police friends and have them check out the house. Thankfully, they showed up not even 2 minutes later (Anytime they get a call that a fellow officer's house has something going on- they show up in no time flat- they're good about taking care of their own- i'm definitely greatful for that.) Well, two of his police friends came over and searched the outside of the house as well as every nook and craney of the whole house, including the attic? lol. They assured me that it was safe and said that what likely happened was someone was driving by the house, and the radiowaves interfeared with the garage's frequency...that or another person tried to use their garage door opener, and it accidently set off ours (I live in a very poor part of town...i've never had a garage in my life- so i've never had anything like this happen- which is what i explained to them...Colin lives in a really good neighborhood, with a garage...so even though i'm somewhat used to it, i still know nothing about garage doors.) - the guys were really supportive and assured me i was ok.....so after that they left and told me to call if i needed anything else. They were really sweet. Thankfully after that night I didn't have any more issues with the garage after that- it sure did scare me though- I left all of the security lights on and slept with a shotgun right beside me and a pistol under my pillow. Thankfully though everything as far as that goes is ok now."
(Please no negative gun comments anyone.
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(Here's what happened with the whole garage thing a few nights ago
when I was sitting down in the living room on the couch around 4am, the garage door opened. Nobody has the garage door openers- there is one in my car and one in Colins. Also, nobody has the code to the garage door to open it. At first I thought maybe Colin flew home early...but then I was like "wait"...it's almost 4:00 in the morning, no way that's Colin and beside, his truck is in the garage-he couldn't have come home from the airport. At that point I started to flip out. I called Colin in tears and then I went on telling him that the garage door was open and that nobody has access to open it except us. The thing that freaked me out is that Colin is a cop and has arrested a lot of ppl- if someone has an agenda against him...the squad car in front of the house is like a big red target. Colin asked me if i saw or heard anyone outside and I told him that I didn't, but that didn't mean they couldn't be there....so at this point I was crying hysterically and having a hard time breathing (I was already sick and crying before this, so that definitely didn't help.) Colin told me to go in the closet and get the shotgun and the pistol....so I ran in the bedroom closet, go get them and ran back into the kitchen by the garage door and looked out the window...at this point I ran into the kitchen (out of sight of the window, flipped the garage light on, and turned off all of the lights inside the house-that way if there were someone in the garage, I could see them and take aim, but they couldn't see me...the door is a choke point....they have to go through it,and if they do- they will make themselves acquainted with the barrel of a shotgun and a nice little buckshot
(Please no negative gun comments anyone.