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My MIL was close to 80 and living alone in a Taylor, Texas bungalow back in the 80's. Late one night her two little rat dawgs (toy poodles) started barking up a storm at the door to her back porch. Ol' MIL quickly grabbed her pot metal smokepipe and took a look outside. Lo & behold there was a shirtless young dude (maybe in his 20's or 30's) standing on the rear steps fumbling with her latched screen door.

She said the guy appeared to be under the influence of mind altering chemicals of some sort, so she threw down on him and said she would shoot if he didn't "get the hell off my property". Anyways, the perp/idiot thought about it for a minute after staring at that mighty cannon, then decided to retreat. Good thing she didn't shoot him, as he was probably just drunkenly discombobulated and was trying to get home to crash.

All's well that end well, but let me say that I was unaware that the MIL even possessed this popgun. Upon hearing her account, I examined the weapon and discovered that it had one round in the pipe and one too many in the magazine. She would have gotten one round off, but then the thing would have been an instant paperweight. So a few days later I bought a Chief's Special and took her to a local dump & had her run through a box of ammo (she had never fired the Titan).