Have you ever actually drawn your CHL Weopon in self defense

[anygunanywhere]

Yes, Last year shot and killed a rattle snake in self defense. He was coming at me very fast and only a few feet away. Thank God for snake shot. Ok it was a snake, but the situation was very real. He never rattled, he just came right at me.

Rattlesnakes never did always rattle but they do so even less these days as a result of the pig population. Pigs love to eat snakes so they have learned not to rattle.

Anygunanywhere

Really? That's interesting. Are they not affected much by the snake's bite?

I expect that they are affected if bitten.. Pigs are pretty smart and undoubtedly have figured out how to kill rattlers. There are other animals that feed on rattlers. Roadrunners have been known to kill snakes. Don't forget the mongoose and cobras.

Pigs are tough animals and depending on the severity and location of the bite they could survive. I had a female lab that got bit on the neck by a water moccasin. Took her to the vet and she told me that there was not much she could do, just keep her hydrated and give aspirin. Her throat closed off from the swelling so I inserted some surgical tubing in her throat and gave her water. After two days she was playing as usual.

The vet told me that some animals will have immunity to venom depending on how much the snake injects.

Anygunanywhere

[solaritx]

Once yes, once no...in both cases did not have to discharge weapon

1) working at an art foundry alone in metal building (west side of Houston) about 5-6 yrs ago. Guy comes in and tried to rob the place with a knife. Draw but did not have to fire as he yelled a cuss word and turned and ran. Police report on file.
2) Came out of a gas station on Hwy 6 West side Houston about 9 yrs ago or so. No bells or whistles and peacefully not paying attention. Young man came up behind me and sucker punched me in my right kidney. Opps.....carry small of the back IWB holster that held my gun in the 3 o'clock position and a spare mag at the 10 o'clock position. He broke his hand on my gun. As I felt the hit, I turned. The guy's hand obviously broken, screamed and dove into a waiting car where he and his friend driving took off. Got plate. Police report....car stolen. No draw, no fire.

Garry N

[Dave2]

2) Came out of a gas station on Hwy 6 West side Houston about 9 yrs ago or so. No bells or whistles and peacefully not paying attention. Young man came up behind me and sucker punched me in my right kidney. Opps.....carry small of the back IWB holster that held my gun in the 3 o'clock position and a spare mag at the 10 o'clock position. He broke his hand on my gun. As I felt the hit, I turned. The guy's hand obviously broken, screamed and dove into a waiting car where he and his friend driving took off. Got plate. Police report....car stolen. No draw, no fire.

Normally I'm against laughing at other people's pain, but

[GeekwithaGun]

[solaritx]

This general response to this true story is typical. Police officer that took the information keep having to stop and wipe his eyes.

(thank Gosh I didn't tell anyone about those Buns of Steel videos )

Garry N

[RHenriksen]

THAT is a beautiful thing. Sounds like just the sort of story that Jerry Patterson would love in his speeches.

2) Came out of a gas station on Hwy 6 West side Houston about 9 yrs ago or so. No bells or whistles and peacefully not paying attention. Young man came up behind me and sucker punched me in my right kidney. Opps.....carry small of the back IWB holster that held my gun in the 3 o'clock position and a spare mag at the 10 o'clock position. He broke his hand on my gun. As I felt the hit, I turned. The guy's hand obviously broken, screamed and dove into a waiting car where he and his friend driving took off. Got plate. Police report....car stolen. No draw, no fire.

Garry N

[TexasGal]

I LOVE that story! That's AWESOME!

[USAFgoober]

I havent had to draw down on anyone yet but I've come close twice (been CCWing for just under two years now):

First Time - About a year ago at 1am I get a call from a buddy that he needs a ride home from a bar. He sounds agitated and said he needs one ASAP so I throw on some clothes and at the last second before leaving I decided to bring my HK P2000. I show up at the bar and my buddy's already waiting in the parking lot. He runs to my car, gets in, and as I'm about to ask him what's going on, a 300+lbs thug that's clearly piss drunk runs out of the bar and waddles as fast as he can towards us. He's cursing, waving his arms, telling my friend how he's going to kill him for disrespecting him, etc. I turn the ignition right away and the dumbass moves right in front of my car to block us from driving off. My buddy (who's also drunk) opens the passenger door to get out and confront him. As I was about to yell at him to stay in the f-ing car, the door opening got the thug to walk over to that side of the car which left me enough room to drive off. The whole time I had my hand of the butt of my pistol, and my heart was beating FAST.

Second Time - Literally just a couple weeks ago. Its about 11am on a weekday and I hear some commotion at my front door. I look out the window and there are two mexicans, dressed in rags, placing a ladder up to my bedroom window. Mind you this was the middle of the day and literally all the residents of my apartment complex were gone (at work) except for me. I'm watching in disbelief as one guy is holding the ladder while the other is climbing up to my bedroom window and starts messing around up there. When I came to my senses, I grabbed my G23, left through the back door and came around to confront them from behind. I had the gun tucked under my shirt with my hand on the butt. When I demand to know what the hell they're doing, one of them looks at me, and says in very broken english that "The property manager hired us to replace the window frames." So while I'm standing there, with my hand on the gun, I call the property manager to confirm and it turned out he was telling the truth. Looking back now I can't believe that the property manager and these two laborers thought it would be a good idea to do this WITHOUT providing any prior notification to the residents. Not even a knock on the door to say "Hey, we're about to do some work here." It could have ended very badly.