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mctowalot wrote: If no one answered that was considered game for consideration of entry.

That's why I always watch to see where they go after I don't answer the door.
Hopefully they just go away because it wouldn't be in their best interest to try to get in.

witchdoctor575:

Your bride has her own 1911?

She rocks.

SIA

I believe in armed when legal and that applies to my house as well mine even sits on the back of the toilet when I shower because crime never takes a break and I never know when it will happen to me.

My best friend (he is LEO), my girlfriend and her friends laugh at me because I OC inside the house. My response to them is "Thats why its called a HOME-invasion".

TxSigp229 wrote:My best friend (he is LEO), my girlfriend and her friends laugh at me because I OC inside the house. My response to them is "Thats why its called a HOME-invasion".

Agreed, home invasions rarely occur at the mall

surprise_i'm_armed wrote:witchdoctor575:

Your bride has her own 1911?

She rocks.

SIA

yup... she has a pt1911. although she wants an officers model when she gets her chl. don't all wifes have their own 1911's? i don't think she is as worried about home invasion as I am, so I don't think she will ever carry at home.

Now you guys have me thinking that a No Soliciting sign isn't enough.

How about this:

"Solicitors will be treated like scouts for a burglary ring" or "Strangers at my door will be treated like home invasion suspects"



The only time my sidearm isn't on my hip are when it is forbidden by enforceable law and when I'm in the shower. I have 2 kids at home too, 6 and 4 years old. Oh, sorry, maybe when I'm in the field bird hunting the pistol can stay in the truck if it's hot and I don't want to soak the holster with sweat, but then I have a shotgun instead.

CDH wrote:Now you guys have me thinking that a No Soliciting sign isn't enough.
How about this:
"Solicitors will be treated like scouts for a burglary ring" or "Strangers at my door will be treated like home invasion suspects"

The only time my sidearm isn't on my hip are when it is forbidden by enforceable law and when I'm in the shower. I have 2 kids at home too, 6 and 4 years old. Oh, sorry, maybe when I'm in the field bird hunting the pistol can stay in the truck if it's hot and I don't want to soak the holster with sweat, but then I have a shotgun instead.

You disarm to shower? You need one of those non-rusting ceramic/porcelain Glocks

dewayneward wrote:Carry 24/7 or guess right.....

To the person that doesnt like solicitors, we have had some success with putting up a no solicitor sign. My wife and I fought about that, but everytime I sat down for dinner, the doorbell would ring and my wife would not answer the door ...

LOL.

I came up with a solution that works for me.
I removed the hard wired door bell button and replaced it with a wireless bell and button.
When I am expecting someone, I put the button out. I have it on velcro for easy removal.
Or, as is most often the case, I don't have the button out at all.
I enjoy watching solicitors try to find the button.
I must be bored.

PappaGun wrote:

dewayneward wrote:Carry 24/7 or guess right.....

To the person that doesnt like solicitors, we have had some success with putting up a no solicitor sign. My wife and I fought about that, but everytime I sat down for dinner, the doorbell would ring and my wife would not answer the door ...

LOL.

I came up with a solution that works for me.
I removed the hard wired door bell button and replaced it with a wireless bell and button.
When I am expecting someone, I put the button out. I have it on velcro for easy removal.
Or, as is most often the case, I don't have the button out at all.
I enjoy watching solicitors try to find the button.
I must be bored.

Howbout putting a whole bunch of buttons there and watch through the peephole at their confusion .

Howbout putting a whole bunch of buttons there and watch through the peephole at their confusion

Or an ambulance siren and light bar lights hard wired to the doorbell. Talk about a rude awakening!

I like that "whole bunch of buttons" idea, sounds more entertaining than what I was going to do .... remove the button and paint a fake button there.

joe817 wrote:

Howbout putting a whole bunch of buttons there and watch through the peephole at their confusion

Or an ambulance siren and light bar lights hard wired to the doorbell. Talk about a rude awakening!

LOLLOLLOL!

joe817 wrote:

Howbout putting a whole bunch of buttons there and watch through the peephole at their confusion

Or an ambulance siren and light bar lights hard wired to the doorbell. Talk about a rude awakening!

Running with that idea, but avoiding upsetting the neighbours, how about a button that, instead of ringing a bell, simply lights up a "No Solicitors" sign?

You could even combine that with PappaGun's approach, and have a switch indoors, so's you could set it to "Doorbell" when you were expecting someone and "No Solicitors" the rest of the time.

How about a button that activates an external speaker that sounds like a shotgun being racked? For better effect, put the speaker in the bush that's in the yard.