Hello, I am new here, just want your thoughts on my best defense. Now, let me explain my house as well as I can.
As you walk through my front door, four steps forward and my oldest daughters room is to your right. Another four steps forward, and to your right is a small hallway, maybe 7 feet long. If you turn 90 degrees to your right and enter that hallway, there is a guest bathroom to your left, and my youngest daughters room is directly in front of you, down that hallway. Now, if you then turn 180 degrees, facing the opposite direction, you are facing my living room on the left, and my dining room and kitchen on the right. (open floor plan). If you walk to your left, through the living room, the master bedroom is at the end of the living room. If you walk through the bedroom door, our bed is at your left, headboard against the wall adjoining the living room. If you continue straight into the bedroom, there is the master bathroom door to your right. If you turn 90 degrees to your right and enter the bathroom, directly to your right is a walk in closet, which is where my guns are stored.
So far, since I have kids in the house, my plan is as follows:
at the end of the closet there is a 4 foot tall dresser. On top of the dresser is all of my rifles, in carry cases, unloaded. My ammo also sits on top of this dresser, locked in a "sentry" safe. In this safe I also keep my .38 special, fully loaded. Above this dresser on the upper shelf, I keep all of my motocross riding gear. As of now, I have the key to this safe hidden up in my riding gear, inside one of my riding boots, so I would basically have to run to this closet, grab the boot, get the key, and unlock the safe. To my best guess, it would take less than a minute from the bed. While in the safe, the best goal would be to waistband the .38 as a backup, and grab some shells to throw in my Mossberg.
Just so you know, the weapons options I have are a Mossberg 500 pump, A J.C. Higgins model 30 semi auto .22LR, A Marlin/Glenfield model 20 bolt acton .22LR (with a 7 round clip, also loaded and in the safe)., and a S&W .38 special, as I said, fully loaded and in the "Sentry" safe.
What is my best defense??
My floor plan is obviously very crappy from a HD point of view, as If I come out of my room armed, I am firing directly across the house toward both my daughters rooms, which is what makes me feel that the Mossberg fired at head level would be my best bet.
Any thought would be extremely appreciated, as this issue is always heavily on my mind. Every time I ponder my floor plan, the issue of HD is always at the top of my thoughts.
Thanxs!!
Eric
As you walk through my front door, four steps forward and my oldest daughters room is to your right. Another four steps forward, and to your right is a small hallway, maybe 7 feet long. If you turn 90 degrees to your right and enter that hallway, there is a guest bathroom to your left, and my youngest daughters room is directly in front of you, down that hallway. Now, if you then turn 180 degrees, facing the opposite direction, you are facing my living room on the left, and my dining room and kitchen on the right. (open floor plan). If you walk to your left, through the living room, the master bedroom is at the end of the living room. If you walk through the bedroom door, our bed is at your left, headboard against the wall adjoining the living room. If you continue straight into the bedroom, there is the master bathroom door to your right. If you turn 90 degrees to your right and enter the bathroom, directly to your right is a walk in closet, which is where my guns are stored.
So far, since I have kids in the house, my plan is as follows:
at the end of the closet there is a 4 foot tall dresser. On top of the dresser is all of my rifles, in carry cases, unloaded. My ammo also sits on top of this dresser, locked in a "sentry" safe. In this safe I also keep my .38 special, fully loaded. Above this dresser on the upper shelf, I keep all of my motocross riding gear. As of now, I have the key to this safe hidden up in my riding gear, inside one of my riding boots, so I would basically have to run to this closet, grab the boot, get the key, and unlock the safe. To my best guess, it would take less than a minute from the bed. While in the safe, the best goal would be to waistband the .38 as a backup, and grab some shells to throw in my Mossberg.
Just so you know, the weapons options I have are a Mossberg 500 pump, A J.C. Higgins model 30 semi auto .22LR, A Marlin/Glenfield model 20 bolt acton .22LR (with a 7 round clip, also loaded and in the safe)., and a S&W .38 special, as I said, fully loaded and in the "Sentry" safe.
What is my best defense??
My floor plan is obviously very crappy from a HD point of view, as If I come out of my room armed, I am firing directly across the house toward both my daughters rooms, which is what makes me feel that the Mossberg fired at head level would be my best bet.
Any thought would be extremely appreciated, as this issue is always heavily on my mind. Every time I ponder my floor plan, the issue of HD is always at the top of my thoughts.
Thanxs!!
Eric
