would you feel under-gunned with 5-shot .38 special?
LOL! Course not!,,,,,sitting here in the full sunlit morning that is.
Change that to a dark 4:00AM with a weird and rare Easterly wind that played havoc with the front door, and sounded and LOOKED for all the world like someone was trying it,,,,,,
At the time I was wondering if the 4 rounds of 00 Buck in the 870, would buy me enough time to get downstairs and into the safe.
Then there was the time that someone actually did break in the house. My wife heard footsteps downstairs and woke me up. I grabbed my Ruger Blackhawk .45Colt and loaded it up,,stuffed it in the back of my underwear and grabbed both of the dogs (a pure white German Shepherd and a black/brown Great Dane) by the collar to go,,,GET IM Kids!!. What followed was legendary,,,,*sigh*. The Dane decided he'd much rather sleep than fight and decided the time was right to do the ole Alpha Male challange on me (IIRC, he was about a year old at the time and at the feeling his oats stage). The Shep, not really caring for the Dane from the get go, decided it was time to do the Alpha Female thing,,or whatever,, on the Dane for "threating her Daddy"<--me. So here I am,,stuck in the middle of close to 300 pounds of disagreeable dogs,,,heavy S/A revolver stuck in the back of my "elasticly challenged" drawers trying to sort things out. End result, the gun fell on the floor, I fell on the gun and put a real nasty bruise on my back and ended up with a real "kidney killer" ache that lasted for months. Ended up with the drawers at half mast, and the "moon over miami" pointing down towards the living room from the staircase.
5 shots,,,yeah,,that would have done just fine at the time,,one for each dog, and three in the ceiling to shut up my hystericly laughing wife.
The BG? Who the heck cared? I can only imagine what the poor wretch thought... Crazy man lives there,,,wrestles Polar Bears and Grizzle Bears,,,ugly giant of a fella too,,huge black eye and huge swollen lips from fightin them bears.
*For the record,,the above is about 97% true,,it really did happen.