Real world encounter And Lesson: Always be Equipped for the situation

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Ruthless4christ

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Before you guys freak out please take note that I am in Central America at the time this story takes place. These things happen every day.

Some time ago a friend of mine who lives out of the country and keeps a vacation house here for the summer, had asked me to keep an eye on his house and the young kid who was staying in it. I stopped by every evening to check out the house and make sure that jr. was not holding any parties that were too wild.

The house is 2 miles outside of the town I live in with no other houses nearby.

I left one of my workers outside in my truck with my double barreled sawed off 12 gauge shotgun. My .45 was in the shop for a barrel change and had not brought any other long arms as I did not think my errand would take long.

I hung out at the house for awhile and took advantage of the hot water shower (a luxury in these parts, and a sweet reminder of home) and after about an hour came back out to go home. As I stepped out off the house I felt and heard bullets whizzing by my face. I looked right and saw a truck parked about 300 meters away from the house and muzzle flashes but no rifle sounds, (and no wind) QUESTION: I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH SILENCERS> DO GUNS EQUIPED WHITH SILENCERS STILL SHOW MUZZLE FLASH?

The truck was running and my partner was listening to music and talking to his gal on the phone. The corner of the house shielded us from the line of fire but there was about 100 meters of road ahead of us so I jumped into the truck and told the man to step on it. We did and as we drove away I could see continued muzzle flash.

There are no houses near this one, and no reason for any car to be in the area, and the chance of kids plinking and accidentally firing near the house is almost non-existent.

I assumed it was the beginning of a robbery so I made a couple phone calls telling jr. to stay in the 9 foot compound, and brought in backup in the form of three trucks full of well armed buddies, but the culprits got away.


LESSON OF STORY. Never limit yourself to a weapon that is only useful for one thing. My Sawed off beauty, only works up to 15 yards, and this sucker was a lot farther than that. Even my 1911 would have helped me, but I did not have it. It was only due to the grace of God that I made it out ok(which may be why He let it happen)

If this situation had been a little more well planned by the culprits(or a little better aim entailed.) This could have ended quite differently.

I have since then always made sure I have something on hand to level the playing field. Heck even a 22. magnum would have been good.
 
that's one crazy story mi amigo.

My dad told me a story about when he was down in El Salvador many years ago, his friend (and apparently everybody else) drove around with a pistol in his lap.
 
QUESTION: I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH SILENCERS> DO GUNS EQUIPED WHITH SILENCERS STILL SHOW MUZZLE FLASH?
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Depends on ammo, barrel length, and the suppressor. But there is still some sound, and the sonic crack from the ammo. But for the most part it should be gone.

Here is a muzzle flash comparison from a 10" barrel IIRC:
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Anyways seems like a good case for a carbine or a longer shotgun, a good shooter can engage targets 100 yards or more with slugs.
 
cool

thanks alot for the info. dont think it would have been a shotgun, since quite a few shots were fired in a very short period of time. seems like it would have had to have been a rifle
 
Actually I was speaking of using a shotgun on your part since it can be used up to 100 yards with slugs, and still be using for Buck and Bird Shot.

There are also semi-auto shot guns with magazines like the Saiga 12, which has a 5 and 10 round magazine available, along with a 20 round drum.
 
:rolleyes: I think there's another moral to this story. If I had bullets whizzing past my head, my first thought wouldn't be to respond. No matter what weapon system I carried, my first thought would be to:

GET OFF THE X! :eek:
 
as i said the only gun was a double sawed off. i had no idea if maybe thay had people hiding nearby in ambush, i was not gonna waste to rounds, on a target hundreds of yards away(an impossible shot) only to eat lead myself from some guy jumping out of the bushes two feet away.:o
 
There are more countries in this world I will not visit than countries I would. Central America, South America, Africa, most of Asia, eastern Europe, Russia, no thank you.
 
it's actually prett funny, becuase people here are alot kinder and more polite, than people in most places in the states. most people here would give the shirt off thier back toa stranger. bu then again they do stuff like this to you. kinda confusing.:confused:
 
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