To chachunk, or not to chachunk

To chachunk, or not to chachunk

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The intruder's polite warning was the locked door. Things become significantly less civil when the polite warning is ignored.

Things that come next are the million candle power spotlight that charges by my dresser, (4 roommates, all my tools are in my room somehow :rolleyes: ) and harsh language with the potential for a quiet click (safety) followed by loud bang noises (trigger).
 
While you are Chachunking an armed intruder will shoot you if he is so inclined. If i expect a problem I will have one in the chamber.
 
A warning just tells an intruder where you are so he can shoot you. If someone is in my house uninvited, I am fairly certain he has not come in to inform me I have just won the lottery. He means to do me harm so my response is to be Firstest with the mostest. Shoot him first and then warn him.
 
Nightstand gun always has one in the pipe - there would be no warning. I'm not going to get shot trying to be macho.

The shotgun is a different story, but I count on my handgun if something goes bump in the night.
 
Home defense weapon is a revolver. All chambers loaded. One speed loader in reach at night along with a mag light.
No chachunk.
 
A warning just tells an intruder where you are so he can shoot you.
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People keep repeating that, but is it really true? Maybe if he's in the same room with you. But consider this scenario:

BG is tippy-toeing around living room. I'm in bedroom. I rack the slide on the 870, and bark out "I AM ARMED AND WILL DEFEND MYSELF. POLICE ARE ON THE WAY. YOU HAVE THREE SECONDS BEFORE I START SHOOTING." I immediately move to the other side of the room.

BG doesn't know exactly which room the sounds came from, and even if he guesses correctly, AND is dumb or high enough to come on against the shotty, AND thinks he knows where in the room I was standing, I've already moved.

Am I going to jump out of the bedroom door and take a chance he doesn't have his Gansta Nine pointed in my direction? Hell, no.

Are the chances pretty damned good that he'll leave pronto and not chance it again? Hell, yes.

And even if he doesn't, he's going to have to come down the hallway and into the bedroom door, backlit by the light from the other end, and face the 12-ga. with the Surefire on it. See ya.


Oh, and if for some reason I can't get to the 870, the D-E .50AE is in the nightstand, and the only sound it will need to make to get into play is the muffled snick of the safety.
 
I don't think your verbal warning should be that long.

If they don't "run" when you've stated that you've called 911, then it really doesn't matter if they know you're armed or not.

Why a Desert Eagle .50 AE? Just curious.
 
Nope. I don't CHACHUNK. There's already a round in the chamber. I want the element of surprise on my side. If BG is armed in any way, by hearing the racking of the slide he's going to be ready for a fight. Keep the element of surprise on your side. Don't give him any oppurtunity to get one up on you.:)
 
If I "chachunk", I have surrendered the element of surprise. I don't want them to know the fight has started until after it's over.
 
Like others, nightstand pistol has one in the chamber (or all cylinders) and shotgun is loaded, but nothing up the spout.
 
are you locked and loaded? And why?
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I read in one of Masaad Ayoob's columns years ago about a guy who kept a 1911 at his bedside with an empty chamber. The poice found him, 1911 in hand with a feeding jam, and a bullet hole in his skull.

No, thanks. Condition 1 for me.
 
I like this philosophy:

My bedside table pistol is ready to go. I don't have a shotgun as of yet. However, this is how my father has his set up.
Safety on
Empty chamber
Chamber closed

The idea is that if BG somehow gets hold of shot gun first, his first obstacle to firing is the safety. Once he figures that out, *click*. THEN he has to rack the shotgun. By that time, he has a nice failure drill pattern in him.

And, just in case visiting family might somehow, in some freak way, manage to somehow lay hands on it, those safety features are also in place.

But, the pistol is ready to go at all times.
 
Well, the bedside 870 is cruiser ready, the nightstand Glock 19 rests in its holster loaded. The only reason for the empty chamber of the shotgun, and the extra step with the Glock, is that I have had a couple very vivid dreams in which I was trying very hard to reach the weapon next to me, but could not. I don't want to shoot anything (least of all myself) in my sleep.
 
Why a Desert Eagle .50 AE? Just curious.
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My thinking was that when I want to stop 'em, I want to STOP 'em. Might be a bit of overkill (no pun intended), might not. Since I'm in a single family home at the bottom of a cul-de-sac with no neighbors on two sides, I'm not so concerned about overpenetration.

That said, I'm actually reconsidering for two reasons: first is that there is one angle by which a missed shot could conceivably go down the hall and out the study window that faces a neighbor's garage across the cul-de-sac. (Then again, not sure that switching to .45 ACP or 10 mm is much better in that regard.) The other is because it's a lot easier to one-hand the latter two than the DE, and somehow the idea of trying to control that bad boy with one hand while holding the flashlight with my weak hand is enough to give me pause.

BTW, did you know that "cul-de-sac" literally means "@$$ of the bag?" Hey, I'm all kinds of helpful!
 
Do you leave your chamber empty so you can chachunk your home intruder a warning?
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I couldn't vote because I keep one in the chamber, but also still chachunk for intimidation, throwing the live one out on the floor. :)
 
I propose the Chachunk grenade. It wouldn't be too hard with today's tech to make a small gadget that emits a giant chachunk. Upon hearing a bad guy, you can toss the chachunker down the stairs or outside the safe room.

There are other ways to record a Chachunk and have it played in the house.

It seems to be reasonable that one has a ready to go gun. I have available pistols and revolvers like that. The long arms - shotgun or AR (my preferred Zombie house gun) do need to be chambered but that is for safety as compared to sound effects.
 
Glen...:D

I keep mine loaded, chamber empty, with a pistol, close, and ready.

It worked for the years I was on the job, and still does.
 
bwaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaaa!!

Glen, the chachunk grenade is the funniest thing I've read on a gun forum in years. :D And, a great idea too for the guys who like the chachunk sound. They can get the chachunk right on the guy's foot.
Too funny.
:)
 
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