Jakobs Gunworks
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Howdy all, just a thought that keeps coming back to me, and I keep finding myself different answers. So I thought I'd try the community's thoughts.
Starting info, my only option for HD gun is my Mini-14, so be it, I love that, gun has always served me well. So let's stick to rifles/carbines for this discussion, if you don't mind.
Also, I live in quiet suburbia.
And I'm the kind of guy who doesn't keep a round chambered. It just makes me uncomfortable. Even it does take me an extra half a second to work the action as the three hypothetical bad guys with handguns charge though my front door(this happened in my town recently, they never caught/arrested the gunmen), I'll take that extra half a sec to Think about what I'm doing/about to have to do.
My most recent experience of indecision, sitting outside on the back porch(which shares a wall, with a man-door into, the garage), with my girlfriend late at night having a smoke before bed and dog is asleep next to us. Something SLAMS into the inside of the man door, scares all of us, dog growls, I get up to go check, chambering a round into my rifle as I stand. I look, and find... Nothing. Still to this day dunno what made the noise.
But the thought stuck in my head. 'Did I Need to chamber that round?' 'Or was it an act of momentary paranoia, that could have put something in danger that I didn't want to destroy(even though nothing important was. Just ground)?'
Or was it an appropriate response?
How do you react when you hear a bump in the night you can't explain? When do you chamber a round(in your rifle)?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts,
-Jakob's.
Starting info, my only option for HD gun is my Mini-14, so be it, I love that, gun has always served me well. So let's stick to rifles/carbines for this discussion, if you don't mind.
Also, I live in quiet suburbia.
And I'm the kind of guy who doesn't keep a round chambered. It just makes me uncomfortable. Even it does take me an extra half a second to work the action as the three hypothetical bad guys with handguns charge though my front door(this happened in my town recently, they never caught/arrested the gunmen), I'll take that extra half a sec to Think about what I'm doing/about to have to do.
My most recent experience of indecision, sitting outside on the back porch(which shares a wall, with a man-door into, the garage), with my girlfriend late at night having a smoke before bed and dog is asleep next to us. Something SLAMS into the inside of the man door, scares all of us, dog growls, I get up to go check, chambering a round into my rifle as I stand. I look, and find... Nothing. Still to this day dunno what made the noise.
But the thought stuck in my head. 'Did I Need to chamber that round?' 'Or was it an act of momentary paranoia, that could have put something in danger that I didn't want to destroy(even though nothing important was. Just ground)?'
Or was it an appropriate response?
How do you react when you hear a bump in the night you can't explain? When do you chamber a round(in your rifle)?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts,
-Jakob's.