Bu-bye
Sorry, I'm kind of in the middle of your three types...I don't close the bedroom doors because I am a light sleeper (being a 'Nam vet...learned to sleep light when things go bump in the night.) Depends on the assessment of the sound, I will either check out the house quietly(outside or perimeter sound), or I will hunker down just inside the doorway and lay prone with semi-auto rifle(at this position I can see straight down the hallway and partially into the two bedrooms adjacent to our bedroom), wife will have 12 gauge in fall back position....this is when I am responding to unexpected inside the house sound.
Wife and daughter have responded well to training and have reacted to get to "safe room" while I am "covering" the hallway in the dark.
We also have an alarm system on all doors and windows, motion detector lights outside the house so I know where the movement is coming from and a remote control hallway and living room/family room lights to "back light" folks...now if I can just get some Claymores......hmmm.
A really good friend recommended a dog to walk "guard." Mean to take him up on that suggestion.
I guess that if you want to cut down your worries, layer your defenses....that way, you just make the odds better for you. Name of the game, right?
Sorry, I'm kind of in the middle of your three types...I don't close the bedroom doors because I am a light sleeper (being a 'Nam vet...learned to sleep light when things go bump in the night.) Depends on the assessment of the sound, I will either check out the house quietly(outside or perimeter sound), or I will hunker down just inside the doorway and lay prone with semi-auto rifle(at this position I can see straight down the hallway and partially into the two bedrooms adjacent to our bedroom), wife will have 12 gauge in fall back position....this is when I am responding to unexpected inside the house sound.
Wife and daughter have responded well to training and have reacted to get to "safe room" while I am "covering" the hallway in the dark.
We also have an alarm system on all doors and windows, motion detector lights outside the house so I know where the movement is coming from and a remote control hallway and living room/family room lights to "back light" folks...now if I can just get some Claymores......hmmm.
A really good friend recommended a dog to walk "guard." Mean to take him up on that suggestion.
I guess that if you want to cut down your worries, layer your defenses....that way, you just make the odds better for you. Name of the game, right?