But I drew a fired my carry weapon tonight. I was in the basement of the daughters house reloading a bunch of 45ACPwhen my wife jumped through the door and dropped the laundery. Now in 33 years of knowing this lady I have never heard her scream, she just is not the screaming type, but this was a close as I have ever heard her to a real scream. There were three Boerboels in the yard, one in our duck pen doing it's best to kill our ducks, one just watching and one stalking the wife. I hit the back yard and drew the 1911. three quick rounds into the ground and all I saw were Boerboel butts.My daughter was on the phone with the owner and he was begging me not to shoot his dogs. He can move pretty fast when his thousand dollar dogs are in my sights. All ended well and I think he will work harder at keeping them in.
So when some ask why I carry every day all day and wonder if I live in some sort of paranoia I will just smile and know I carry because I love my family and my farm.
I've come close to killing dogs around here. One took out half our chicken flock a couple years ago. His owner was a 13 year old girl down the road, and he was a neat little dog, chicken-killing aside. That said he'd used up his lives around here.
One of the more effective tools I've used in debating guns with my liberal friends is to point out how different it is out in the country. Anti-gun people tend to concentrate in cities; give them some actual, real life tales of guns as tools in the country and you can at least get them to concede that gun restrictions that apply across the board are unfair and unreasonable in the country. From there the next debate step is to point out that their left-wing fear of a fascist government doesn't exactly jibe with their notion of ONLY the government being armed! And if they are still hanging in, an exploration of what makes a free man, free, usually opens eyes.
But anyway Rick- I've been pretty much exactly where you just were; you did good. That said, the dogs MAY have learnt a lesson, or not. Once they start chasing livestock it's hard to break them, especially if they taste blood.
