Why Stop at the Vestibule of the Castle of Pleasure?

Catholic Pundit ^ | June 22, 2009

[RobbyS]

Anglo-Celts. BTW, hope no burgler is foolish enough to break into your house. ;)

[AnAmericanMother]

When I was around 12-13 years old a burglar did try to break into my parents' house. I was the one who discovered him, and I did my best to sneak away downstairs to tell my dad -- my nerve broke on the stairs and I ran the rest of the way hollering "there's a man on the back balcony!"

He got 2 charges of No. 5 or 6 from my dad's old Parker double barrel shotgun in the seat of his pants and ran screaming off into the rainy night.

My dad's the MacGregor side of the family . . . . quite affable unless crossed . . . .

More recently, the police were trying to flush out a strongarm robber from the woods above our house. I put the kids in their beds and hunkered down behind the wood rack on the back porch with my grandfather's old Browning Light 12, but the K-9 and his handler got the guy first. Just as well, because that Browning kicks like a mule and I would have been black and blue for a week . . . . < g >

[RobbyS]

Just remember to hold it tight against the shoulder and move with the recoil.

[AnAmericanMother]

Doesn't make any difference with a Light 12. I have a Rem 870 12 ga. and a Stoeger double as well as a couple of Rem autos, and none of them punish you like the Browning "Mankiller" or "Humpback". It's mechanical recoil (biggest spring you ever saw), and something about the stock alignment makes it hit you just right (or just wrong).

At the time of our robber alert all I had in the house was the Browning and my mother's little 28 ga. dove gun, and all I had for the 28 was some skeet loads. No. 2 in a 12 ga just felt more reassuring with a possible confrontation in the offing.

My grandfather was a little man, smaller than I am (and I'm only 5'6"). How in the world he shot that thing I do not know.