Posted on 08/19/2018 6:03:33 AM PDT by marktwain
On 9 August 2018, a Cheri Bentham was waiting for a package to be delivered at her semi-rural residence on Hoo Shoo Too road, next to the Amite River. It was afternoon and about 93 degrees in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
A white man, about 5'6″ appeared at her door, and started to make some suggestive and alarming comments. He said he had been watching her house. From wbrz.com:
Benham was busy trying to get her three small dogs back inside when she noticed the man was touching himself inappropriately outside his clothes. As his remarks became lewder, she ran back inside and grabbed her .22 caliber snake rifle.
“I shot towards the ground and screamed at him to not come back,” she said. “He left out of here with a hot foot. He was like a bank robber, he was gone.”
The rifle Cheri Benham used appears to be the ubiquitous Marlin model 60. It was topped with a red dot, or reflex sight of some kind. The Marlins are noted for their accuracy, dependability, and affordability.
Some may question the necessity of the warning shot. The situation may have been alarming. It did not appear to be life-threatening. While the warning shot may or may not have been necessary, the man left quickly, knowing that Cheri was armed and not afraid of using her rifle.
Warning shots have some negative potential. The bullet has to go somewhere. In a tense situation, the shooter may not be certain the shot
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Somebody’s clutching at their pearls: firing down into ground with a .22 or a shotgun with birdshot pretty well nullifies the energy and therefore the danger to bystanders.
She did the right thing and I hope they catch the pervert before the idiot runs into somebody with less patience and good aim.
Cant argue with the results.
Was it an Assault .22 rifle, that is dangerous looking, and able to be quickly converted to fully automatic, that fires 300 rounds every time you pull the trigger?
She should trade in her three small dogs for one big one.
Shouldn’t she have shot a shotgun into the air? I read that somewhere. //sarc
It may have come from the famous Joe Biden School of Self Defense.
The perp brought it on himself.
He was taunting her and planning to do something vile to her.....
She had to shoot.
The pervy perp was touching himself. Appropriately, the woman used her “snake rifle.” Had there been a second shot, a fair idea of where she may have aimed.
You have to ask yourself what would Joe Biden do? (sarc) ;-)
Check with the gun experts like Brian Williams and Chris Matthews.
I believe it was 1950 and I was only a few months old, Pop was fighting a fire in the Umatilla National Forest and my Mom and all us kids were at the house below the fire tower. Mom and my siblings verified the story and Pop found the bear outside the house. Mom was fixing dinner and a black bear decided to see what was cooking. Mom was at the sink when the bear decided to come through the kitchen window. Mom grabbed an old Winchester model 62 Pop kept in the rack and started dumping rounds into it. Pop found it about 100 yards from the house with 8 rounds in the head and neck area.
“Snake Rifle”,,,
I wonder what She would have gotten for
Trouser Trout?
Ricochets are more common in .22 LR projectiles than for more powerful cartridges as the combination of unjacketed lead and moderate velocities allows the projectile to deflect – not penetrate or disintegrate – when hitting hard objects at a glancing angle. A .22 LR can ricochet off the surface of water at a low angle of aim. Severe injury may result to a person or object in the line of fire on the opposite shore, several hundred yards away.[18]
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18. Fadala, Sam (1989). The Book of the Twenty-Two (1 ed.). South Hackensack, New Jersey: Stoeger Publishing Company. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-88317-149-3. After the bullet glanced off of the water, its remaining velocity was 1195 fps. Only 43 fps were lost... The missile remains lethal after a ricochet.
She should have shot it off. That would have been instructional.
“As his remarks became LEWDER...”
Should have read:
“As his remarks became MORE LEWD”
“Warning shots have some negative potential. The bullet has to go somewhere. In a tense situation, the shooter may not be certain the shot.”
All perverts (and other criminals) should heed this wise counsel.
Our secular, lawless culture is creating sexually out-of-control males like this perp, acting more and more like the zombies of the Walking Dead. Glad I’m armed.
“NOW GIT!” Still works when said while holding a loaded rifle.
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