The only difference is, I added a vented barrel shroud and a shell holder on the stock. It makes noise and bites, too.
The flood gates at the Southern Border will be open by the end of the week, I'm sure. Plan accordingly. :(
Also:
A Burglar Reveals 15 Trade Secrets
https://www.thedollarstretcher.com/home/burglar-reveals-trade-secrets/
Go to a pound and buy the first medium or large dog that barks at you like crazy, but then warms up to you after a bit.
We have a rescue mutt, and she will literally chase down and bite anyone that threatens her, and she can sense people walking the street 20 feet away. She’s got another 10 years of life in her, and is an excellent investment for the $100 we paid.
She also loves us.
DIY home security systems are very easy to set up these days and cost-effective. You DO need to pay the monthly fee, though, but you save the installer’s fee. I really like the Honeywell Total Connect system. It has a panel that looks like a large tablet that you can put on a counter somewhere. It is all secure wireless, so you don’t need to run wires throughout the house. It is also a Samsung SmartThings hub, too, so you can control SmartThings devices such as light switches and plug-in sockets as well. It also connects to Honeywell sirens/sounders and to their smoke alarms.
There’s a similar system from a company called “2Gig,” but I liked going with the Honeywell brand (although they DID spin that business off to a new company called Resideo).
Also, 3M makes a film that can harden your windows, so that the Molotov cocktail is more likely to set your porch on fire, rather than your living room.
This isn't fool-proof. My oldest son knew a kid who was as dumb as a box of bricks but he knew how to jumper out alarm systems and never got caught.
Btw, my oldest quit hanging out with him pretty quickly.
The only difference is, I added a vented barrel shroud and a shell holder on the stock. It makes noise and bites, too.
I was thinking the same thing about the border.
Motion sensor lights may not be all that effective when you consider that more burglaries happen during the day than at night.
The couple next to us have a sign with an AR-15 on it that says, “We don’t call 911”
No, no, no, no!!!!
30 years ago, when lights were expensive to run, this made sense, but now that LED's make lighting up your house cheap, it's just stupid advice.
What you want is: dusk to dawn lights.
You need to make your house to look like a hard target FROM A DISTANCE, so the bad guys decide to pass your house by and go for an easier target.
If you keep your exterior lights on all the time (dusk to dawn), that's exactly what they'll do.
But, if you use motion detector lights, the bad guys will approach your home and the lights won't come on till after they have mentally committed to robbing your house.
The cost to running an outdoor LED floodlight dusk to dawn is less than $5 a year. So, the cost of keeping your house lit up with multiple floodlights is what? $40-$60 a year. Cheap insurance.
Bkmk. Thanks!
On a S-span book review show the guest was Nancy Grace. She’s a little over the top, but the book she wrote is, “Don’t Be A Victim”. Some of the tips she mentioned were excellent. I was going to order one, but forgot. This reminds me, so I guess I’ll do that.
I have Beware of Dog signs at three places on the property and house. It has worked great with first time visitors and delivery people.
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Chow chows are awesome guard dogs.
They are not “scare the intruder off” dogs—they are guard dogs.
They will not bark, but they leap silently out of nowhere like cats—intruders will never see them coming.
One option is to have a loud dog if you want to scare off intruders, then a couple of chow chows for internal security if they don’t get the message the first time.
Chow chows are awesome guard dogs.
They are not “scare the intruder off” dogs—they are guard dogs.
They will not bark, but they leap silently out of nowhere like cats—intruders will never see them coming.
One option is to have a loud dog if you want to scare off intruders, then a couple of chow chows for internal security if they don’t get the message the first time.
If you buy security cameras, make sure it is 4K. Lesser cameras can’t pick up car license plates, and are useless at night for recording what is happening.
Later.
Thanks