LOL - we still are that, and I was equally at home behind an apron
and a day out hunting with a 30.06 ..:)
My husband once taught me how to field strip a .45 with my eyes shut.
There was a psycho prowler terrorizing the women in my neighborhood in South Dakota for weeks.
I FULLY was capable of pulling the trigger and hitting a quite vital spot if he dared enter my humble abode...I had 2 little boys (7 & 8) to protect, and was about to deliver my daughter.
He tried to pry off MY bedroom window screen one night, and thereafter I was not only on guard full time (backed up by my 2 dogs, who usually barked when he was nearby) but also "stood by" ready to fire when my young neighbor gal - a waitress living alone with her mother - came home across the alley after work.
The police held a neighborhood meeting after my daughter was born, and asked if I would "bait" him - I agreed, but moved soon after to Fairbanks, Alaska.
The Perp, however, was caught when he made the mistake of trying to climb in the bathroom window of my dear friend next door - Susie was also a military wife - and her Collie took hold of his leg and held him until the police got there!
He was an Indian, gettng his thrills at our expense...with his skills, he once entered the entry screened porch of a gal behind me, whose alternator he had removed the night before so she could not flee him.
She had a POLICEMAN with K-9 dog inside!
He cut the screen and slightly opened the locked kitchen door to prove his superiority - and then faded away - without the K-9 alerting!!
All those months, the police had patrol cars in the immediate city area, in case...and he had always eluded them in the hilly area by us.