Sleeping with a J Frame
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amazingflapjack
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Sleep-the only time to zone out.
I "slept" with a M-10 4" in a holster strapped to the head rung of my army issue bunk bed in SEA. It worked for me there, and it had too. Fortunately, it was only every other night most of the time. I would suggest providing yourself with an early warning system of some kind. It could be an alarm system, or as simple as a good stout piece of fishing line strung with something noisy, or that switched on a stereo along with a light. Look at your home from the viewpoint of a perpetrator, and you'll come up with something. There are motion detectors available that can start outside, and can be added inside as needed. When I hear folks talk about home defence, it sometimes sounds like they are building A TRAP SO THAT THEY CAN SHOOT SOMEBODY. That is not the goal. Good outside lighting, some alarm company signs and stickers, and something that will force an intruder to make noise or break something. Those slide bolt locks, and clamps on window frames are inexpensive and good, but I would not put my trust in just one thing, and I would use the weapon I was most comfortable with, that would be something I could put into use immediately, for me that's going to be some kind of revolver that will enable me to retrieve the carbine or shotgun that was mentioned earlier. Above all, communicate with your family, and pray. He never sleeps or slumbers. Flapjack
I "slept" with a M-10 4" in a holster strapped to the head rung of my army issue bunk bed in SEA. It worked for me there, and it had too. Fortunately, it was only every other night most of the time. I would suggest providing yourself with an early warning system of some kind. It could be an alarm system, or as simple as a good stout piece of fishing line strung with something noisy, or that switched on a stereo along with a light. Look at your home from the viewpoint of a perpetrator, and you'll come up with something. There are motion detectors available that can start outside, and can be added inside as needed. When I hear folks talk about home defence, it sometimes sounds like they are building A TRAP SO THAT THEY CAN SHOOT SOMEBODY. That is not the goal. Good outside lighting, some alarm company signs and stickers, and something that will force an intruder to make noise or break something. Those slide bolt locks, and clamps on window frames are inexpensive and good, but I would not put my trust in just one thing, and I would use the weapon I was most comfortable with, that would be something I could put into use immediately, for me that's going to be some kind of revolver that will enable me to retrieve the carbine or shotgun that was mentioned earlier. Above all, communicate with your family, and pray. He never sleeps or slumbers. Flapjack
Gregwilson357
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I sleep with my 686 under my pillow. I like having it close just in case
Allen-frame
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Robert, I am saying I sleep with the 640-1 basically under my pillow.
I have 3 pillows on my bed and the gun is not directly under my head.
The trigger pull is un modified and rather stiff. I do not worry about
inadvertently pulling it and discharging the gun.
The lasergrips give excellent low light pointability and can discourage
an intruder just by having it pointed into his face.
The Glaser safety ammunition guards against any over penetration
or ricochet, but is proven to be an effective wound creator/stopper.
This is just what I have come up with and am comfortable with.
Bump in the night, up, pistol in hand. Finger off trigger until actual
threat is detected. Laser sight on or off with a press of my middle
finger on the grip.
I practice at the range with it also.
Be safe..
Allen
I have 3 pillows on my bed and the gun is not directly under my head.
The trigger pull is un modified and rather stiff. I do not worry about
inadvertently pulling it and discharging the gun.
The lasergrips give excellent low light pointability and can discourage
an intruder just by having it pointed into his face.
The Glaser safety ammunition guards against any over penetration
or ricochet, but is proven to be an effective wound creator/stopper.
This is just what I have come up with and am comfortable with.
Bump in the night, up, pistol in hand. Finger off trigger until actual
threat is detected. Laser sight on or off with a press of my middle
finger on the grip.
I practice at the range with it also.
Be safe..
Allen
CrossRifles2008
Member
A Beretta 92FS is my bunk mate at the present.... Rather have a 686 though.
exfebee
Member
I have nightmares & bad dreams at least once a week. You know: spiders, snakes, being shot, involved in shootings, the grim reaper, etc.. stuff like that, where i'm half awake & half asleep. With a gun under my pillow or in bed with me i would really hate it if i woke up & found i had shot my wife. Or, in the case of you real lucky guys -- your girlfriends. Wife, or "again girlfriends" get up & go to the bathroom at times during the night. Would hate to blow one of them away in the darken room. Geee... who would do the cooking & wash then ?
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sipowicz
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I don't think that is a very good idea....because there will be a time when you forget it's there after you wake up and leave your room...I have two kids, 2 and 5 and never leave the gun within reach....one brain fart is all it takes for a lifetime of regret...the gun is on me during the day....and when I come home it goes up on a very high shelf in my bedroom so I can get to it without having to open the safe.
Sorry DB....no one liners...this one is for the children...
Geronimo Jim
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My dad was in law enforcement and slept with a S&W under his pillow for 40 years. Although not in law enforcement, I have slept with a revolver under my pillow for about the same or longer.
Knightrider03m
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I've slept with my J frame often. Sometimes when I sleep in places other than my on bed, I have leave my J frame in my pocket. No harm done.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
From a baby up I was raised with guns. Dad had them, no doubt his dad etc. To respect my wifes wishs, I lock up my model 40 and bedside m&p the few times grand kids visit.
I remember as a small boy I found a key above the folks bedroom door sill. It fit a dresser drawer and pa`s revolver was in it! (Still cant figure what made me look up there at 7 years old!) I never let on I knew and lived!
I suppose if I was younger, had kids at home and worried about it I might have such a key for a locked drawer around my neck or wrist?
I remember as a small boy I found a key above the folks bedroom door sill. It fit a dresser drawer and pa`s revolver was in it! (Still cant figure what made me look up there at 7 years old!) I never let on I knew and lived!
I suppose if I was younger, had kids at home and worried about it I might have such a key for a locked drawer around my neck or wrist?
crstrode
Member
There goes the neighborhood
If you feel the need to sleep with a loaded gun, the best option is moving to a better neighborhood.
If you feel the need to sleep with a loaded gun, the best option is moving to a better neighborhood.
luangtom
US Veteran
The Model 442 is shrouded, so it will be safer to "sleep with" than those with an exposed hammer.
Y'all never mentioned how old yer children are, but as soon as they can understand and comprehend, take 'em out and fire into a gallon-jug of water and impress upon them that is what happens when a head is hit by a round. I know that when my father did that for my two sons, when they were 4 and 7, it was a life-lasting impression they have not forgotten and they are both in their 30's now. Teach the children well.
I found that hiding things from them makes them all the more apt to seek the forbidden out. So, teach them young and teach them well.
I know that I was proud in over-hearing my youngest tell his friend, "We cannot take my dad's guns out and look at them without his permission. They are too dangerous for us to play with." Made me proud that he learned and remembered.
The "Eddy Eagle" program from the NRA teaches good lessons for youngsters.
Y'all never mentioned how old yer children are, but as soon as they can understand and comprehend, take 'em out and fire into a gallon-jug of water and impress upon them that is what happens when a head is hit by a round. I know that when my father did that for my two sons, when they were 4 and 7, it was a life-lasting impression they have not forgotten and they are both in their 30's now. Teach the children well.
I found that hiding things from them makes them all the more apt to seek the forbidden out. So, teach them young and teach them well.
I know that I was proud in over-hearing my youngest tell his friend, "We cannot take my dad's guns out and look at them without his permission. They are too dangerous for us to play with." Made me proud that he learned and remembered.
The "Eddy Eagle" program from the NRA teaches good lessons for youngsters.
My bed has a flat headboard behind it so my pistol stays on that at night but I have no kids in the house. I also have 2 other handguns in easy reach in different loctions in my home.
When my Grandkids come to visit all of my guns are locked in the gun safe because I couldn't live with a bad incident involving them.
When my Grandkids come to visit all of my guns are locked in the gun safe because I couldn't live with a bad incident involving them.
da gimp
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I don't think that is a very good idea....because there will be a time when you forget it's there after you wake up and leave your room...I have two kids, 2 and 5 and never leave the gun within reach....one brain fart is all it takes for a lifetime of regret...the gun is on me during the day....and when I come home it goes up on a very high shelf in my bedroom so I can get to it without having to open the safe.
Sorry DB....no one liners...this one is for the children...
caught my 3 year old granddaughter on top of the fridge the other day,she'd climbed onto the kitchen island, then onto the fridge to get to some candy bars her mom had put there. I keep my meds up there & had several arguements in the past with the wife on someone moving a cranky old man's daily meds.... now we know it was the GK.
my S&W mod 36 (with 5 Plus P .38spec Win Silvertips in it)was on top of the cabnet over the fridge, it's now on top of the china cabnet & 3 Winchester child proof keyed trigger locks are due in tomorrow @ our local gunstore. A dear friend & lodge bro's son used his dad's loaded house shotgun to kill his best friend while playing cops & robbers with it. A good piece of Jim died that day, he NEVER smiles & laughs like he used to, & he'd much rather to have died than that boy, another friend's son.
Just an old man's thoughts on being very careful.......
be safe, enjoy life, journey well........
da gimp
OFC, Mo. Chapter
Well, these day's there's only me in the house. So since she died, I've got a Sigma .40 with a lazer sight under her pillow.
I would re-adjust if I had my kids or grandkids around. I've got loaded weapons within convenient reach otherwise.
I would re-adjust if I had my kids or grandkids around. I've got loaded weapons within convenient reach otherwise.
G.T. Smith
US Veteran
I have guns from the side of the bed, to the living room, to the kitchen and one somewhere around my vehicle at all times. I ain't got no kids at home any more, so I can have a loaded .357 or .38 spl. or 12 ga. loaded and ready anywhere I choose. I have two large dogs, and even they have guns.
Peace,
gordon
P.S. Since so many people on this forum, myself included, date their guns, I say we may as well sleep with them too! hahahahahahaha 1
Peace,
gordon
P.S. Since so many people on this forum, myself included, date their guns, I say we may as well sleep with them too! hahahahahahaha 1
Homes in the "better" neighborhoods are often targeted by home invaders. Who wants to break in some old shack where they ain't got nothin' worth stealing?
