Thread: How do you sleep at night?

.45 Tucked between the mattress and semi-auto shotgun next to the bed

Originally Posted by Tactical SS

Reasons?

You're asleep, you hear a bump. Your adrenaline kicks in as you wake up, you reach for your gun, you get up ready to defend life and limb... then you discharge your weapon "accidentally" because you were still half asleep.

Seen it happen before, will happen again. Most the time there wasn't even a threat. Give yourself 2 steps to gain your surroundings before hand touches steel.

That's why I don't stash it cocked and locked. Merely with a magazine there. Gives me time to clear my head before I even think about the bang switch. I have to consciously load the thing first.

Originally Posted by Phonelesscord

You're asleep, you hear a bump. Your adrenaline kicks in as you wake up, you reach for your gun, you get up ready to defend life and limb... then you discharge your weapon "accidentally" because you were still half asleep.

Seen it happen before, will happen again. Most the time there wasn't even a threat. Give yourself 2 steps to gain your surroundings before hand touches steel.

You're asleep, you hear a bump. You wake up to see two guys standing over your bed where you and your wife are sleeping. You get up to take a couple of steps to get your gun and the next thing you know you're sitting on a cloud playing a harp.

Actually, I have special lighting, two dogs, and an alarm system etc. and that scenario isn't likely to happen to me, so that and your comments are probably the way to go.

Originally Posted by Phonelesscord

You're asleep, you hear a bump. Your adrenaline kicks in as you wake up, you reach for your gun, you get up ready to defend life and limb... then you discharge your weapon "accidentally" because you were still half asleep.

Seen it happen before, will happen again. Most the time there wasn't even a threat. Give yourself 2 steps to gain your surroundings before hand touches steel.

+ makes it a little more difficult to sleepshoot

I ware my "Tactical" PJs so i'm always ready for any situation

For the record, the sleeping naked part, although true, is just made to be funny. I sleep with my Glock 19 with 15 115gr JHP in the magazine and 1 in the chamber ready to go in between the 2 layers of mattress. I also keep my 870 under the bed with 6 rounds 00 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber ready to go.

Originally Posted by Phonelesscord

You're asleep, you hear a bump. Your adrenaline kicks in as you wake up, you reach for your gun, you get up ready to defend life and limb... then you discharge your weapon "accidentally" because you were still half asleep.

Seen it happen before, will happen again. Most the time there wasn't even a threat. Give yourself 2 steps to gain your surroundings before hand touches steel.

Luckily for me, I don't have to worry about that. I have a Glock, so my hand never touches steel, it just touches polymer

Originally Posted by Gunner3456

You're asleep, you hear a bump. You wake up to see two guys standing over your bed where you and your wife are sleeping. You get up to take a couple of steps to get your gun and the next thing you know you're sitting on a cloud playing a harp.

Actually, I have special lighting, two dogs, and an alarm system etc. and that scenario isn't likely to happen to me, so that and your comments are probably the way to go.

Exactly, what do you do when that worst case scenario happens, where they don't break down the door or break a window, but they pick the lock or cut the window, enter silently and are in your room without warning until you hear them too close? Having to reach and load your gun is too many steps in that scenario, just having to grab wherever it is even with it ready to fire might not even be enough time. But in a situation where milliseconds count, I won't trust my gun being seconds away from use.

If I do have time for that, I'm grabbing my shotgun from under the bed and handing my handgun off to my wife while she calls 911.

Originally Posted by Phonelesscord

You're asleep, you hear a bump. Your adrenaline kicks in as you wake up, you reach for your gun, you get up ready to defend life and limb... then you discharge your weapon "accidentally" because you were still half asleep.

Seen it happen before, will happen again. Most the time there wasn't even a threat. Give yourself 2 steps to gain your surroundings before hand touches steel.

A man's got to know his limitations.

I lock my door at night, I suppose I would kill anybody that went through the locked door.

The creepy young Jerry Garcia look alike would be very disturbing.

The hot blonde with the H&K UMP is pleasant to look at.

I would rather fight Jerry instead of the blonde as I would not be as distracted fighting Jerry.

Originally Posted by Gunner3456

I sleep like a log. My wife will protect me.

Wow that would keep me up 24-7 365.



Thanks
Scott Hannah

i have one of the nature wave sound machines. helps me sleep quite well.

I envy you crosse, I have been using a fan to drown out the snoring of my wife's Boston terrier for years!

Originally Posted by Bruce

I lock my door at night, I suppose I would kill anybody that went through the locked door.

The creepy young Jerry Garcia look alike would be very disturbing.

The hot blonde with the H&K UMP is pleasant to look at.

I would rather fight Jerry instead of the blonde as I would not be as distracted fighting Jerry.

I wouldnt go so far as to say "hot" blond...Maybe an exwife blond, you know the "not a keeper" type? lol She is average at best. 6/10.

I keep my FS2000 on one nightstand and the other has a SPAS 12 and KRISS Super V with light and laser pointed at my locked door and my dog is right outside. Oh I forgot to add my heavy body armor I can throw on in under 30 seconds. A bad guy coming in with a handgun would lose all day long and twice on Sunday.

But again this is Oregon...Not Compton, Oakland, Watts, Detroit, etc...

Originally Posted by Bruce

I envy you crosse, I have been using a fan to drown out the snoring of my wife's Boston terrier for years!

twice a month, the trash guy and the recycling guy pick up an hour from each other at 6am and 7am. those days I have a pair of earplugs and my shooting muffs just in case...blocks out more than just a bump in the night, annoying beeping in the morning.

but i have a tiny maltesse dog...darn right yappiest dog that ever lived. but will wake up and cause a commotion at the slightest tremor on the perimeter of the house. I have a P220ST in a wilderness safe packer and a winchester 1300 pump near my bed.

Originally Posted by Gunner3456

You're asleep, you hear a bump. You wake up to see two guys standing over your bed where you and your wife are sleeping. You get up to take a couple of steps to get your gun and the next thing you know you're sitting on a cloud playing a harp.

Actually, I have special lighting, two dogs, and an alarm system etc. and that scenario isn't likely to happen to me, so that and your comments are probably the way to go.

If you don't have time to take 2 steps to grab a gun, you're already screwed

Originally Posted by 2gr8dgs

I have a ritual that I prepare most nights before going to bed. I put these Items at the ready. the one pic is what I have in the little black bag for a grab & go situation. Mind you, there are no kids in the house, just me & the wife. I would like to see other peoples set ups, comments, or advise on what to bed down with, when things go bump in the night.

That looks like the Compton, CA setup.

Room setup is simple: Maglight on the nightstand, Browning hi-power in the top drawer (decocked with one in the chamber). In the home office, adjacent to the front door, there's a loaded Ruger 10/22 stashed in the 4" space between a bookcase and the wall.

Almost forgot - we also have a shepherd that sleeps at the foot of the bed.

A year ago, the doorbell rang at 3am. We live at the end of a very long secluded driveway. That was no mistaken visitor ... probably some tweaker wanting to see if someone was home. Luckily, I wasn't on the road travelling. By the time I got to the door with my rifle clearly in sight, and the dog growling and hyper alert ... the threat had dispersed. From that night forward, the wife had no issues with loaded firearms in the home.

Originally Posted by KeepWatchman

That looks like the Compton, CA setup.

And that cellphone has sure taken a beatin'! ... You must surely be out of your contract by now, right? lol

Before I got a CCL, twenty years ago, I had a Colt's Trooper (4", .357Mag) with tritium sights and a German Shepard with or near me when I went to bed.
For the past twenty years, since I got a CCL, I have a Galco Belt bag with a Walther PPK (.380) with tritium sights, wallet, keys, Minimag flashlight, Victorinox knife and several Siberian Huskies with or near me.

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