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Living out in the boonies I don't usually see light in my trees at 430 AM, but I did this morning.
I got up to get something and I was walking back to my bedroom when I looked out of my living room, which has multiple large windows, across the large deck and noticed light on the trees. I did a double take to make sure it wasn't the moon, but it was only a certain area and it was not moonlight.
At that time, I figured the only way that light could be cast that way would be from my backyard or the woods behind my house, which has no lights (I intend to put one up on the house). So I figured someone was back there that should not be - no way to get there without trespassing and there are several hundred yards of my property/woods that a person would need to cross to get there.
So I got dressed, put on shoes, put on a bill cap and clipped my light to it, got the shotgun and racked a shell into the chamber, turn on the outside light by the door and stepped out. By that time the light had gone.
Turned out it was my neighbor at the upper end of my property leaving for work. He had parked his car just right such that the headlights shown thru my thinned woods (I cleared a lot of brush this last year) and it was shining over the top of my house (his driveway is about 50' higher than my house) and onto the trees on the other side of my house.
Looking back on it, yeah, that would do it.
I did clear my backyard just to make sure.
Got back inside and went to clear the shotgun and noticed the safety was still on- I leave it that way even though there is nothing in the chamber when inside the house. I need to remember that and train with it more; if I had to pull the trigger I might not have figured out the safety was on until too late.
I also need to get more lights up outside.
I got up to get something and I was walking back to my bedroom when I looked out of my living room, which has multiple large windows, across the large deck and noticed light on the trees. I did a double take to make sure it wasn't the moon, but it was only a certain area and it was not moonlight.
At that time, I figured the only way that light could be cast that way would be from my backyard or the woods behind my house, which has no lights (I intend to put one up on the house). So I figured someone was back there that should not be - no way to get there without trespassing and there are several hundred yards of my property/woods that a person would need to cross to get there.
So I got dressed, put on shoes, put on a bill cap and clipped my light to it, got the shotgun and racked a shell into the chamber, turn on the outside light by the door and stepped out. By that time the light had gone.
Turned out it was my neighbor at the upper end of my property leaving for work. He had parked his car just right such that the headlights shown thru my thinned woods (I cleared a lot of brush this last year) and it was shining over the top of my house (his driveway is about 50' higher than my house) and onto the trees on the other side of my house.
Looking back on it, yeah, that would do it.
I did clear my backyard just to make sure.
Got back inside and went to clear the shotgun and noticed the safety was still on- I leave it that way even though there is nothing in the chamber when inside the house. I need to remember that and train with it more; if I had to pull the trigger I might not have figured out the safety was on until too late.
I also need to get more lights up outside.