OT: Had to draw my pistol today

No comment at this time as I'm busy cleaning (adult beverage) from my monitor. :)

technomaNge

I heard it was a collie and pit bull. It will tear your arm off, but then go for help.

Steve

Almost as good as the cat biting the power cord in 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'. Of course they just had a loud 'cat noise' and moved the chair to see what was supposed to be the black outline of the cat on the white carpet.

I've been chased by dogs while I'm on my bike, but they're usually someone's ill-behaved pet. Once, being chased by a small dog (some kind of terrier, I think), I stopped the bike, looked the dog in the eye, and said, "OK, you caught me, now what are you going to do with me?" The dog just looked confused and wandered away.

Cheers! Rich

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Cheers! Rich

Fellow had an evil spirit, perhaps?

You know, that could be useful to know. Might need that idea, some day.

.38 pistols are rather rare. Most handguns in that caliber are revolvers. Is it a .38 super?

It's good that you were armed. Glad you weren't hurt.

No, I use the term "pistol" loosely. It's a Ruger LCR revolver.

From another list:

I read one time where a guy always had trouble with a couple of dogs that would tip his garbage can over. He laid a large piece of chicken wire on the ground around the garbage can and hosed the ground down so it was good and wet. He hooked the chicken wire to the hot side of a extension cord that he plugged in and later heard the dogs yelping like mad. They were dancing on the wire but couldn't get away. He unplugged the wire and the dogs never came back.

Another fellow had an old Model T that he would take out once a month and drive about four or five miles an hour around a couple of blocks in a small town north of me. One dog in particular always had to chase him barking and snapping at one tire for the full trip. He wrapped a piece burlap around the tire and the next trip around the dogs teeth got hung up in the burlap. he could see it happen in his side view mirror so he stopped after the dog made two or three flips and that ended the dog from chasing him anymore.

I'm accustomed to referring to any handgun (revolver, semi-auto, or otherwise) as a pistol.

dictionary.com appears to agree with me.

SM is not familiar with firearms, obviously.

Steve

On farms they used to grab the offending dog by the tail and scrape a turpentine soaked corncob across their ass. They took of down the road yelping, and never came back.

Steve is not familiar with SM, obviously.

If you can get close enough to the offending dog, that is?

From what I've heard it was hard NOT to get close enough. They would be chasing the chickens or so busy digging up your crop that they didn't know what was about to happen.