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Scenario: 02-2005
The Mountain
Hideaway Scenario
It is a warm mid-afternoon on the first Friday in
May. You have departed work early to go
to the mountain hideaway cabin that you & your family own. It is located on 10 acres of hardwood and
evergreens and has a commanding view of the mountain peaks. The lane to your family cabin is 100 yards
from a little-traveled county road and the nearest small town is about 8 miles
away. Neighboring summer cabins,
although you cannot see them, are approximately 300 yards on each side of your
cabin. Behind your property are state
game lands used by hunters.
Your wife & 2 adolescent children will arrive about
6:00 PM. You park your Jeep Grand
Cherokee around back and since this is your first visit of the year, you turn
on the electricity and then walk around the cabin to see if there has been any
damage caused by the winter snows or by vandals who have been known to break in
and occupy summer cabins. You see no
evidence of damage or willful destruction so you unlock the back door &
make yourself at home.
You note that the well pump is filling the hot water tank
and you then check the telephone and find that the line is dead. Believing that a tree branch probably downed
the line, you make a mental note to use your wife’s cell phone to call the
telephone company. Not knowing if your
wife remembered to bring her key, you unlock the front door. Since you have a couple of hours until your
family is scheduled to arrive, you go to the desk in your bedroom & boot up
your Hewlett-Packard laptop computer hoping to get some work done before they
arrive. About 2 hours later, the sun
has set behind the mountains and dusk is approaching.
From your bedroom you hear voices at the front porch. Thinking that your family has arrived, you
begin to shut down the computer.
Suddenly, from inside the cabin, you hear a male voice shout, “Anybody
in this f---ing place?” followed by another male voice saying, “I think we’ve
got this place all to ourselves.”
Not recognizing either of the voices and knowing that your
family is to arrive at any time, you must take immediate action. You are armed with a Ted Yost prepared Colt
Lightweight Commander loaded with 9 rounds of Remington 185 grain BJHP ammo in
a Milt Sparks Versa Max 2 holster on your strong side. An additional Wilson Combat 8 round mag is
in a Sparks #17 mag pouch on your left side.
You also have a Spyderco Endura folder clipped to your off-side pocket.
How would you handle this situation?
The Mountain Hideaway Response
BY: EAF in Atlanta
Well,
isolated or not, I’d be reluctant to keep the front door unlocked. So that would be the first thing I’d
change. Obviously, this isn’t the first
time I had been here and there would always be the chance that the phone in the
cabin wouldn’t work. If my wife didn’t
get a phone call from me she was to presume the phone didn’t work and to honk
the horn in a certain way on arriving to let me know it’s her and to unlock the
door.
As
for me, I’d take a trunk gun with me since I’m alone on the woods and a long
arm is nice to have against some of the critters that inhabit the woods like
bears and such. And, as it turns out, I
just happen to keep my trunk gun in the bedroom when I’m not using it. Quite handy, it turns out, since I’m being
home invaded.
Since
I know that I’m out numbered and my wife is on the way, I’m going to elect to
exit stage right, grab the trunk gun and take a header out the bedroom
window. No challenges, no shooting,
just un-ass the A.O. Work my way into
the woods, all the time, trying to figure out how many of the home invaders
there are, where their vehicle is, and work my way to the road that leads to
the cabin. My plan is to intercept my
wife before she gets to the house, drive away and call the police or the
sheriff. If I can disable the home
invader’s car with the bayonet on my trunk gun (yes, my trunk gun has a
bayonet), the better, but my primary mission is to keep my wife and family from
walking into an ambush.
Once
I reach the road, I’d camp out and wait until my wife shows up or they leave
whichever comes first. I’d flag down
the wife, and drive to the police or sheriff.
If the home invaders left before my wife arrived, I’d do the same
thing. Who knows, maybe they just
murdered someone in my cabin and I wouldn’t want the wife to walk into
that. Nope--go find the gentlemen with
the badges and let them search the cabin.
Heck, after an evening like that, I might even consider selling the
cabin!!