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by The Annoyed Man
Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:20 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations
Replies: 40
Views: 9605

Re: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations

Interblog wrote:
chasfm11 wrote: ... I get it from the OP that having high end electronics visible can change the remote possibility of being a victim in an RV significantly. But we've had our RV since 2004, have over 60K miles on it, driving it all over the country and have never come close to an incident in a "camped" situation. I've tried to query my RV neighbors within that same timeframe and have yet to hear even a secondhand story about an incident while parked.
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Instagram might make you a believer.
;-)

Retrospectively, I realize that it would have been to my own benefit, and to the benefit of other people by establishing fact-based perspective, to create a small spreadsheet to capture the basic details of the break-ins that vanners in particular have historically reported on social media. Those reports formed the basis for what I do know about the general modis operandi - for instance, the reports that vehicle invaders most often enter through the driver's door, which is something that I would not have predicted.
The only problem with such a spreadsheet is that the number of reported incidents are not statistically valuable without knowing the total sample size. If, for example, 100 people report incidents, that sounds like a lot. But if it is 100 reported out of a sample of 100,000 viewers, that’s a statistically small enough number to not mean that much. It might even be lower than the number of reported residential burglaries for a similar suburban sample size.

Also, how affluent looking is your RV? I remember a cop friend of mine telling me that the B&E rate in rich neighborhoods was far higher than in poor neighborhoods. Poor people dont’ have anything worth stealing.
by The Annoyed Man
Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:13 am
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations
Replies: 40
Views: 9605

Re: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations

Generally speaking, I’m not much of a believer in signs. If you stop to think about it, the only factor in the OP’s scenario that doesn’t apply in my own home is seclusion. OTH, I live in a very quiet suburban neighborhood where people tend to keep to themselves, and there is some distance between the houses. If I thought those kinds of signs - whatever the content - were effective, my house would be festooned with them. It’s not, and for good reason.

“This house defended by Smith & Wesson”, and other signs like that are simply advertising that say “guns available to steal inside this house”. And I don’t believe quoting chapter and verse of the law will matter either. Remember? They are law-breakers. They don’t care about your stinkin’ laws. What’s my first line of defense? Two large dogs who don’t like unaccompanied strangers. Their bark says “anyone who wants to come in here is going to have to face me before they can leave......and once in, they’ll pray they can leave with their dangly parts still attached.” I have a home alarm system, and external surveillance cameras, but that barking is what first alerts me to a possible threat.

I realize that a home security system may not be of practical use for an RV. However, dogs love to travel. Get yourself a good one. They provide companionship as well as perimeter security. He or she will hear or smell bad juju long before you are aware of it, and it will give you time to get to and deploy whatever your chosen firearm happens to be.

A thief who sneaks up on your RV in the middle of the night may not have any qualms about breaking in while you’re there, but he’s going to be mightily discouraged by the sound of a dog that sounds like it’s barking steel bricks. If all goes well, the thief will leave and look for a softer target, and you’ll never even have to confront him.
by The Annoyed Man
Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:21 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations
Replies: 40
Views: 9605

Re: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations

WTR wrote:Why give them a muzzle flash to aim at?
Flashhiders. Some of them work extraordinarily well. Suppressors not only work better, they make it harder to determine exactly your position.
by The Annoyed Man
Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:06 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations
Replies: 40
Views: 9605

Re: RV, camper van, site trailer, and work truck carry considerations

WTR wrote:
BBYC wrote:It sounds like one of the few situations where the shockwave non-shotgun would shine. In my case, my EDC is also nearby at night. If I was in a remote location, I would consider adding something with more reach if I could, like an AR pistol or carbine.
Why would you need something with more " reach " in a SD situation? Capacity maybe, but more reach?
The thought that occurs to me is, if those shooting at you are doing so from some distance, I’d like the ability to shoot back at that same distance. Obviously, that’s never really going to be an issue inside a house, where “reach” is defined in feet. But if you’re sitting in a parked RV, in the middle of a bean field out past Whoknowswhere, and you begin taking harassing fire from 100 yards away from people who see your lone RV in the middle of nowhere as easy pickens, I’d like to be able to effectively return that fire. But within the confines of an RV, it’s not the first weapon I’d reach for. For that, I’d want either a pistol, or as some have pointed out, something like a Shockwave. Once outside though, I’d rather have the AR, even if the distances aren’t that long.

Edited to add.... Springfield pistols are a good choice.

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